"Internet Policy: The Burden of Democracy and Responsibility of Opportunity" with Susan E. Walters, California Emerging Technology Fund, CITRIS Research Exchange
2016-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Talk Title: Internet Policy: The Burden of Democracy and Responsibility of Opportunity
Speaker: Susan E. Walters
Date: November 30, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Susan E. Walters is Senior Vice President at the California Emerging Technology Fund, which has the mission of closing the Digital Divide in California. Susan joined the Fund after working as the Regional Director of Community Relations for Citibank for Greater Southern California. Prior to Citibank she operated a consulting practice in corporate social responsibility. The work focused on building strategic partnerships between nonprofit organizations and corporations, strategic planning, communications and marketing. She has worked in myriad areas ranging from telecommunications policy, to disability access projects. Examples of her work include designing a highly successful technology job training program for low income adults and youth, creating a brand strategy for a buy local food campaign and marketing programs to reach emerging markets. Her firm’s clients included: AOL, Verizon, Microsoft, Independent Television Service (ITVS), San Francisco Giants, Freddie Mac Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the FoodRoutes Network. Susan has held senior positions in Communications and Marketing with Odwalla and Pacific Bell.
Prior to her work in the private sector Susan served as a senior staff member to Willie L. Brown, Jr. during his tenure as Speaker of the California Assembly. She is an alumna of the Coro Fellows Program, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Masters of Public Policy degree from Claremont University.
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About the CITRIS Research Exchange
Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar takes place on Wednesdays and starts at 12pm Pacific time, and is hosted live in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus (*unless otherwise noted).
Join the conversation online with #CITRISRE.
All talks may be viewed on our YouTube Channel.
Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast/.
Additional live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:

CITRIS @ Davis: 1127 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
CITRIS @ Santa Cruz: Room 595B, Engineering 2 Building, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

The Green Initiative Fund 2017 Spring Grants Info Session
2016-11-30 18:00 - 19:00 | CA
Join TGIF for an info session on the 2017 Spring Grants! Learn about TGIF’s mission and goals, application materials, and important deadlines.

Dissertation Talk: Electro-Mechanical Devices for Ultra-Low-Power Electronics
2016-12-01 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
The proliferation of mobile electronic devices and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought energy consumption to the fore of challenges for future information processing devices. Digital logic integrated circuits (ICs) implemented with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistors…

Berkeley Innovators Series: Tony Xu '07, DoorDash
2016-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
DATE AND TIME
Thu, December 1, 2016
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST
LOCATION
Banatao Auditorium
Sutardja Dai Hall
Berkeley, CA

Tony Xu, an innovative leader in the fields of infrastructure engineering and logistics will discuss his experience founding on-demand delivery company DoorDash and his thoughts on the future of on-demand services at large.

Tony earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cal in ’07 and an MBA from Stanford in ’13. Learn more about Tony at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xutony

Tony will share his experiences for about an hour. A food & drink reception will follow.

We highly encourage you to come with thought-provoking questions!

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Berkeley Innovators Series hosted by the CITRIS Foundry & University Development and Alumni Relations.

CITRIS Foundry was created to help entrepreneurs build companies that make a significant impact on the world. If you’re ready to jump in, The Foundry provides access to design, manufacturing and business development tools, along with a community of entrepreneurs and experts, to transform your team into founders.

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Berkeley Innovators Series: Tony Xu ’07, CEO and Co-Founder of DoorDash
2016-12-01 17:00 - 18:00 | CA
Tony Xu, an innovative leader in the fields of infrastructure engineering and logsitics will discuss his experience founding on-demand delivery company DoorDash and his thoughts on the future of on-demand services at large.
Tony earned his B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Cal in ’07 and an MBA from Stanford in ’13. Learn more about Tony at:…

UC Berkeley Tech for Social Good Event
2016-12-01 18:15 - 19:15 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
The UC Berkeley Tech for Social Good program is hosting its first info session!
The Tech for Social Good Program provides funding support to undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students, groups, teams or organizations developing hardware, software, events or programs that support healthy, sustainable, connected, and equitable livelihoods in the United States and abroad.
Join us to learn more about how you can get involved!
The event will be held in 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley.
RSVP to: https://www.facebook.com/events/223316101437822/

Smarter Transportation: The cyberphysical systems perspective
2016-12-02 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
In this talk, I will present implications of CPS design to Smarter Transportation Systems, namely: a) Distributed algorithms for collaborative localization and clock synchronization, b) Software-defined architecture for Transportation, and c) data mining from inexact big data.

