Assistant Professor
Baskin Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
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.
Pascale Garaud
Pascale Garaud completed her PhD in Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2001. She then became a fellow […]
Jishen Zhao
Jishen Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. She also affiliated with the Storage Systems Research […]
Big Ideas@Berkeley competition open: student funding competition
The 2015-2016 Big Ideas@Berkeley contest is now open. Big Ideas@Berkeley is an annual contest aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of […]
Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet
A series of ultra-high-speed fiber-optic cables will weave a cluster of West Coast university laboratories and supercomputer centers into a network called the Pacific Research […]
Gabriel Hugh Elkaim
Professor of Computer Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Students Design Mobile Apps With Social Flavor
In the CITRIS Mobile App Challenge, inspiration meets perspiration. It’s a rigorous three-month competition where students design, prototype and pitch ideas for solving pressing societal […]
In the Interest of Society, a talk by Costas Spanos at UC Santa Cruz
Spring Data Science Afternoon presented by Data Science Santa Cruz
CITRIS launches “People and Robots” Initiative, updates three other research initiatives
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) today announces the launch of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, a major […]
Ricardo Sanfelice
Director, CITRIS Aviation
Todd Lowe
Todd Lowe is a Professor in Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on comparative genomics, computational and experimental small non-coding RNA research […]
Regis B. Kelly, Innovating Innovatively
Managing Local Power
Multi-disciplinary study examines how individuals make decisions about electric power use in an effort to match demand and supply in campus micro-grids by Gordy Slack […]
CITRIS Signal Newsletter: Bits Add Up
Dear Friends of CITRIS: CITRIS is a high-performance, high-energy organization, and we are pleased to feature two projects demonstrating this theme. The first confirms a […]
Seed Funds Awarded to Three U.S.-Mexico Research Teams
CITRIS is pleased to announce that three innovative proposals have been selected to receive joint seed funding grants from Tecnológico de Monterrey and CITRIS. The winning proposals represent the […]
IBM’s Spohrer Joins the CITRIS Advisory Board
CITRIS is delighted to welcome Dr. James Spohrer to our Advisory Board. Spohrer is the worldwide Director for IBM’s University Programs and Director of IBM’s […]
Improving Access to Public Resources for Everyone
Dear Friends of CITRIS: The protest that sparked the Free Speech Movement fifty years ago initially focused on the rights of all students to assemble […]
Text Spotting: Helping Blind Persons Read Signs
Text Spotting aims to understand how a blind person can access information about the environment using mobile vision “It is easy—and dangerous—for the blind to […]
Improving Access to Public Resources for Everyone
The work of CITRIS researchers on all four of our campuses reflects a similar commitment to improving access to public resources for everyone. Dear Friends […]
Big Ideas competition now open to all CITRIS campuses
What’s Your Big Idea? The 2014-2015 Big Ideas at Berkeley contest is now open! Big Ideas at Berkeley is an annual innovation contest that provides […]
5 Questions with CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden
The Center for Data Innovation recently published an interview with CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden discussing new and ongoing research and our emerging work in […]
Launching New Research Platforms for Smarter Buildings and Healthier People
Friends of CITRIS, The collected research of CITRIS faculty shows an amazing range of scale: from micro-electronics and nanotechnology to systems at the level of […]
Non-invasive Multi-sensor to Predict Worsening Heart Failure
This project will study a low-cost bio-sensing system to non-invasively predict heart failure in a home setting. The device will be able to measure physiological […]