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SUMMARY:Brick Consortium Virtual Kickoff
DESCRIPTION:Brick is an open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions of the physical\, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them. This enables interoperability and communications between and among applications\, diagnostics\, and building systems. \nUC Berkeley was one of several organizations involved in the development of Brick; Johnson Controls is leading the Brick Industry Consortium to standardize and further develop Brick. \nThere will be two identical Open House sessions\, each running for two hours: \n\nTuesday\, February 23 at 8 AM US Pacific/11 AM Eastern/16:00 UTC/17:00 CET\nMonday\, March 1 at 5 PM US Pacific/8 PM US Eastern/9:00 AM Tuesday 2nd SGT/HKT\n\nThe sessions will be the same\, so there is no need to attend both. \nDuring the open house\, there will be: \n\nAn overview of the Brick Consortium\nA quick refresher on Brick and what it can do\nA quick tour of the “Brick source code” and how it’s implemented\, as well as existing open-source tools for using and working with Brick\nAn overview of the Brick working groups\nExamples of how Brick is being used in products now\n\nTime will be spent discussing the Brick Roadmap. While participants will learn what’s planned for Brick 1.3 and beyond\, this part will largely be an interactive discussion around \n\nIf you are a potential adopter of Brick\, what do you think is important to see in Brick?\n If you are a potential adopter of Brick\, what’s necessary for you to get Brick into your products?\nWhat are you willing to work on?\n\nThe session will be recorded. If you’re not able to attend\, a link will be provided after the event. \nBrick is open source and you do not need to be a member of the Brick consortium to use Brick or contribute to its development. However\, by being a Consortium member\, you will have more opportunities to shape the standard as well as helping to support future Brick development and research projects.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/brick-consortium-virtual-kickoff-2/
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SUMMARY:Toward Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems in the Anthropocene with Sam Markolf
DESCRIPTION:TALK TITLE: Toward Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems in the Anthropocene with Sam Markolf \nSPEAKER: Sam Markolf\, Assistant Professor\, UC Merced \nRegister to attend > \nABSTRACT: The Anthropocene\, informally referred to as the ‘Age of Humans’\, is not only characterized by humankind’s outsized influence on ecological and planetary systems\, but also pervasive and accelerating climatic\, technological\, social\, economic\, and institutional change that appears to be positioned as critical drivers of our future infrastructure and urban systems. This talk will discuss an evolving portfolio of work that outlines and analyzes some of the key issues\, implications\, and dynamics between infrastructure systems and emergent properties of the Anthropocene. Topics of focus include climate change and climate nonstationarity\, interdependencies between infrastructure systems\, complex interconnections between infrastructure and broader social-ecological systems\, and opportunities/challenges for applying artificial intelligence in this context. Ultimately\, it is posited that these (and other) emergent properties of the Anthropocene warrant consideration in the design\, implementation\, and management of infrastructure systems if broader sustainability and resilience objectives are to be met. \nBIO: Samuel Markolf is an assistant professor within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Merced\, where his research broadly focuses on applying systems-thinking to sustainability and resilience challenges facing cities and infrastructure systems. Prior to joining UC Merced\, he was an Assistant Research Professor at Arizona State University and a Research Fellow within the NSF-sponsored Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN). Sam earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin\, Masters in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a joint-Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. \nABOUT SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, the CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Series is a weekly dialogue highlighting leading voices on societal-scale technology challenges. Each one-hour seminar takes place on Wednesdays and starts at 12 pm. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-with-sam-markolf/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Foundry Startup Showcase - Spring 2021
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS Foundry Startup Showcase – Spring 2021\nJoin us as we celebrate our CITRIS Foundry spring and summer cohorts from 2020 with our community of innovators\, entrepreneurs\, mentors\, and supporting partners! \n\nExpert panel on making the transition from scientist to entrepreneur\nPitches from graduating startups\nNetworking with current spring and summer 2020 cohorts and community\nA chance to meet and mingle with our incoming spring 2021 cohort\n\nAt the CITRIS Foundry\, our innovators tackle big problems in industries ranging from cleantech to medical devices to consumer products and AI. By leveraging the incredible resources and expertise at UC Berkeley and the Bay Area entrepreneurship community\, we help bring innovation to market and society! \nRegister to attend >
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-foundry-spring-showcase-2021/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Foundry
