From hobby to necessity

CITRIS administrator sews protective masks Karen Stierwalt, CITRIS Director of Finance and Administration, began sewing at about eight years old. Over the last decade, she […]

A message from Director Costas Spanos

Institute responds to coronavirus crisis We find ourselves in extraordinary times. As our research community faces the coronavirus pandemic, our thoughts turn to what contributions we […]

CITRIS Foundry event welcomes spring 2020 cohort

The new spring cohort of CITRIS Foundry teams was announced February 13 at a Foundry event featuring Rich Lyons, UC Berkeley’s first-ever Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. The 32 teams cover deep tech fields from AI and engineering systems to materials science and biotechnology, tackling issues including health care, energy and the environment, transportation, and sustainable infrastructure.

Kris Pister appointed new faculty director to Marvell NanoLab

Kris Pister, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a co-director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, has been named the new faculty director of the UC Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory (NanoLab), located at CITRIS. The appointment, which became effective Jan. 2, brings in a veteran user known for his advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) to head the cutting-edge facility.

Targeting the Caravan: Debunking an Anti-Migrant Video Spread as U.S. Right-Wing Propaganda

The gross misrepresentation of events exemplified in this tweet came to my attention during my involvement in a research project between the CITRIS Policy Lab and the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley which analyzed thousands of tweets from the top 10 most influential bot and non-bot accounts spreading anti-migrant propaganda on Twitter leading up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.