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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Professor Alex Pang

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Visualization, Scientific Visualization, Uncertainty Visualization, Visualization For The Masses

Professor John Musacchio

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Network Economics, Game Theory, Network Economics, Stochastic Modeling

Ethan Miller

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Charlie McDowell

Professor Emeritus, Computer Science and Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Programming, Education, Parallel Computing, Programming Languages

Michael Mateas

Professor Emeritus, Computational Media
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Game Ai, Artificial Intelligence In Games, Interactive Narrative

Dominic Massaro

Professor Emeritus, Psychology and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Social Sciences, Cognitive Science, Multimodal Communication, Speech Perception

Marc Mangel

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Mathematical Biology and Director, Center for Stock Assessment Research
UC Santa Cruz

Applied Mathemetics, Population Biology, Conservation Biology, Fisheries Modeling

Professor Suresh Lodha

Professor Emeritus, Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Data Visualisation, Camera Sensors, Computer Vision, Data Curation, Data Mining, Data Visualization, Entrepreneurship, Geospatial Data, Information Visualization, Innovation, Lidar Data, Multimodal Data, Omnidirectional Sensors, Pedagogy, Scientific Data, Socio-economic Data, Technology, Uncertainty Visualization

Professor Tracy Larrabee

Professor Emerita, Computer Science and Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computing, Vlsi

Sri Kurniawan

Professor, Computational Media
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Human-computer Interaction, Accessibility, Assistive Technology, Inclusive Design

Professor Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Semiconductor Devices, Compound Semiconductors, Optoelectronics

Michael Isaacson

Narinder Singh Kapany Professor Emeritus
UC Santa Cruz

Physical And Biological Sciences, Materials Science, Electron Microscopy, Nanofabrication, Thin Films

Professor Claire Gu

Professor Emerita, Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Nanophotonics, Optoelectronics, Photonic Materials

Andrew Fisher

Distinguished Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences
UC Santa Cruz

Physical And Biological Sciences, Hydrogeology, Aquifer Characterization, Aquifer Testing, Convergent Margins, Facies Controls On Hydrologic Properties, Geophysical Monitoring, Geothermal Instrumentation, Groundwater Recharge, Groundwater–marine Interactions, Hydrogeology, Long-term Monitoring, Numerical Modeling Of Coupled Flows, Ridge Flanks, Seamounts, Subsurface Hydrology, Surface Water–groundwater Interactions, Thermal Evolution Of Oceanic Crust

Subhas Desa

Teaching Professor, Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Management Science, Data Analytics, Innovation Management, Knowledge Engineering, Operations Management, Product Delivery, Product Design, Product Development, Supply Chain Management, Technology Management

Nic Brummell

Professor, Applied Mathematics
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Geophysical And Strophysical Fluid Dynamics, Applied Mathematics, Especially Solar Interior Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Numerical Simulations Of Geophysical And Astrophysical Dynamics, Supercomputing.

Phillip Berman

Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biomolecular Engineering
UC Santa Cruz

Engineering, Immunology And Vaccine Development, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Diagnostics Development, Drug Development, Hiv Envelope Proteins, Hiv/aids Research, Immunology, Infectious Disease Prevention, Molecular And Cell Biology, Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics, Neutralizing Antibodies, Recombinant Protein Expression, Vaccine Development

Student Competition 2009: $30K in prizes

CITRIS is proud to announce the fourth annual CITRIS White
Paper competition, which will give away $30K in cash prizes for the best ideas
that demonstrate the ability of IT to address a major societal challenge.