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SUMMARY:When the Chips are Down: Navigating Strengths and Strategic Vulnerabilities in the Semiconductor Industry
DESCRIPTION:When the Chips are Down: Navigating Strengths and Strategic Vulnerabilities in the Semiconductor Industry\nWednesday\, March 10\, 2021\n12:30 pm – 3:00 pm ET | 9:30 am – 12 pm PT\nRegister to attend > \nOverview \nJoin CITRIS and the Wilson Center’s Science and Technology Innovation Program for a closer look at the market dynamics and national security concerns associated with the semiconductor industry. \nIncreasingly\, semiconductors have been recognized for their unique role as a key component for promoting economic growth and scientific advancement as well as ensuring national security. Given recent shifts in the global semiconductor industry and the use-cases it supports as well as growing geostrategic competition between the U.S. and China\, the U.S. faces increasing pressure to locate timely and effective policy solutions. What global market dynamics and security concerns must be addressed\, and how? Our ability to effectively answer this pressing question relies on a nuanced understanding of the market and security dynamics at play in the semiconductor industry at home and abroad. Join us for this two-and-a-half-hour event where we will examine both the evolving global market and national security concerns in depth with leading experts in the field. \nThis event will be webcast live on the Wilson Center’s website; bookmark the page to stay informed of agenda updates. \nAgenda \nIntroduction – Meg King\, Director of the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars \nAdditional Remarks – Costas Spanos\, Director of CITRIS & the Banatao Institute\, University of California; Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor\, EECS\, UC Berkeley \nKeynote – Victoria Coleman\, Senior Advisor to the Director at CITRIS & the Banatao Institute\, University of California; Former Director of DARPA \nPanel: Competing in a Global Market – What are the market dynamics at play affecting the position of firms around design\, production\, and materials required to produce state-of-the-art integrated circuits? The recent focus has been on manufacturing facilities\, but is that sufficient? What will assure sustained innovation and supply for the firms using integrated circuits in their products\, noting that the needs of different industry segments are quite different? What U.S. policies hold the most promise for bolstering the competitiveness of producers and users of semiconductors? \n\nModerator: John Zysman\, Faculty Director of the Future of Work at CITRIS and Co-Director of BRIE; Professor Emeritus\, Political Science\, University of California\, Berkeley\nPanelists:\n\nAjit Manocha\, CEO of SEMI\nVladimir Bulović\, Director of MIT.nano\, Professor of Engineering\, MacVicar Fellow MIT\n\n\n\nPanel: Mitigating National Security Concerns – Growing attention has been paid to the national security implications of the semiconductor industry. Much of that conversation\, however\, is often simplified to a single concern: China. Yet\, the question is not simply\, ‘is China a national security concern’ but rather\, ‘how and why are we at risk and from whom’ and ‘what policy options provide the best leverage for addressing those risks.’ To that end\, this panel focuses on two sets of questions: framing the national security problem and assessing solutions. We will begin by exploring the types of security concerns present\, including the availability and security of supply chains\, cybersecurity concerns\, and critical dependencies in applications such as 5G and AI. We will then examine potential solutions\, including the role of international cooperation in developing solutions\, the strengths and shortcomings of the U.S. approach to date\, and how we navigate two sets of interests in practice: addressing pressing national security concerns and ensuring industry’s ability to innovate and compete on a global stage. \n\nModerator: Melissa K. Griffith\, Public Policy Fellow with the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)\nPanelists:\n\nMeg Hardon\, Head of Government Affairs at Infineon Technologies\nEric W. Burger\, Research Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/when-the-chips-are-down-navigating-strengths-and-strategic-vulnerabilities-in-the-semiconductor-industry/
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SUMMARY:2021 Women in Tech Symposium - The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction
DESCRIPTION:Registration for the Women in Tech Initiative at the University of California’s flagship event is now open!\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nNow in its fifth year\, this major annual event will showcase issues\, sector opportunities\, and the career paths of experts in human-computer interaction (HCI). Now entering a new era\, human-computer interaction is a multidisciplinary field that combines new technology in cyber-physical systems with human-centered design and usability. This year’s symposium will examine leading-edge technologies and challenges to ensuring equitable and inclusive HCI. \nAt the Women in Tech Symposium – The New Era in Human-Computer Interaction\, join us for: \n\n“Defining the New Era in HCI” Fireside Chat with Tsu-Jae King Liu (Berkeley Engineering) and Leila Takayama (UC Santa Cruz)\nFour HCI panels on health\, food\, games\, and justice\, hosted by UC Davis\, UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz\, and UC Berkeley respectively\nDeep-dive breakout sessions with Facebook on AR/VR\, Sandia Labs on Cybersecurity\, and more!