Robert Langer – 2016 Bioengineering Distinguished Seminar
2016-12-02 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
We are pleased to welcome Professor Robert Langer of MIT as our 2016-17 Distinguished Seminar speaker.
“Biomaterials and biotechnology: From the discovery of the first angiogenesis inhibitors to the development of controlled drug delivery systems and the foundation of tissue engineering”
Abstract:
Advanced drug delivery systems are having an enormous impact on human health. We start by…

Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future
2016-12-05 14:00 - 15:30 | CA
Speaker: David Wentzlaff, Princeton University

Date: 12/5/2016, 2:00pm – 3:30pm

Location: 380, Soda Hall

Title: Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future
Abstract: Current-day data centers and IaaS clouds (e.g. Amazon EC2, MS Azure, Google GCE) use microprocessors that are very similar to or the same as those used in small servers and desktops. This work rethinks the design of microprocessors specifically for data center use along with how microprocessors are affected by the novel economic models that have been popularized by IaaS clouds. This talk will describe several architectural changes including how a processor can be decomposed into sub-components (e.g. ALU, Cache, Fetch Unit) that can be individually rented in IaaS clouds, how running similar programs can be taken advantage of in the data center, how architectural features such as the flavor of memory bandwidth (bursty vs. bulk) can be provisioned and sold in the data center, and novel memory architectures that enable the creation of sub-coherence domains of cache coherence across the data center.
More info: http://engineering.berkeley.edu/processors-data-center-and-cloud-future-2016-12-05

"What Happens When the Things We Design Wake Up?" with Mickey McManus, MAYA Design, CITRIS Research Exchange
2016-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Talk Title: What Happens When the Things We Design Wake Up?
Speaker: Mickey McManus
Date: December 07, 2016, Wednesday, 12-1pm
Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Biograpy: Mickey McManus is a research fellow at Autodesk in the Office of the CTO, and Principal & Chairman of the board at MAYA Design, a design consultancy and innovation lab. He’s a pioneer in the fields of pervasive computing, collaborative innovation, human-centered design and education.
Abstract: In Mickey’s current research project, “Primordial,” he and his team are exploring the impact on design when three inevitable technology trends converge. Often called the “Internet of Things,” pervasive computing is a game-changer that’s on a collision course with two complementary trends—digital manufacturing and machine learning. In 2012, Mickey co-authored one of the essential field guides to the era of pervasive computing in his book, Trillions. He believes that taken together, these three trends give us the ability to shift to an entirely new set of design and business paradigms for the first time in history. The way we design for things that begin to “wake up” is uncharted territory. If we don’t take into account our connected future and continue designing for disconnected things, we will design our way into irrelevance. The challenge designers face is how to surf these trends, what to do about them, and identify how designing “things” will change. Those of us that figure it out sooner rather than later, will have an unfair advantage while others will be reactionary and surprised at each turn of the screw.
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About the CITRIS Research Exchange
Free and open to the public, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar takes place on Wednesdays and starts at 12pm Pacific time, and is hosted live in the Banatao Auditorium at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus (*unless otherwise noted).
Join the conversation online with #CITRISRE.
All talks may be viewed on our YouTube Channel.
Live broadcast at http://video.citris.berkeley.edu/playlists/webcast/.
Additional live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:

CITRIS @ Davis: 1127 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
CITRIS @ Santa Cruz: Room 595B, Engineering 2 Building, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Health in California under a Trump Presidency
2016-12-07 17:00 - 19:00 | CA
Health in California under a Trump Presidency
UC Berkeley School of Public Health | Dean’s Speaker Series
Wednesday, December 7*
Talk with reception to follow: 5-7 p.m. | David Brower Center, Goldman Theater and Wolf Gallery
Speakers: Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President of Healthy Communities, The California Endowment; Dr. Sandra R. Hernández, President and CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Dr. Karen Smith, Director and State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health
Moderator: Stephen Shortell, Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professorship, HPM Professor of Organizational Behavior, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
California’s health landscape is always shifting due to budget fluctuations, market dynamics, and policy and demographic changes—and the pace of change is likely to accelerate following the November 2016 election. Change can lead to challenges, and challenges often disproportionately impact low-income residents and vulnerable populations. How can we improve access to and quality of care in our state? How can we promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians, particularly those most in need?
Join three prominent California health policy leaders dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the health of individuals and of our communities as they discuss how California can best move forward following the recent election and the challenges and opportunities present in our changing landscape.
More info: http://sph.berkeley.edu/news-events/deans-speaker-series
https://livestream.com/accounts/19759631/health-in-CA

