Monitoring the ecosystems of lakes and estuaries.
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.
CITRIS research to assist citizens in accessing legal texts
The system will recommend relevant information and also educate users about the databases.
Sensing CO2 Domes for Adaptive Management of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Exploring a new way to provide near real-time data of greenhouse gas production by integrating atmospheric modeling with a dense, surface-based observation network of anthropogenic and biogenic tracers.
Ronnie Lipschutz
Professor
UC Santa Cruz
Testbed Analytics for Renewable Microgrid Systems
This project focuses on the design, deployment and operation of microgrids for on-site renewable power generation.
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.
Proactive Legal Information Retrieval and Filtering
This research will assist citizens in accessing legal texts in a way that will simplify the process and make the retrieved data more relevant and timely.
Rashomon Project
Online tools for assembling multi-perspective chronologies
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.
UCSC students present corporate-sponsored design projects
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
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
Professor, Film and Digital Medis
UC Santa Cruz
Humanities, Media Studies, Digital Media Theory, Visual Culture
Brent Haddad
Professor, Environmental Studies and Director and Founder of the Center for Integrated Water Research
UC Santa Cruz
Social Sciences, Environmental Policy, Resource Economics, Water Policy
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.
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
Professor, Psychology
UC Santa Cruz
Social Sciences, Cognitive Mechanisms, Behavioral Experiments, Cognitive Mechanisms, Computational Modeling, Face Perception, Face Recognition, Memory-based Face Reconstruction, Neural Mechanisms, Object Recognition, Parametric Stimuli, Visual Perception, Visual Representation
Mircea Teodorescu
Associate Professor, Electrical and Chemical Engineering and Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
Engineering, Power Electronics, Bioengineering, Energy Conversion, Grid Systems, Robotics
Electric Vehicles for Energy Storage to Stabilize Utility Grid
UCSC engineers are installing an EV recharge station and developing a smart-battery management interface system.