\n“Two Approaches” conversations with experts from Tesla and other tech leaders and researchers\n“Sustainable Disruption: Ensuring an #InclusiveHCI Future Is Not Enough” Closing Talk with Melody Ivory (Thrivafy)\nCareer Fair connecting participants with leading tech companies seeking HCI\, UI\, UX talent\n\nView full agenda > \nThis year\, attendees will hear from experts such as Katia Canepa Vega (UC Davis)\, Ankita Raturi (Purdue University)\, Jenna Rodriguez (CERES Imaging)\, Christina Harrington (DePaul University)\, Uma Balakrishnan (Tesla)\, and more! \nBeyond hearing from leading human-computer interaction researchers\, the symposium will feature the presentation of the 2021 Women in Tech Initiative Athena Awards\, recognizing those who have championed the advancement of women in technology. It will also include networking opportunities among attendees and speakers. \nWe welcome participants from startups\, nonprofit and government organizations\, and established companies as well as university students\, staff\, faculty\, and tech enthusiasts. The symposium is open to everyone\, allowing a broad audience the chance to join the conversation about the future of human-computer interaction. \nThe Women in Tech Symposium will take place on Friday\, March 12\, 2021\, virtually. Join HCI experts for a full day devoted to world-changing technologies. \nBe part of women in tech and the #NewHCI \nRegister to attend: wit2021.eventbrite.com \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/2021-women-in-tech-symposium-the-new-era-in-human-computer-interaction/
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Rob Howe
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: March 15\, 2001\nSpeaker: Rob Howe\nAffiliation: Harvard\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-rob-howe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210316T090000
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SUMMARY:Leaders in Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series - Nichelle Grant
DESCRIPTION:Leaders in diversity and inclusion speak about their goals\, challenges\, and careers\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIn the ever-changing workplace\, leaders with expertise in diversity\, equity and inclusion are now more important than ever. Join Berkeley Global and the Women in Technology Initiative at the University of California for our speaker series featuring corporate leaders in diversity\, equity and inclusion roles who will share their journeys and insights gained while advocating for diversity and inclusion in major corporations. \nFor this event\, we speak with Nichelle Grant\, Head of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion at Siemens\, USA. \nModerators Ramu Nagappan\, Assistant Dean\, UC Berkeley Extension\, and Jill Finlayson\, Director of the Women in Technology Initiative at UC\, will explore with Grant her career progression\, key diversity\, equity\, and inclusion initiatives at Siemens\, USA\, as well as lessons learned she can pass on to other companies. \nAgenda: \n\n9:00–9:05 am: Welcome remarks by Jill Finlayson\n\n\n9:05–9:50 am: Fireside chat with Nichelle Grant and moderators Finlayson and Nagappan\n\n\n9:50–10:10 am: Q&A with the audience\n\n\n10:10–10:15 am: Final remarks by Ramu Nagappan\n\nAbout our speaker: \nNichelle Grant \nHead of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Siemens\, USA \nNichelle Grant guides Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion strategy. Her 20+ years within the Siemens business includes developing go-to market strategies\, focusing on the customer experience\, and driving operational excellence. This\, combined with her passion and commitment to the cause\, will position the company exceptionally well with stakeholders across the country. \nGrant has been involved with Diversity & Inclusion at Siemens for over 10 years\, which has included voluntarily leading employee resource groups and diversity councils for Siemens USA. Most recently\, she has played an integral role working with supply chain and procurement teams to increase supplier diversity efforts. For many customers\, this is core to doing business with Siemens. \nGrant’s leadership in Diversity & Inclusion extends far beyond Human Resources and has a much broader reach into topics that drive change and impact the workforce\, workplace and marketplace. Grant will drive a more holistic approach to building and leveraging a workforce that mirrors the diversity of our customer base\, suppliers\, partners and society. She strives to help Siemens continue to drive an inclusive work environment that actively involves every employee’s ideas\, knowledge\, perspectives\, approaches\, and styles to maximize business success. And\, she will systemically address\, through data and analytics\, customer diversity requirements that are now prerequisites and conditions for both routine and complex contracts. \nGrant is a graduate of Michigan State University with a B.S. degree in Zoology and a Master’s degree from Roosevelt University. She is a Certified Diversity Executive (CDE). \nAbout our moderators: \nJill Finlayson \nDirector\, Women in Technology Initiative\, University of California \nJill Finlayson is Director of the Women in Technology Initiative at UC\, co-sponsored by CITRIS and the Berkeley Engineering at UC Berkeley\, which supports research and initiatives to promote the equitable participation of women in technology fields. Prior to