Town Hall Meeting
2016-12-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Please join us on Thursday, December 15, 2016 in the Banatao Auditorium of Sutardja Dai Hall for the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Town Hall meeting.
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Carol T. Christ will join us and will share her reflections on the state of the campus, including updates on the budget, campus initiatives, leadership transitions, and other observations.
Town Hall Meeting, 2:00-3:00pm | 310 Sutardja Dai Hall (Banatao Auditorium)
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Director Costas Spanos will provide opening remarks, followed by a special address by EVCP Carol T. Christ.
Agenda

Fall 2016 Research Highlights
CITRIS Foundry Updates
2017 CITRIS Seed Funding Call for Proposals
Announcements and Upcoming Events
Special Address by EVCP Carol T. Christ
Q&A discussion (questions welcome in advance)

WAFR 2016: The 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
2016-12-18 08:00 - 2016-12-20 17:00 | Exploratorium, Pier 15 (Embarcadero at Green St), San Francisco, CA, United States
WAFR 2016
Date: December 18-20, 2016
Location: San Francisco, CA
Venue: Exploratorium
Register to Attend
About WAFR
Founded in 1994, the International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) is a prestigious biannual meeting of international researchers presenting the latest advances in algorithms for robotics. WAFR is a single-track workshop devoted to recent advances on algorithmic problems in robotics. The workshop proceedings will be published in a hardcover volume in the Springer STAR series, and selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Robotics Research.
Topics:
The focus of WAFR is on the design and analysis of robot algorithms from both theoretical and practical angles. The topics of interest are very broad. We encourage papers on fundamental algorithmic issues, such as complexity, completeness, machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, and new programming paradigms, to name a few. We also encourage papers on applications of robot algorithms to important or new domains, such as manufacturing, legged locomotion, distributed robotics, human-robot interaction, surgical robots, intelligent prosthetics, and brain-controlled robots. Furthermore, robot algorithms are being applied in domains beyond the traditional scope of robotics, e.g., computational biology, computer animation, sensor networks, etc. Papers on these topics are also welcome.

Image credit: http://wafr2016.berkeley.edu/

Seed Grant Program Info Session at UC Santa Cruz
2017-01-10 08:00 - 17:00 | CA
January 10, 4-5pm at UC Santa Cruz
Location: Engineering 2 Building, Room 180, The Simularium, UCSC campus
The 2017 CITRIS Seed Funding opportunity invites Principal Investigators at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Davis Health System, UC Merced, and UC Santa Cruz to apply for seed funding that furthers CITRIS and the Banatao Institute research initiatives, strengthens connections among UC campuses, and catalyzes early-stage research that can lead to external funding.
This year, we are pleased to continue our seed funding partnership with UC Riverside and encourage joint applications from investigators at UC Riverside and one or more CITRIS campuses.

$550,000 available: Core CITRIS Seed Funding
$150,000 available: CITRIS & UC Riverside Seed Funding

View the full program overview with detailed areas of interest, eligibility, requirements, online application portal, and FAQs.
Deadline for all CITRIS Seed Funding proposals:
Friday, January 27, 2017 at 5:00pm PST
Funded projects have attracted follow-on support from federal, state, industrial, and private sources including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Intel, Microsoft, Mellon Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

For more info about this info session, please contact: Angel Dominguez, Administrative Manager and Project Coordinator
Find out more about the CITRIS Seed Funding program at https://citris-uc.org/citris-seed-funding/

How Chemistry Can Revolutionize Electronics and Opto-Electronics
2017-01-20 14:00 - 15:00 | CA
Since the beginning of Solid State Electronics, with the invention of the transistor, chemical bonding structures have actually played the key enabling role. This lecture will outline how chemical bonds were critical for the computing revolution, the internet revolution, and are of great importance for the forthcoming energy revolution. I will try to answer the following question: What does…

Design Field Notes: Neil Goldberg
2017-01-24 16:00 - 17:00 | CA
Neil Goldberg will give a talk, “Design Matters: From Design Consciousness to Design Thinking,” at the Jacobs Institute.

Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Please join us for the first CITRIS Research Exchange of the spring semester.
Abstract:
Our Beauty and Joy of Computing course was chosen as one of the national pilots for the new Advanced Placement (AP): Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to broaden participation in computing to traditionally underrepresented groups. Locally offered as a non-majors computing course, BJC was the first…

Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) with Dan Garcia
2017-01-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Please join us for the first CITRIS Research Exchange seminar of the Spring 2017 semester!
“Transforming High School Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)”
Speaker: Daniel Garcia, UC Berkeley
CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 25
Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
https://garcia-citrisre.eventbrite.com/
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Abstract:
Our Beauty and Joy of Computing course was chosen as one of the national pilots for the new Advanced Placement (AP): Computer Science Principles (CSP) course to broaden participation in computing to traditionally underrepresented groups. Locally offered as a non-majors computing course, BJC was the first introductory CS course in Cal’s recorded history to have greater than 50% female enrollment, and women usually outperform the men! We have reached thousands of learners worldwide through our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) BJCx, and we have provided professional development to over 300 high school teachers nationwide, with plans for 100 more this summer. This talk will review the state of the “computer science for all” movement, and share how we are moving the needle to transform high school computer science, bringing fun, engaging, and powerful introductory computing ideas to the world.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. The complete schedule for Spring 2017 is coming soon to: CITRIS Research Exchange
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live.
Ask questions live on Twitter: #CITRISRE.
All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/playlists
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
CITRIS @ Santa Cruz: Room 595B, Engineering 2 Building, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Transforming SF: The Future of Work
2017-01-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Mechanics’ Institute Library & Chess Room, 57 Post Street 4th Floor Meeting Room, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Transforming SF: THE FUTURE OF WORK
Thursday, January 26, 2017 | 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM PST
Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room
57 Post Street
4th Floor Meeting Room
San Francisco, CA 94104
What are the social and economic impacts of technology, robotics and AI on work and employment?
Will human beings be completely replaced in the work force? What new jobs will be created and which industries most affected? What will we do with time on our hands and how will we “earn a living”? Two experts in this field will sort out these complicated dynamics, dispel misconceptions, and offer both the short and long view.
This conversation includes artist, inventor and robotics guru Professor Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Director of the CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative; and economics expert Professor Emeritus John Zysman, UC Berkeley, Department of Political Science and Co-Director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).
Please register below and select “UC Berkeley Affiliate” for free admission:
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Machine Vision Innovations
2017-02-01 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Machine Vision Innovations
Lecture | February 1 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium
Speaker/Performer: Gary Bradski, CTO, Arraiy.com
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Gary Bradski is CTO at Arraiy.com, which is building a computer vision and deep learning platform to provide customers new abilities to capture and understand the visual world. Bradski co-founded Industrial Perception, a company that developed perception applications for industrial robotic application (since acquired by Google in 2012) and has worked on the OpenCV Computer Vision library, as well as published a book on that library.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis
Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch at UC Berkeley if you register by the Monday before the talk (lunches limited).
Register online
Event contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live during the time of the event

Software Engineering with Machine Learning
2017-02-08 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Software Engineering with Machine Learning
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Big Data: People and Robots Initiative | February 8 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Peter Norvig is a Director of Research at Google Inc. Previously he was head of Google’s core search algorithms group, and of NASA Ames’s Computational Sciences Division, making him NASA’s senior computer scientist. He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch at UC Berkeley if you register by the Monday before the talk (lunches limited).

Register Online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live during the time of the event

Berkeley Innovators Present: She Started It - Film Screening + Discussion
2017-02-08 18:00 - 20:30 | Banatao Auditorium, 330 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PST
Banatao Auditorium
Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
About She Started It:
96% of venture capitalists are men 1. Women still account for less than 10% of founders for high growth firms 2 and earn only 12.9% of computer science degrees 3. She Started It gives a new face to the image of the tech entrepreneur: a female face.
Join the CITRIS Foundry, Berkeley Innovators, Student Technology Council, and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship for a film screening of “She Started It,” a new documentary film that follows five trailblazing young female entrepreneurs through their journeys of entrepreneurship. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion led by Abigail Jacob, Materials Science and Engineering ’18, Engineering Student Council Vice President and Head of Internal Affairs, and a Unit Supervisor for Residental Computing; Tarrika Soni, Cognitive Science ’15, User Ops at Nerd Wallet.
View the trailer for the film here. UC Berkeley Students, Staff and Faculty are invited to attend this free event.

