The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, witha story about a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters, and an interview with Greg Niemeyer, who creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.
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.
2010 CITRIS Seed Funding RFP Now Open
CITRIS is pleased to announce a new round of seed funding for FY 2010. It is open to all CITRIS investigators in UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz.
CITRIS Research Exchange schedule for Spring 2010 is now online
The spring schedule for the Research Exchange can be found at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010
Statoil Initiates Mega-Projects Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Project Production Systems Laboratory
One of the world's largest crude oil and gas suppliers, Statoil, has
teamed up with UC Berkeley’s Project Production Systems Laboratory
(P2SL) and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) to
establish a Mega-projects Research Initiative.
CITRIS Faculty Weigh in on COP15
On December 7, 2009, representatives of the world’s governments convene
in Copenhagen, Denmark, seeking agreement between nations to regulate
and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after 2012, when the current
treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, expires.
Subterranean Solutions: Tracking Groundwater Recharge
California’s water crisis “hangs over us like a ton of bricks,” says Andrew Fisher, UC Santa Cruz professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences and director of the Recharge Initiative…
Santa Cruz Researchers Focus on Mountain Lion Wherabouts
SANTA CRUZ — Most people try to stay
away from mountain lions, but on Friday a group of researchers in Santa
Cruz county went looking for them…
CALVIN: Clarifying California’s Old and Murky Water Problems
Professor Jay Lund and colleagues at the UC Davis Center for Watershed
Sciences have developed software to model California's water storage
and distribution system.
Subterranean Solutions: Tracking Groundwater Recharge
UC Santa Cruz Professor Andrew Fisher leads the Recharge Initiative, which focuses
efforts to protect, enhance, and improve the availability and
reliability of ground water resource.
i4energy Seminar Series, Fall 2009 is online
The complete schedule for the new energy seminar series at CITRIS is online at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/i4e-fall2009.
CITRIS Research Exchange for the Fall now online
The Fall 2009 schedule for the CITRIS Research Exchange is now online. The talks begin Sept. 2 and will take place in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall.
Getting Your Robot On: Wearable Machines’ Intimate Interface
Jacob Rosen has developed a robotic arm controlled by the
electrical signals sent by the brain through the nerves to contract the
muscles – signals known as electromyograph (EMG).
Medical Matchmakers: Startup ComplexDX Helps Specialists Find Hard-to-Diagnose Patients
A new company, which won second-place in this year's Big Ideas contest, works to connect patients with difficult-to-diagnose symptoms with the right specialists.
Professor Yi Zhang
Yi Zhang is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include information retrieval, text mining, statistical machine learning, and natural language processing. She has collaborated with start-ups, large corporations and government agencies on related topics. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. She is working with SSRC on the Distributed Metadata Management project, focusing on how to use rich key-value metadata to allow users to interactively navigate and search distributed file systems.
Professor Jim Whitehead
Jim Whitehead is an Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he helped create the Computer Game Design program. He is also the founder and board chair of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, which hosts the yearly Foundations of Digital Games conference. Jim’s research interests in the area of games include level design and procedural content generation. In the field of software engineering, Jim performs research on software bug prediction, software repository mining, and software evolution.
John Vesecky
Professor John Vesecky’s technical interests are in the areas of remote sensing of the ocean surface; ocean current measuring radar for coastal ecology and oceanography, radar and radar systems, especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wave scattering; remote sensing and public health; global change. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSC he was a Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Professor Ajujan Varma
Anujan Varma is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Computer Engineering Department at UCSC. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California. He was previously employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 to 1991.
Holger Schmidt
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Narinder Singh Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, UC Santa Cruz
Professor Jose Renau
Research Interests
Computer architecture with focus on complexity, temperature, reliability. To gain further insights systems (SCOORE) are built on FPGAs and ASICs.
Professor Raquel Prado
Raquel Prado is Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at UCSC. Her current research is in non-stationary and multivariate time series analysis. Her book, Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference was published earlier this year.
Research Areas
Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing and statistical genetics.
Professor Nader Pourmand
Dr. Pourmand is the head of the Biosensors and Bioelectrical Technology Group, as well as, director of the Genome Sequencing Center at UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering. Dr. Pourmand’s ongoing research strives to develop new techniques and assays for biomedical applications. Because the nature of science is ever changing, Dr. Pourmand and his team of researchers work diligently in order to be innovative and proactive when it comes to research, collaboration, and discovery.
Professor Ira Pohl
A.B., Mathematics, Cornell University Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, Fellow of the ACM
Ira Pohl is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The department is part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. His current research is in object-oriented programming and topics in software methodology. He has written widely on programming in C, C++ C# and Java.
Professor David Pease
Research Areas
File systems, operating systems, storage, programming languages
Professor Alex Pang
Dr. Alex Pang is interested in uncertainty visualization and tensor visualization.