Berkeley\, she led mentorship and developed incubator and accelerator programs for Singularity University Ventures\, whose mission is to increase the number of impact-focused tech startups. Finlayson ran the Toys category for five years at eBay and authored the book Fundraising on eBay. She managed a community of social entrepreneurs at the Skoll Foundation\, led marketing at various startups\, and consulted for the World Bank\, Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation. Finlayson also judges and coaches founders of global startups for several startup competitions. She has mentored for TechWomen.org for the past nine years\, also participating in delegation trips. Finlayson is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. \nRamu Nagappan \nAssistant Dean\, Berkeley Global \nRamu has enjoyed a 20-year career in higher education\, focusing on professional and undergraduate programs. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. He is the author of Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and Social Asian Narratives.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/leaders-in-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-speaker-series-nichelle-grant/
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Neera Jain
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: March 29\, 2001\nSpeaker: Neera Jain\nAffiliation: Purdue University\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-neera-jain/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210412T160000
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Vickie Webster-Wood
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: April 12\, 2001\nSpeaker: Vickie Webster-Wood\nAffiliation: CMU\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-vickie-webster-wood/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T160000
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Chinwe Ekenna
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: April 19\, 2021\nSpeaker: Chinwe Ekenna\nAffiliation: University at Albany\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-chinwe-ekenna/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210420T221500
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SUMMARY:Leaders in Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series - LaDavia S. Drane
DESCRIPTION:Leaders in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion speak about their goals\, challenges\, and careers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIn the ever-changing workplace\, leaders with expertise in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion are now more important than ever. Join Berkeley Global and the Women in Technology Initiative at the University of California for our speaker series featuring corporate leaders in diversity\, equity\, and inclusion roles who will share their journeys and the insights they’ve gained while advocating for these issues in major corporations. \nIn this event\, we speak with LaDavia Drane\, Esq.\, Head of Global Inclusion\, Diversity\, and Equity at Amazon Web Services. \nAgenda: \n\n9:00–9:05 am: Welcome remarks by Jill Finlayson\n\n\n9:05–9:50 am: Fireside chat with LaDavia Drane and moderators Finlayson and Nagappan\n\n\n9:50–10:10 am: Q&A with the audience\n\n\n10:10–10:15 am: Final remarks by Ramu Nagappan\n\nAbout our speaker: \nLaDavia S. Drane\, Esq.\,is a diversity\, inclusion and equity leader\, who brings a unique policy and public relations perspective to her work. She has mastered the art of strategic alignment through national and international relationship management and coalition building. \nLaDavia earned her B.S. in business from Miami University’s Farmer School of Business and her J.D. from Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. LaDavia began her professional career as a law firm associate at Ulmer & Berne LLP in Cleveland and later moved to Washington\, DC to launch a career in politics and policy. LaDavia has held several roles on Capitol Hill\, including Chief of Staff\, Legislative Director and Executive Director for the Congressional Black Caucus. LaDavia has also done a considerable amount of political work off the Hill in Washington\, serving as the Director of Federal and Regional Affairs for DC Mayor Muriel Bowser and on Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign as the Director of African American Outreach and Deputy Director of Congressional Affairs. \nLaDavia’s career now centers on the intersection of diversity and technology\, once serving as Amazon’s U.S. Public Policy Head of Diversity & Inclusion and now serving as Amazon Web Service’s Global Head of Inclusion\, Diversity and Equity. \n  \nAbout our moderators: \nJill Finlayson \nDirector\, Women in Technology Initiative\, University of California \nJill Finlayson is Director of the Women in Technology Initiative at UC\, co-sponsored by CITRIS and the Berkeley Engineering at UC Berkeley\, which supports research and initiatives to promote the equitable participation of women in technology fields. Prior to Berkeley\, she led mentorship and developed incubator and accelerator programs for Singularity University Ventures\, whose mission is to increase the number of impact-focused tech startups. Finlayson ran the Toys category for five years at eBay and authored the book Fundraising on eBay. She managed a community of social entrepreneurs at the Skoll Foundation\, led marketing at various startups\, and consulted for the World Bank\, Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation. Finlayson also judges and coaches founders of global startups for several startup competitions. She has mentored for TechWomen.org for the past nine years\, also participating in delegation trips. Finlayson is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. \nRamu Nagappan \nAssistant Dean\, Berkeley Global \nRamu has enjoyed a 20-year career in higher education\, focusing on professional and undergraduate programs. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. He is the author of Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and Social Asian Narratives.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/leaders-in-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-speaker-series-ladavia-s-drane/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Health: Lessons from Lighthouse Webinar