Agenda:
6:00 PM | Welcome
6:15 PM | Film Screening of She Started It

Light snacks will be served

7:15 PM | Film Discussion with panel

Abigail Jacob, Materials Science and Engineering ’18, Engineering Student Council Vice President and Head of Internal Affairs, and a Unit Supervisor for Residental Computing
Tarrika Soni, Cognitive Science ’15, User Ops at Nerd Wallet

8:30 PM | Program Close

Register to Attend

Event Hosted By
This event is a part of the Berkeley Innovators Series and is hosted by the CITRIS Foundry, Berkeley Innovators, Student Technology Council, and the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship.

About the CITRIS Foundry:
The CITRIS Foundry is the University of California accelerator for founders building transformative technology companies. If you’re ready to jump in, the Foundry provides access to design, manufacturing and business development tools, along with a community of entrepreneurs and experts, to accelerate your team into founders.
About Berkeley Innovators:

Part of the central campus office of University Development and Alumni Relations, Berkeley Innovators connects alumni entrepreneurs and founders with campus resources that can help their company grow – including recruiting, visibility, networking, and events.
About the Student Technology Council (STC):
The Student Technology Council (STC) is a student-led, student-run organization that advises the campus Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor on issues of student technology. STC’s mission is to connect, innovate, and sustain in order to meet student technology needs.
About the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship (SCET):
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology is the premiere institution on the UC Berkeley campus for the study and practice of “technology-centric” entrepreneurship and innovation.

1Fortune2″Sources of Economic Hope” by Kauffman Foundation3Computing Research Association study

Enhancing Human Capability with Intelligent Machine Teammates
2017-02-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Julie Shah
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, February 13 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Every team has top performers — people who excel at working in a team to find the right solutions in complex, difficult situations. These top performers include nurses who run hospital floors, emergency response teams, air traffic controllers, and factory line supervisors. While they may outperform the most sophisticated optimization and scheduling algorithms, they cannot often tell us how they do it. Similarly, even when a machine can do the job better than most of us, it can’t explain how. In this talk, we will view results from work investigating effective ways to blend the unique decision-making strengths of humans and machines. We will discuss the development of computational models that enable machines to efficiently infer the mental state of human teammates and thereby collaborate with people in richer, more flexible ways. Our studies demonstrate statistically significant improvements in people’s performance on military, healthcare and manufacturing tasks, when aided by intelligent machine teammates.
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Julie Shah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and leads the Interactive Robotics Group of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2014, Shah was recognized by the National Science Foundation with a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award and by MIT Technology Review on its 35 Innovators Under 35 list. Her work on industrial human-robot collaboration was also in Technology Review’s 2013 list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies. She has received international recognition in the form of best paper awards and nominations from the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, and the International Symposium on Robotics. Shah earned degrees in aeronautics and astronautics and in autonomous systems from MIT.

From Resource to Price: The Case of the Italian Electricity Network and Market - Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine
2017-02-14 13:00 - 14:00 | CA
Siebel Energy Institute Seminar Series
From Resource to Price: The Case of the Italian Electricity Network and Market
Anna Creti, Université Paris Dauphine

Tuesday, February 14 at 1:00 PM PT
Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Lunch is offered.
Live Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/citris/live

Abstract:
We empirically investigate the impact of renewable production on congestion using a unique database on the Italian Power Market, where zonal pricing is in place. We estimate two econometric models: a multinomial logit model, to assess whether renewables increase the occurrence of congestion, and a two stage least square (2SLS) model to evaluate the impact of wind and photovoltaics on congestion costs. Our analysis suggests that larger renewable supply in importing regions decreases the probability of congestion compared to the no congestion case, while the reverse occurs when renewable production is located in an exporting region. The 2SLS estimations reveal that the same mechanisms explain the level of congestion costs. Our results also highlight that the magnitude of the congestion effects, both in terms of probability and costs, is very sensitive to the localization of the historical efficient production, mainly hydro power, and to the geographical configuration of the transmission network. Finally, the implications of forecasting and simulating new renewable production, based on data of wind and solar availability, will be discussed.

