Meet the award recipients of the first Microsoft HoloLens academic research grants Chosen from more than 500 qualified applications, three faculty members from the UC Berkeley Robotics […]
Research Thrusts
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Reposted from California WaterBlog | Nov. 8, 2015 | By Nick Santos “Where?” The question is foundational to conservation biology and policy. To take a […]
CITRIS Day 2015 Highlights
The inaugural CITRIS Day on October 13, 2015, delivered timely panel discussions and keynote talks, and the videos are now online. Please also enjoy the […]
DOE selects UC Berkeley to lead U.S.-China energy and water consortium
CITRIS Merced campus director Joshua Viers is participating as a campus principal investigator (PI) lead in the new CERC-WET consortium. CITRIS PI Jay Lund is also engaged […]
Creating a National Innovation Ecosystem with Dr. Don Millard from NSF
Dr. Don Millard will speak at 2:15 pm on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 in Room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley This talk is sponsored […]
Join us for CITRIS Day 2015 on October 13
In celebration of our 15th anniversary, we highlight activities core to our mission: bringing innovative methods, insights, and tools from the classroom to the marketplace […]
Researchers Gathering Data to Tackle California’s Water Crisis on Multiple Fronts
Reposted from Sierra Sun Times | by Joel Patenaude | September 25, 2015 California, long envied by the rest of the country for its climate, beauty […]
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 […]
CITRIS Deputy Director Camille Crittenden presents at BIDS DP@C Series
For the 2015-2016 academic year, the Data Points at Cal (BIDS DP@C) series hosted directors from various data science-related research units on campus who delivered 10-minute overviews of […]
How to beat the climate crisis? Start with carrots
Learn more about CITRIS affiliated researchers John Zysman and Nina Kelsey’s work on climate policy in the Berkeley News article, “How to beat the climate […]
Going With the Flow of Data
Scientific data like that being produced by UC Merced researchers will ultimately provide a means to a more sustainable future. “Going with the Flow of […]
Students Recognized for Important MESA Lab Projects
Professor YangQuan Chen has many reasons to be proud of his Mechatronics, Embedded Systems and Automation (MESA) Lab. Besides being extremely popular — so popular the lab […]
One Ph.D. Student’s Mission to Reduce Our Carbon Footprint
Reducing our carbon footprint: Transportation app inspires new “IT for Sustainability” course at UC Berkeley. By Cecile Basnage Climate change is “the defining challenge of our […]
CITRIS Supports Launch of DOE-Sponsored $100K Cleantech University Prize
UC Berkeley has been selected as one of eight national hosts for the Department of Energy (DOE) Cleantech University Prize competitions for aspiring collegiate cleantech […]
Five Questions for Dr. Kenneth Loh, New Director of CITRIS at UC Davis
Since his appointment in July 2015 as the new UC Davis campus director for CITRIS, Dr. Kenneth Loh has been actively recruiting students for CITRIS projects, promoting […]
Siebel Energy Institute launches with major Berkeley presence
by Karen Rhodes | Reposted from Berkeley Engineering, 08/03/2015 The Siebel Energy Institute, a global university consortium focused on smart energy, marked its debut today […]
Evaluating California water management options
By Jenny Ta and Joshua Viers | Reposted from http://californiawaterblog.com It seems inevitable that increasing numbers of California farmers will see their claims to surface […]
Enduring Summer’s Deep Freeze
Summer’s Deep Freeze: New York Times reporter Kate Murphy discusses over-air-conditioned offices and apps like Comfy which let users control the temperature of their offices. […]
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 […]
UC Merced Connect: Fulbright scholar to study Himalayan hydropower
Reposted from UC Merced University Communications | June 9, 2015UC Merced researcher David Rheinheimer has seen the Himalayas from many angles – from his home […]
Stop Laughing at those Clumsy Humanoid Robots
Ken Goldberg, director of the People and Robots initiative of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, was prominently featured in a Wired article on humanoid robots. […]
Bold Bets: Tomorrow’s Industrial Entrepreneurship
For the third event in the Bold Bets series, The Atlantic will travel to the Bay Area to explore innovations in manufacturing and production. Next-generation […]
UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin Joins CPAR Executive Committee
UC Merced Professor Stefano Carpin will serve on the executive board of a new multidisciplinary research enterprise called the People and Robots Initiative, by the […]
Five innovative faculty named Bakar Fellows
Congratulations to each of the new Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley, including CITRIS-affiliated faculty members Pieter Abbeel and Michael Lustig. As a pioneer in robot learning, perception […]