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of UC Berkeley and CITRIS Health’s Lighthouse for Older Adults program\, we invite you to join our upcoming “Lessons from Lighthouse: Operationalizing Technology to Support Older Adults in Affordable Housing Communities” webinar focused on the lessons learned through the development and implementation of the Lighthouse for Older Adults Program. \nLaunched in 2020\, Lighthouse for Older Adults is a public-private partnership to support low-income older adults living in affordable housing communities by providing access to the internet and connected wellness tools. Older adults in affordable housing communities are one of the most underserved populations affected by COVID-19\, especially vulnerable due to limited access to information\, connection\, and health care services. \nJoin us for a conversation with Dr. David Lindeman\, Director of CITRIS Health; Kari Olson\, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer of Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (FPCIW); Davis Park\, Executive Director of FPCIW; and Trau Vang\, Social Services Coordinator of Eskaton Jefferson Manor\, as they discuss the lessons learned through the Lighthouse program’s empathy research phase and Rapid Pilot Deployment\, what’s been learned about available technology options\, and the planning steps needed to operationalize supports to meet the needs of older adults. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists and learn how they can leverage the lessons we’ve learned to better serve older adults. \nClick here to learn more about Lighthouse for Older Adults. \nDate: Thursday\, April 22\, 2021\nTime: 9:00-10:30am PT; 12:00 – 1:30pm ET\nHow to Register: Click here to register for the webinar \nPlease email Cynthia Marquez Miranda at cmarquez@berkeley.edu with any questions. \nAbout the speakers: \nDavid Lindeman\, PhD\, Director of CITRIS Health Initiative at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute\, UC Berkeley \nDavid Lindeman\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of CITRIS Health. Lindeman has worked in the fields of health care and long-term care for nearly 40 years as a health services researcher and gerontologist\, conducting research related to health care technology\, assistive technologies\, chronic disease management\, healthy aging\, disabilities\, dementia\, community-based and residential services\, health care workforce\, and family\ncaregiving. His current focus is working with researchers\, entrepreneurs and investors on the incubation\, start-up\, evaluation\, and scaling of technology-enabled health care solutions\, including initiatives that address critical health care challenges through mobile/cloud\, sensors/IoT\, telehealth\, robotics\, assistive technologies\, and data analytics (AI/machine learning). \nThese technology-enabled solutions cover a continuum of health care issues\, ranging from wellness to complex chronic conditions and precision health\, with an emphasis on global applications. He serves as an advisor to foundations\, government agencies\, businesses\, and venture firms\, and previously served as the founding Director of the Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging; Associate Professor of Health Policy at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging\, Rush University Medical Center; and Co-Director of the UC Davis Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Lindeman received his Ph.D. and MSW from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nDavis Park\, Vice President of Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (FPCIW) \nDavis Park has been developing and managing FPCIW’s technology initiatives and programs since 2011. The FPCIW is a center of excellence in Front Porch\, a Southern California nonprofit provider of retirement living communities and affordable housing. Davis has over 20 years of program development experience in technology program design\, testing\, and implementation among older adult\, low-income\, and other underserved communities to explore and deploy innovations to improve access to digital solutions. He has served as a presenter or facilitator in dozens of regional\, national\, and international conferences. Davis is the former director of Community Technology Programs at the Little Tokyo Service Center\, where he managed several community-based initiatives that focused on bridging the digital divide. Davis is also an inaugural member of the Zero Divide ZFellows\, a program developed to facilitate technology adoption and social justice to underserved communities. He has served on several boards and committees dedicated to promoting technology access\, adoption\, and policy\, and holds a BA in anthropology from UC Berkeley and a Masters from UCLA’s Urban Planning Program. \nTrau Vang\, Social Services