CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
About the Speaker Tess Posner is the Managing Director of SamaUSA, a national non-profit social enterprise based in San Francisco that trains low-income Americans how […]
James Kuffner is a Research Scientist at Google and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He received a Ph.D. from […]
Stuart Macmillan is a consulting professor at Stanford University and a chief scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He has been active in the […]
Dr. Aenor Sawyer manages strategic partnerships with larger organizations and is leading the development of CDHI’s Digital Health Resource center, serving to mentor innovators at […]
Jay Lund is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Davis and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences. He is on the […]
Ravi Prasher is the Division Director of Energy Storage and Distributed Resources division at LBNL. Ravi joined LBNL in June 2015. Prior to joining LBNL, […]
Dr. Kenneth Loh, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, serves as CITRIS campus director at UC Davis. Professor Loh directs the […]
Louis Fox is President & CEO of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), a non-profit corporation that represents the common interests of […]
Abstract: Bayes Impact's is a non-profit whose mission is to use data science to do good on a large scale. Our work at the intersection […]
Tyler Norris serves as Vice President, Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente. As a long time social entrepreneur, Tyler's mission is improving the health of […]
Mark Palatucci is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Anki. He is passionate about creating products that truly surprise and excite people. Prior to […]
Jason Adams is a Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UC Davis Health System. His research is focused on host-pathogen genomics and clinical […]
Scott Mauvais is the Director, Technology & Civic Innovation at Microsoft and works with government and civic leaders, and the citizens they serve, to tackle […]
Web of Systems: Seamless collaboration both among machines and between machines and humans Just imagine, every sensor, and every machine has its own IP address. […]
Adam Coates is Director of the Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab. His research focuses on new AI technologies to reach at least 100 million people […]
Dr. Jan Nolta is the Director of the Stem Cell Program at UC Davis School of Medicine. Her current research is focused on developing therapies […]
Auto use is growing globally, along with the environmental and societal problems it generates, climate change most notably. A recent slowdown in the growth in […]
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of applications such as wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things have brought energy consumption […]
Stuart Russell is currently a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering at […]
Sue Carter earned her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a postdoctoral fellow and IBM Almaden Research Center […]
Talk Title: Taking Robots from the Lab to the Workforce Speaker: Melonee Wise Date: September 14, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, […]
Talk Title: Mapping Aquatic Plants Using Airborne Sensors Speaker: Susan Ustin Date: September 21, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Susan […]
Talk Title: Robots in the Harvest Speaker: James Ostrowski Date: September 28, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Jim Ostrowski is […]
Design, construction, maintenance and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labor. This can be achieved by […]