The CITRIS Foundry has officially launched! This program for UC entrepreneurs is now open for applications, and initial teams are expected to be announced in mid-December.
UC Merced
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Merced continues its path-breaking work in bringing computational innovation to bear on societal problems. Recent developments include forecasting for solar resources, new sensors for environmental monitoring and assessment, intelligent autonomous systems to assist humans in difficult scenarios such as first-response rescue operations, enhanced energy management and controls in buildings, domestic water resource monitoring, and new SmartGRID applications. The Robotics Lab, established in 2007 by Professor Stefano Carpin, investigates topics related to multi-robot systems and humanoid robots. The MESA Lab is pioneering new applications for UAVs, including University of California-wide policies and training for unmanned aerial systems. UC Merced also hosts the Computer Graphics Lab, established in 2006 to pursue novel multidisciplinary research topics in interactive immersive environments; computer animation and simulation; and humanoid robotics.
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California’s Climate Change May Bring Extreme Weather
The state won’t see a superstorm like Hurricane Sandy, but UC Merced researchers monitoring precipitation and snow pack can have comparable effects.
Measuring Human Contributions to Urban CO2
Findings could help urban planners and policy makers help California’s cities minimize their contribution to climate change.
Quantifying Nature’s Aquatic Requirements
CITRIS researchers are using sensors to find out how much water steelhead trout need to thrive.
Using Data to Empower
We are finding exciting new ways to gather and analyze data that put powerful new handles on issues like ecosystem management.
Big Ideas at Berkeley contest – deadline is Nov. 6, 2012
The annual student-proposal award with $30K CITRIS prizes.
CITRIS Co-sponsoring Upcoming Workshop on Smart Cities
The aim of this conference is to tackle the question of “How Smart City approaches can be used to increase city attractiveness and city resilience?
Ashlie Martini
University of California, Merced
School of Engineering
Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall 2012 i4Energy Seminar Series
Positive Impact on California’s Healthcare, Energy, and Water
CITRIS attracts approximately 75 million dollars a year of fresh research funds to our campuses.
Towards Semantic Spatial Awareness: Robust Text Spotting for Assistive Technology Applications
This project will develop computer vision techniques that can be used to assist people whose are hampered by disability in movements.
CITRIS research to assist citizens in accessing legal texts
The system will recommend relevant information and also educate users about the databases.
Understanding Image-based Big Data using Human Computation
This project will enhance machine understanding of big image and video data sets by including human input as sub-routines inside of larger computational systems.
Metal-semiconductor Nano-hybrid Platforms for Thermoelectric Power Generation
A collaboration among UC Santa Cruz, Davis, and Merced to develop novel functional material platforms for thermoelectric power generators.
Making Great Ideas Into Great Devices
CITRIS is about more than just cranking out brilliant ideas; our mission is to see those ideas bear fruit in the real world.
Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES)
Since 2008, the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) has partnered with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation
California-Denmark Summer School Research Program on Renewable Energy in Denmark 2012
This workshop is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students.
Camille Crittenden Joins CITRIS as Executive Director of Data and Democracy
Most recently, Crittenden served as Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law.
Aggressively Duty-Cycling Buildings: The Next Frontier in Energy Efficiency
This project combines state-of-the-art sensor networking and novel data processing and control algorithms to determine where people are located inside buildings and actuate the heating and cooling systems accordingly.
Motion Interfaces for Physical Therapy
Real-time motion capture and immersive 3D computer-generated environments are emerging as a powerful approach to numerous challenges, including health care challenges in clinical work and therapy.
Alberto Cerpa’s Optical Turnstile
Tracking a building’s occupancy rate can help managers target where the heating and cooling go.
Projects for a cleaner, more fuel-independent way of life
The ingenuity, persistence, and commitment at CITRIS is helping California, and the nation, navigate a course to a cleaner, more peaceful way of life.
Poster session for Big Ideas on April 5
Please join us in learning about this year’s finalists for the $45K prize money.
CITRIS joins New Cities Foundation
NCF and CITRIS build on existing collaboration on the Foundation’s Task Force on Connected Commuting in Silicon Valley.