Speaker Biography:
Anna Creti is a Full Professor at the Université Paris Dauphine, LeDA-CGEMP (Laboratoire d’économie de Dauphine-Centre de Géopolitique de l’Energie et des matières premières) and Director at the Chaire European Electricity Markets. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at Ecole Polytechnique, and currently is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She received her PhD in Economics at the Université de Toulouse, her master’s degree at École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), and her in B.A. in Economics at the University L. Bocconi -Discipline Economiche e Sociali in Milan. She has been a fellow at the London School of Economics, and researcher at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle, Toulouse and has won numerous awards for her work, including the Research Excellence Award at Bocconi University in 2008, 2009, and 2010. She has published in various journals that cover topics in network economics, with a special focus on telecommunications, electricity and gas sectors. Her research interests are in energy economics, industrial organization, regulation theory and organization theory.

About the Siebel Energy Institute
The Siebel Energy Institute is a global consortium for innovative and collaborative energy research. The Institute funds cooperative and innovative research grants in data analytics, including statistical analysis and machine learning, to accelerate advancements in the safety, security, reliability, efficiency, and environmental integrity of modern energy systems and Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructures. To maximize the impact of research and its long-term benefits to society, research outcomes will be publicly available and the Institute maintains an active connection to the energy sector through an Industrial Advisory Board. Member universities are Carnegie Mellon University, École Polytechnique, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Princeton University, Tsinghua University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and The University of Tokyo.

Big Data Mining and Neural Networks
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Tearing Down the Deep Learning Performance Wall
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Big Data: People and Robots Initiative | February 15 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Greg Diamos, Senior Researcher, Baidu
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Just this year, deep learning has fueled significant progress in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. We have seen a computer beat the world champion in Go with help from deep learning, and a single deep learning algorithm learn to recognize two vastly different languages, English and Mandarin. At Baidu, we think that this is just the beginning, and high performance computing is poised to help.
It turns out that deep learning is compute limited, even on the fastest machines that we can build. This talk will provide empirical evidence from our Deep Speech work that application level performance (e.g. recognition accuracy) scales with data and compute, transforming some hard AI problems into problems of computational scale.
This talk will describe the performance characteristics of Baidu’s deep learning workloads in detail, focusing on the recurrent neural networks used in Deep Speech as a case study. It will cover challenges to further improving performance, and outline a plan of attack for tearing down the remaining obstacles standing in the way of strong scaling deep learning to the largest machines in the world.
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Greg Diamos is a senior researcher at Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL). Previously he was on the research team at NVIDIA. Greg holds a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he contributed to the development of the GPU-Ocelot dynamic compiler, which targeted CPUs and GPUs from the same program representation. His PhD thesis pioneered execution models for heterogeneous processors.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.

Register online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

Ernest S. Kuh Distinguished Lecture: From Geometry to Startups - Reinventing Engineering Education
2017-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Lecture | February 16 | 12 PM – 1 PM | Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall
Featured Speaker: Dr. Zexiang Li, Co-Founder, DJI
Sponsor/Organizer: College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
Target Audiences: Open to all audiences, faculty, graduate & undergraduate students
Refreshments: Lunch will be provided
Event Contact: bears@berkeley.edu
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Professor Li was born in Hunan, China and received his BS degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics (with honors) from Carnegie-Mellon University, his MA degree in Mathematics and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Professor Li worked as a research scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of MIT and as an assistant professor in the Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory of New York University. He received the National Natural Science Award (3rd class) from China, the University Scholar Award from Carnegie-Mellon University, the E.I. Jury Award from UC Berkeley, the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation, the ALCOA Fellowship from the ALCOA Foundation and the E. Anthony Fellowship from UC Berkeley.

