UC Santa Cruz

Proximity to Silicon Valley makes UC Santa Cruz a natural place to engage the world’s industrial leaders and put new technology solutions to work. CITRIS Santa Cruz explores the design of new systems for immersive video and augmented reality, intelligent media for social good, and exploring the intersection of computing approaches from artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and software engineering with art and design. Creating new forms of interactive media with autonomous, generative, and dynamic responses to interaction has broad applications to fields from education, health, and entertainment to security and safety.

CITRIS Santa Cruz also examines the societal impact of CPS and IoT. Just as desktop computers and personal computing became commonplace decades ago, consumers are now acclimating to the idea that the objects they handle, the media they use, and the services they employ to process information are embedded with intelligence to improve everyday life.

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UCSC students present corporate-sponsored design projects

Posted on June 6, 2012

Low-cost LED light bulbs, a glass microphone, an online game, and an illuminated garment for bicycle riders are among the prototypes developed by the students.

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

Posted on June 4, 2012

This workshop is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

The RAVEN Surgical Robotic System: Robot-Assisted Tele-Surgery for Tele-Health

Proof-of-Concept for Robot Learning for Subtasks in Pediatric Appendectomy

Soraya Murray

Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media, cultural studies, and globalization in the arts. Her writings have been published in Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Flash Art, and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She is also a regular contributor to the international contemporary art journal ExitEXPRESS (Spain). She began teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2007.

Brent Haddad

Research Interests: Integrated Water Management, Regional Water Management, Water and Energy Policy, Political Economy, Renewable Energy

Camille Crittenden Joins CITRIS as Executive Director of Data and Democracy

Posted on May 31, 2012

Most recently, Crittenden served as Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law.

Intermittency-friendly and Super-efficient Tri-generation to Support Large-scale Penetration of Renewable Sources

This project is developing a micro testbed that includes a transcritical heat pump with both hot and cold storages.

Renewable Energy Nanogrid with Electric Vehicle Energy Storage

Researchers are creating the necessary facilities to test solutions to the challenges of a nanogrid-based society.

Using Existing Metering to Identify Energy Waste in Buildings

Developing and applying signal processing, feature extraction, and filtering methods to identify energy waste in buildings on UC campuses.

Digital Birth: Improving Perinatal Outcomes for Under-Served Californians through Game-Based Learning

This project aims to provide interactive education about labor support to potentially decrease the cost of maternity care while simultaneously improving perinatal outcomes.

Nicolas Davidenko

My research focuses on the cognitive, visual, and neural representations of objects and faces. I am particularly interested in how parametric characterizations of a stimulus space can inform our theories of representation.

Mircea Teodorescu

Electric Vehicles for Energy Storage to Stabilize Utility Grid

Posted on April 11, 2012

UCSC engineers are installing an EV recharge station and developing a smart-battery management interface system.

Projects for a cleaner, more fuel-independent way of life

Posted on April 11, 2012

The ingenuity, persistence, and commitment at CITRIS is helping California, and the nation, navigate a course to a cleaner, more peaceful way of life.