Many of California’s residents are tragically underserved.
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.
CARNIVORE: A Disruption-Tolerant System for Studying Wildlife
A pioneering study of pumas in the Santa Cruz Mountains will generate unprecedented insights into the behavior of one of the region’s top predators.
UC system generates $46.3B in economic activity for state
The University of California is a key economic catalyst for the state, generating $46.3 billion in annual economic activity for California.
Student competition at CITRIS: $45K in prizes
Our annual student competition for student-led proposals.
Jay Han has been named CITRIS Medical Director
Dr. Han is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the UC Davis School of Medicine.
UCSC-Cisco partnership in Network Management and Operations expands to UC Davis
The goal of the NMO Lab is to engage students and faculty by addressing real-world problems in complex networks, and in a variety of topics that include quality of service, customer support, intelligent and automated management of network devices.
Birthing Games: Assistive Technology Lab Delivers Serious Perinatal Games
When mothers can successfully nurse their children…measurable benefits are amplified over the entire lifetime of the child.
Employing mobile-phone-based games to empower individuals: Aug/Sept 2011 newsletter
We are very excited here at CITRIS about the innovative applications of basic information technologies and principles to some very resistant societal problems.
Fall 2011 i4Energy Seminar Series
The Fall series will begin in September.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Fall 2011
The fall Research Exchange schedule is now online
Megan Moodie
Research Interests
South Asian studies, feminist theory, reproductive and population politics, kinship, development, legal identities, tribal communities
Announcing our new initiatives – CITRIS newsletter for June 2011
CITRIS’s ‘Big Bets’ emerge out of our strategic planning work and address problems that are of significant importance. They each address a fundamental requirement for human life: Health, Sustainability and Energy.
Ken Goldberg appointed Faculty Director of the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative
New initiative will advance information and communications technologies for all individuals to enhance their awareness and participation in critical civic and societal issues.
Shaowei Chen
Professor of Chemistry, Faculty Director of UCSC COSMOS
UC Santa Cruz
David Culler appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy
The mission of i4Energy to facilitate and promote research on system-integrated enabling technologies that will achieve better energy efficiency, improved demand / response, and dramatic improvements in energy distribution.
Congratulations to this year’s Big Ideas winners
This year, CITRIS awarded five student-led proposals a total of $45,000 in prize money at the April 14 poster session for our annual White Paper competition
Letter from the Director for April/May
The world is full of valuable information that, if known, would save money, lives, and numerous resources. The trusses supporting our bridges contain information about when the aging structures will become dangerous to cross.
Fruitful partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark
New partnership between CITRIS and Innovation Center Denmark involves joint conferences and workshops as well as Visiting Scholarships
NSF’s Edward Seidel discussed Global Cyberinfrastructure on March 17
Modern science is undergoing a profound transformation as it aims to tackle the complex problems of the 21st Century.
Bruno Sanso
I am Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I have been part of the faculty since the Fall of 2001. During these years I have joined the effort of founding the department and starting its core programs. Before coming to Santa Cruz, I was a founding member of the Center for Statistics and Mathematical Software as well as of the Department of Scientific Computing and Statistics of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
Herbert Lee
Research Areas
Bayesian statistics, computer simulation experiments, spatial statistics, inverse problems, model selection and model averaging, nonparametric regression, neural networks, classification and clustering.
Lee earned a B.S. in mathematics from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Before coming to UCSC he was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University.
Athanasios Kottas
Athanasios Kottas’s research interests include Bayesian modeling and inference, Bayesian nonparametrics, survival analysis, semiparametric regression modeling, spatial statistics, and categorical data analysis. Kottas earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from the University of Ioannina, Greece, and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Connecticut. Before joining the UCSC faculty, he was a visiting assistant professor at Duke University.
Phokion Kolaitis
Phokion Kolaitis is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz and a Research Staff Member of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department (a.k.a. the Theory Group) at the IBM Almaden Research Center. From July 1997 to June 2001, he served as Chair of the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Cruz. From June 2004 to September 2008, he served as Senior Manager of the Computer Science Principles and Methodologies Department at the IBM Almaden Research Center (and while on leave of absence from UC Santa Cruz).
Gary Griggs
Gary Griggs’s research is focused on the coastal zone and ranges from coastal evolution and development, through shoreline processes, coastal engineering and coastal hazards. California has 1100 miles of coastline, 950 miles of which is eroding, and 32 million people who want to enjoy or live next to this geologically active zone. The tectonically active California coastline presents a range of interesting processes and problems within a few minutes or miles of campus.