Coordinator at Eskaton Jefferson Manor \nTrau Vang assists the elderly\, especially those who are frail and disabled\, in affordable housing communities and connects them with supportive services and other community resources to allow them to maintain their independence and remain in their homes. Trau facilitates programs and services\,  such as health and wellness in the community\, and has developed a resource directory of local social services agencies and providers. Trau is an advocate for\, counsels and provides social support. \nKari Olson\, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer of Front Porch & President of Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing (FPCIW) \nKari Olson is the Chief Innovation and Technology Officer (CIO) of Front Porch\, one of Southern California’s largest not-for-profit providers of senior living communities. She also serves as the President of the Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing\, founded on a belief that technology innovation plays an important role in enhancing each individual’s ability to “live life my way.” In her current role as CIO\, Olson leads the business innovation strategy for Front Porch and its partners while also leading business and resident technology initiatives. As president of the award-winning Front Porch Center\, she explores innovative uses of technology to empower individuals to live well\, especially in their later years. Kari speaks nationally about Front Porch’s work in innovation and technology.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-health-lessons-from-lighthouse-webinar/
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Health
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Linh Phan
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: April 26\, 2021\nSpeaker: Linh Phan\nAffiliation: University of Pennsylvania\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-linh-phan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210428T110000
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SUMMARY:Women in Law\, Policy\, and Government
DESCRIPTION:Women in Law\, Policy\, and Government\nApril 28\, 2021\n10 am to 11 am\nRegister to attend >  \nAbout the Panel \nIn this one-hour webinar presented by the Women in Business Law Initiative at Berkeley Law\, a panel of distinguished leaders will discuss policies and practices affecting women’s fair representation in the fields of law\, policy\, and government. Speakers include Ann Cleaveland\, Executive Director of the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the UC Berkeley School of Information\, Catherine Fisk\, Professor of Labor Law at Berkeley Law\, and Janet Napolitano\, former UC President\, former Secretary of Homeland Security\, and Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Brandie Nonnecke\, Founding Director of CITRIS Policy Lab. This webinar is co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. \nPanelists \n\nAnn Cleaveland\, Executive Director of the Center for Cybersecurity at the School of Information\nCatherine Fisk\, Professor of Labor Law at Berkeley Law\nJanet Napolitano\, former UC President\, former Secretary of Homeland Security\, and Professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley\n\nModerator \n\nBrandie Nonnecke\, Director\, CITRIS Policy Lab\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is co-sponsored by the CITRIS Policy Lab and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to attend > 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/women-in-law-policy-and-government/
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Tech Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210503T170000
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Ricardo Sanfelice
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: May 3\, 2001\nSpeaker: Ricardo Sanfelice\nAffiliation: UCSC\nZoom (Join day/time of the event): https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91953129348?pwd=Z3pNRi9aUEhqWUl1NjY3aUpUU2dwZz09
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-ricardo-sanfelice/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210504T085000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210505T170000
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SUMMARY:13th Annual CEND symposium
DESCRIPTION:The 13th Annual CEND symposium: Rapid innovation in a highly regulated space – What can we learn from COVID-19 for pandemic preparedness? \nMay 4 – 5\, 2021\nHosted by the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases \nTwo Day Conference \nThis year the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases will provide a forum for interdisciplinary\, science-based discussion to collate “lessons learned” and develop recommendations for future pandemic preparedness. Our schedule includes lectures and interactive workshops. \nFeatured Speakers \nAll-star lineup of speakers includes former UC President Janet Napolitano\, Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus\, and former FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan\, and more. \nRegistration \nREGISTER HERE > \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/13th-annual-cend-symposium/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Tech Policy
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T103000
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Lessons on Scaling Equitable Vaccine Distribution to Help High-Risk Populations