Data-Driven Price-of-Anarchy Estimation in Transportation Networks
2017-02-20 10:00 - 11:00 | 380 Soda Hall, 380 Soda Hall, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Ioannis Paschalidis
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS)
This event has been postponed. Please check the seminar series schedule for any updates.
Equilibrium modeling is common in a variety of fields such as game theory, transportation science, and systems biology. The inputs for these models, however, are often difficult to estimate, while their outputs, i.e., the equilibria they are meant to describe, are often directly observable. By combining ideas from inverse optimization with the theory of variational inequalities, we develop an efficient, data-driven technique for estimating the parameters of these models from observed equilibria. A distinguishing feature of our approach is that it supports both parametric and nonparametric estimation by leveraging ideas from statistical learning.
We apply this general framework to transportation networks. Using real traffic data from the Boston area, we estimate origin-destination flow demand matrices and the per-road cost (congestion) functions drivers implicitly use for route selection. Given this information, one can formulate and solve a system-optimum problem to identify socially optimal flows for the transportation network. The ratio of total latency under a user-optimal policy versus a system-optimal policy is the so-called Price-of-Anarchy (POA), quantifying the efficiency loss of selfish actions compared to socially optimal ones. We find that POA can be quite substantial, sometimes exceeding 2, suggesting that there is scope for control actions to steer the equilibrium to a socially optimal one. We will discuss what some of these actions may be and how to prioritize interventions.
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Yannis Paschalidis is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is the Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since 1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of systems and control, networks, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, medical informatics, and bioinformatics.
Prof. Paschalidis’ work has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the second prize in the George E. Nicholson competition by INFORMS, and a finalist best paper award in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). His work on protein docking has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups. Work with students has won a best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, and an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize. He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference. Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.

Biomedical Instrumentation:
2017-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Room 310, Berkeley, 94720
Biomedical Instrumentation:: How do we measure what we want to measure, when and where we want it
Lecture: CITRIS Research Exchange: Health Initiative | February 22 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, 310, Banatao Auditorium

Speaker/Performer: Dan Fletcher, Professor, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

Dr. Dan Fletcher is Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems in the Bioengineering Department at UC Berkeley, where his research focuses on the biophysics of cell movements and the cytoskeleton and development of biomedical devices. Recent work from his laboratory includes direct measurement of the actin networks that drive crawling motility, development of vesicle encapsulation technology for cellular reconstitution, and demonstration of fluorescence microscopy on a mobile phone.
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Free and open to the public. Register online by Monday for a free lunch at UC Berkeley. The CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each one-hour seminar starts at 12pm Pacific time and is hosted live at Sutardja Dai Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.
Live broadcast at https://www.youtube.com/user/citrisuc/live. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel .
Live webcasting of each CITRIS Research Exchange seminar is available at these CITRIS campuses:
CITRIS @ Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall, College of Engineering, UC Davis

Registration recommended: Free
Registration info: Free lunch available (limited #s). You must register by the Monday before the event for lunch.
Register online

Event Contact: (510) 664-4508
Webcast: Webcast. Event will be webcast live during the event and then available on the CITRIS Youtube site.

The Bugs that went to Mars and Terrorized Earth
2017-02-27 16:00 - 17:00 | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, 250 Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, United States
Speaker: Rajeev Joshi
Seminar: CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems, Analysis, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS) | Monday, February 27 | 4 – 5 PM | 250 Sutardja Dai Hall | Webcast
Since its dramatic landing in Gale crater in August 2012, the Curiosity Rover has been busy exploring the surface of Mars, looking for evidence of past habitable environments. Having completed over 4 years on Mars, and with nearly 17 kms on its odometer, Curiosity has already made historic discoveries, finding evidence of an ancient freshwater streambed, organic molecules and other key ingredients necessary for life. Yet, in spite of its great successes, the mission has not been without a few hiccups. In this talk, we discuss the most significant of these: the Sol-200 anomaly, when the failure of a flash memory chip uncovered three latent software bugs that nearly killed the mission. We describe how the anomaly manifested itself, how recovery was achieved, and lessons learnt from the experience. The work described in this talk was carried out at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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Rajeev Joshi is a Principal Engineer at the Lab for Reliable Software at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he works on building and applying tools based on formal methods to improve mission software reliability. He is also currently the Chief Engineer for Flight Software and Avionics Systems at JPL. He was a member of the Curiosity rover flight software development team, and, after landing, a member of the surface operations team, serving as data management chair and supporting anomaly investigations. For his work on Curiosity, he received two JPL Mariner Awards and the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal. He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MS/PhD (also in Computer Sciences) from the University of Texas at Austin. His previous employment includes 4 years at the DEC/Compaq/HP Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, CA, and 2 years at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. He is an elected member (and current secretary) of IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology.
