Ruzena Bajcsy, CITRIS’s founding director, has received one of the most distinctive honors within the scientific community.
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Healthy Davis Together serves as a model of town-gown partnerships
With expertise from CITRIS affiliates, the university-city collaboration has helped keep the region’s COVID positivity rate at less than 5 percent.
Crittenden builds case for diversity in climate tech
CITRIS Executive Director Camille Crittenden offers an analysis of gender diversity in energy fields in honor of Women’s History Month for the Berkeley Blog.
Finlayson explains fascination with Silicon Valley CEOs
EDGE in Tech Director Jill Finlayson describes the “long-standing impacts of a lack of diversity in tech” in a San Francisco Chronicle Datebook article.
Haya talks carbon offsets in Bloomberg, Washington Post
Barbara Haya, a research fellow working with CITRIS Climate and the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE) discusses offsetting carbon emissions.
Abbeel addresses AI advancements
CITRIS PI Pieter Abbeel sees robots becoming an integral part of our lives in the next five years.
Nonnecke discusses demand for data transparency in Science article
Brandie Nonnecke and co-author Camille Carlton detailed what political oversight for large social media platforms may look like.
Goldberg uses new AI technique to help robots move in three dimensions
As Ken Goldberg, director of CITRIS People and Robots, tells Wired, Neural Radiance Fields are “ultra-hot,” with applications in entertainment, architecture and, of course, robotics.
CITRIS leadership sheds light on gender diversity in UC IT workforce
According to a 2018–20 study by three CITRIS leaders, women hold only 30 percent of information technology jobs across the UC system.
Inaugural Human Rights By Design fellows publish white papers
Brie McLemore and Ifejesu Ogunleye, the first cohort of a fellowship program established by Taraaz and the CITRIS Policy Lab, have released papers on the human rights implications of emerging tech.
SafelyYou, grown from CITRIS Seed Award, nets $40M in series B funding
The startup, which provides fall detection with AI-enabled camera systems for patients with dementia, has deep roots in the CITRIS community.
CITRIS director weighs in on benefits and risks of AI in business
In the latest issue of BSR’s emerging issues publication, Costas Spanos describes the adoption of autonomous systems in business as an ‘arms race’ to protect privacy.
CITRIS experts discuss chatbots for student mental health support
Can — and should — chatbots help students navigate mental health crises? As higher education tackles a worsening student mental health crisis on slim budgets, […]
Davis works to find COVID ‘breath signature’
With support from a 2020 CITRIS COVID-19 Seed Funding Award, UC Davis professor Cristina Davis is working to develop a portable breathalyzer-like device to detect COVID-19.
EcoBlock serves as PG&E microgrid exemplar
As the California Public Utilities Commission approves an expansion of eligibility requirements for community microgrids, PG&E offered their partnership with CITRIS on the Oakland EcoBlock as a case study of a successful microgrid project.
Kim recognized for community engagement
Katherine Kim, co-director of the CITRIS Health ACTIVATE project, received the 2021 Community Outcomes and Impact Award from the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement.
CITRIS-supported COVID-19 tracking earns Naughton acclaim
Colleen Naughton, an assistant professor at UC Merced, has received two significant honors for wastewater epidemiology work that stemmed from CITRIS seed funding.
‘Spike-liposomes’ pioneered with CITRIS support
Supported by a CITRIS Seed Award, a team of engineers at the University of California, Berkeley has created mimics of COVID-19 that can be used to test the efficacy of neutralizing antibodies.
Barbato discusses ways to protect California homes from wildfires
Michele Barbato, faculty director of CITRIS Climate, spoke to The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times about the wildfire risks of different home materials.
Soga to lead new Center for Smart Infrastructure
CITRIS PI Kenichi Soga has been named the founding director of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure, a unique collaboration with the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD).
UC adopts recommendations for the responsible use of artificial intelligence
Brandie Nonnecke, founding director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, co-chaired the University of California Presidential Working Group on AI.
CITRIS Foundry startup GenEdit raises $26M in series A funding
GenEdit, a venture from the spring 2016 CITRIS Foundry cohort, has received $26 million from Eli Lilly and Co. and nearly a dozen other investors […]
CITRIS Foundry alum Lion Semiconductor acquired for $335M
Texas-based microchip manufacturer Cirrus Logic has acquired Lion Semiconductor, a startup from the 2013 CITRIS Foundry cohort, for $335 million. Lion Semiconductor produces switched-capacitor architectures […]
CITRIS Research Guides Robot Surgery to Success – NY Times
The Berkeley team led by CITRIS People and Robots Director Ken Goldberg built a neural network to analyze the surgical robot’s mistakes and learned how […]