CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

UC Davis

UC Davis is renowned for cross-disciplinary research and teaching that draw upon 100 academic majors; 87 graduate programs; and professional schools in business, education, law, medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine. The campus connects the population-dense San Francisco Bay and Sacramento urban areas, natural resources in the Delta and the Sierra Nevada, and Central Valley agriculture. CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Davis brings expertise in engineering, nanoscience, law, and medicine to bear on complex challenges related to food, health, the environment, and society.

Just north of campus at the UC Davis Health System in Sacramento, the Center for Health and Technology and the Center for Virtual Care improve the quality of healthcare through education, training, and specialty care services. This 52,000 square-foot joint facility offers HD-equipped classrooms, four telehealth training exam rooms, an inpatient room, outpatient clinic, and a technology demonstration suite. The Center for Virtual Care features a full-size emergency room trauma bay, operating room, inpatient unit, six-bay simulation education area, exam rooms, and sophisticated training mannequins. The adjacent media production studio makes on-site development and distribution of instructional media possible. These advanced training centers connect UC researchers and practitioners with remote clinics across the state of California, enabling the delivery of life-saving care and innovative IT solutions.

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Environmental DNA Sampling Using UAVs

eDNA (environmental DNA, which is shed by all organisms into their environment) can be isolated from water samples and analyzed to detect the presence of […]

Q&A with Director Spanos

­­­Professor Costas Spanos became the fourth director of CITRIS on February 1, 2014. He is Andrew S. Grove Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering and […]

The RAVEN Surgical Robotic System

Robot-Assisted Tele-Surgery for Tele-Health Tele-surgery over longer distances is not yet possible. Time-delays, although brief, pose a major challenge and can lead to mechanical instabilities […]

Jay J. Han

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, UC Davis

Tod Stoltz

Director of Business Development, UC Davis Health

California Telehealth Network

One important asset in and contribution to the health care field is the California Telehealth Network (CTN). Led by CITRIS researchers at the UC Davis […]

Bevan Baas

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis

Kris Fallon

Kris Fallon is the Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Cultures at UC Davis, and serve as Associate Director of the Mellon Research Initiative in Digital […]

Poetry and Big Data Sets

“A poem is worth a thousand images.” – Anonymous Information technology has created a deluge of data; the challenge is how to understand it, how […]

Digital Media & Democratic Politics

My research examines the intersection of documentary film and digital media in the politically charged environment of the United States over the last decade. Given […]

Goloka Sahoo

Goloka’s interests include hydrodynamic, hydraulic and ecological modeling of environmental processes in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. He uses multi-dimensional process-based numerical models to provide information for Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) establishment and water budget planning. His hydrologic modeling incorporates artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms, and distributed physical models. His work demonstrates the effect of climate change on aquatic systems, hypolimnetic oxygenation and mixing of stratified lakes and reservoirs.