Applications now open: A second round of funding from Google will support another year of ¡Valle!, the tech training program aimed at increasing access to […]
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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CITRIS Town Hall 2020
Fork in the Road features CITRIS PI Colleen Naughton
Fork in the Road: A new UC Merced docuseries focuses on food supply research featuring UC Merced Prof. Colleen Naughton who received a CITRIS COVID-19 […]
2021 Women in Tech Symposium – The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction
UC Merced Brings NSF ‘Computer Science for All’ Program to Merced Schools
Computer Science for All: Campus outreach programs like the new START UP SJV help area teachers engage younger students with the sciences. The technology world […]
Marjorie S. Zatz
Special Assistant to the Chancellor
UC Merced
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Research partners from MITRE, CITRIS Health, UC Davis and UC Merced worked with health care teams to identify digital health barriers and co-create new ways to address them.
Creating Positive Feedback Loops to Accelerate the Energy Transition
Denise Payán
Denise D. Payán is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of California, Merced. She also directs the Community Health & Innovative Policy (CHIP) Lab.
Webinar: CITRIS Seed Funding – COVID-19 Response
Innovate to Grow at UC Merced
CITRIS Frontiers in Technology: 50th Earth Day Celebration 2020
Earth Day Talk Focuses on Ag Land and Water Regulations, Solutions
UC Merced Newsroom: The Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and UC Merced’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Group present an […]
CITRIS Frontiers in Technology: Ag-Food-Tech at UC Merced
CITRIS Frontiers in Technology: Julie Baker
UC Merced and Merced College Pair Up to Train Future Tech Researchers
UC Merced: Thirty-four students from San Joaquin Valley colleges are getting an opportunity to learn how to access and build careers in technology and research at a unique workshop designed to help diversify science-related fields.
California CIO Amy Tong joins CITRIS Advisory Board
State Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Director of the California Department of Technology Amy Tong has joined the advisory board of the Center for Information […]
How to improve tech opportunities for Central Valley students? ¡Valle de Exploración!
Bay Area native Erin Hestir followed a non-traditional path to a position in technology before becoming an engineering professor at UC Merced. Inspired by her […]
Reza Ehsani
Dr. Ehsani received his Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from the University of California, Davis. He was a faculty member at the Ohio State University and University of Florida before joining UC Merced in 2017. Currently, he is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Merced. His areas of research include engineering systems for agriculture, automation, and intelligent machines for production and postharvest of high value crops, precision agriculture, sensors for biotic and abiotic plant stress detection, mechanical harvesting machines, and robotic harvesting systems for fruit and nut trees.
CITRIS Merced PIs improve strawberry harvesting
UC Merced Newsroom: Harvesting is one of the most costly and labor-intensive operations in strawberry production. But a UC Merced engineering researcher is looking for ways […]
Lisa Yeo
Dr. Lisa Yeo is an Assistant Professor in the Ernest & Julio Management Program at UC Merced who works to help organizations understand how to safely govern the data and information they need to compete. By focusing on people and process, she believes that organizations can design and build information systems that make it easy to protect privacy and prevent security breaches without requiring extensive investments in security layers after the fact. Lisa holds a B. Math in Applied Math from the University of Waterloo and an MBA and PhD (Operations & Information Systems) from the University of Alberta.
Introduction to Drone/UAS/UAV Safety and Use
Fall 2018 CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series Begins
CITRIS showcases student Tech for Social Good
At a showcase in April at the Banatao Auditorium, undergraduate and graduate students presented their work developing novel tech ideas, addressing issues from gait impairment in the elderly and robots for disaster relief to connecting refugees to social services.