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.
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.
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.
Cormac Flanagan
Cormac Flanagan received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University College Dublin, Ireland in 1990; and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Rice University, in 1995 and 1997 respectively. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Computer
Science Department. Prior to joining UCSC in 2003, he was a Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Corporation, at Compaq Computer Corporation, and at Digital Equipment Corporation.
CITRIS Events
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Letter from the Director, Feb. 2011
For the last decade, we at CITRIS have focused our efforts there, developing intelligent technologies that help measure, track, and manage water, energy, and other key resources in innovative ways that benefit the economy, the environment, and our quality of life.
Jeopardy! viewing party at CITRIS a big hit
Hundreds of CITRIS researchers and students gathered at Sutardja Dai Hall on Feb. 16 to watch the game’s finale starring Watson.
CITRIS Research Wins Award
Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy’s research in “Tele-Immersion for Physicians” was recently awarded the CENIC 2011 Innovations in Networking Award for High Performance Research Applications.
Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Deployment and Adoption
Sunne Wright McPeak is the President and CEO of CETF, a statewide non-profit organization whose mission is to close the Digital Divide.
Spring 2011 Research Exchange schedule
The weekly series will begin on Wednesday, January 26
i4energy seminar series for Spring 2011
This weekly Friday lunch series begins again on Jan. 21
Prof. Andrew Fisher presents recent findings at Geophysical Meeting
An infiltration pond in California’s Pajaro Valley has become a laboratory where scientists are working to improve techniques for recharging the region’s depleted aquifer.
Alice Yang
Provost Alice Yang is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories. Provost Yang received a B.A. in English and American Literature and an M.A.T. in Social Studies from Brown University. She then received an MA and PhD in History from Stanford University. She has been a member of the UCSC faculty since 1993 and received an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2009.
Linda Werner
Linda Werner is a associate researcher in Computer Science and a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems Management at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her areas of interest include computer science education, pair programming, software engineering, and social issues.
She received her B.A. in mathematics in 1973 from Clark University in Worcester, MA. After working in industry for many years, she returned to school and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, San Diego.
Marilyn Walker
Marilyn Walker, is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), in recognition of her for fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog. Her current research includes work on computational models of dialogue interaction and conversational agents, analysis of affect, sarcasm and other social phenomena in social media dialogue, acquiring causal knowledge from text, conversational summarization, interactive story and narrative generation, and statistical methods for training the dialogue manager and the language generation engine for dialogue systems.
Hamid Sadjadpour
Hamid Sadjadpour received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on communication theory from University of Southern California (USC) in 1996. During his Ph.D., he worked part-time at Lincom corporations between February 1994 and July 1995 as a member of technical staff. During this period, he worked on the design of communication systems for satellite applications. Since December 1995, he was with AT&T research Lab as a senior technical staff member. He was promoted to Principal technical staff member in 2000.
Abel Rodriguez
I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I develop statistical methods for complex problems in biology, sociology and finance. My research interests include Bayesian nonparametric methods, machine learning, spatial temporal models, network models and extreme value theory.