CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges

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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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.

Kenneth Pedrotti

Kenneth Pedrotti received his BS in Engineering Physics from University of California, Berkeley in 1978. He received his MS in electrical engineering specializing in quantum electronics, in 1979 and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, from Stanford University working at the Ginzton Laboratory on problems in non-linear optics and atomic physics.

Arthur Keller

Dr. Keller was a visiting associate professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is now affiliated with the Technology and Information Management program at UCSC. He taught Database Systems (CMPS 180) in fall 2001 and winter 2002. He taught Relational Database Systems (CMPS 277) during spring 2002 and covered database system implementation. He taught Relational Database Systems (CMPS 277) during fall 2002 and covered a survey of research papers on database systems. He was not scheduled to teach during winter 2003.

David Haussler

David Haussler develops new statistical and algorithmic methods to explore the molecular evolution of the human genomeDavid Haussler’s research lies at the interface of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology. He develops new statistical and algorithmic methods to explore the molecular function and evolution of the human genome, integrating cross-species comparative and high-throughput genomics data to study gene structure, function, and regulation. He is credited with pioneering the use of hidden Markov models (HMMs), stochastic context-free grammars, and the discriminative kernel method for analyzing DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. He was the first to apply the latter methods to the genome-wide search for gene expression biomarkers in cancer, now a major effort of his laboratory.

Alan Christy

Alan Christy is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Yihsu Chen

Professor of Technology Management in Sustainability, UC Santa Cruz

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Research Exchange: Leveraging Machine-learning and Crowdsourcing to Process Text Messages in the world’s Less-resourced Language

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