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the insufficient health infrastructure in place for reaching populations including low-income\, homebound older adults and rural agricultural workers\, and communities across the country are struggling to adopt effective prevention and control models that meet the needs of all residents. On behalf of CITRIS Health\, I invite you to join our upcoming webinar: Lessons on Scaling Equitable Vaccine Distribution to Help High-Risk Populations at 9:00am PT on May 20\, 2021. \nThe webinar will focus on the lessons learned through the development and deployment of vaccination efforts across three programs: Lighthouse\, which reaches older adults in affordable housing communities; ACTIVATE\, which reaches rural agricultural workers in California’s Central Valley\, and Healthy Davis Together\, which has taken a community-centric approach to pandemic prevention and control. As all populations are now eligible for vaccines\, these efforts have mobilized to provide vaccines and address the vaccine distribution disparities preventing priority populations from full access to care. \n\nJoin us for a conversation with Dr. David Lindeman\, Director of CITRIS Health; Veronica Chavez\, Community Outreach Manager at Livingston Community Health; Helidee Millan-Govea\, Community Outreach Manager at Livingston Community Health; Sheri Peifer\, Senior VP and Chief Strategy Officer of Eskaton\, Darlene Cullivan\, Senior Manager of Outreach and Impact at Eskaton and Dr. Sheri Belafsky\, Medical Director of Healthy Davis Together\, as they discuss the lessons learned through the development and deployment of their vaccine initiatives\, the importance of partnerships with trusted community organizations\, and the equity considerations required for building an equitable infrastructure for providing vaccines to underserved populations. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panelists and learn how they can quickly adapt the lessons learned to increase vaccine access across California and the United States. \nDate: Thursday\, May 20\, 2021\nTime: 9:00am-10:30am PT; 12:00pm – 1:30pm ET\nHow to Register: Click here to register for the webinar. Please email Cynthia Marquez Miranda at cmarquez@berkeley.edu with any questions. \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/webinar-lessons-on-scaling-equitable-vaccine-distribution-to-help-high-risk-populations/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Health
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210622T130000
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SUMMARY:Pacific Research Platform: Its Legacy and Promise
DESCRIPTION:Pacific Research Platform: Its Legacy and Promise\nJune 22\, 2021\, 9 am – 12 pm\nRegister to attend > \nDescription: \nBuilding on years of research in network engineering and data-intensive collaborative science\, the Pacific Research Platform was born in 2015 with a grant from the National Science Foundation. It aimed to knit together major university research networks and supercomputing centers on the west coast as a proof of concept for how limitations of space and time could be erased by virtue of tight coordination among large-scale regional networks like CENIC and those responsible for delivering data to end-users in labs and campus offices throughout the Pacific Rim. \nSix years and trillions of gigabytes later\, the PRP concept has expanded to encompass a National and even Global Research Platform. As important as developments in the cyberinfrastructure and software driving it have been\, equally significant are the professional relationships\, field-building development for science engagement and research facilitation\, and domain-specific discoveries that the PRP facilitated. As the PRP’s initial 6-year run concludes in 2021\, this symposium will recap innovations and advancements enabled by the projects’ leaders and partners.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/pacific-research-platform-event/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210814
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SUMMARY:Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) PhD Summer Course
DESCRIPTION:The Transatlantic Telehealth Research Network (TTRN) invites you to participate in the online PhD summer course\, Future Digital Technologies in Healthcare: How to design\, test and assess the value of digital technologies and services that engage\, empower\, and motivate patients. \nAims of the program: \n\nTo give a comprehensive introduction to research methods used in digital technologies in healthcare on how to design\, test and evaluate the technologies and services that engage\, empower\, and motivate patients\nTo present new digital technologies\, theories and research methods in the design\, assessment and implementation of digital health technologies. During the course the students will examine the possibilities for using the methods in their own Ph.D. project\nTo give PhD students the possibility to create networks with other Danish and international PhD students and international researchers\n\nWho can participate? \nThis course is relevant for Ph.D. students that are working on projects to design\, assess or implement digital health technologies. This course is also relevant for Ph.D. students studying methodological aspects of health technologies in general. The course is interdisciplinary and relevant for students from medical\, technical and social science faculty. Participants must submit a five page paper one week before the course about a research question related to their Ph.D. project and feedback will be given during the course (template will be provided). \nClick here to download the full program. \nDates: August 11th – 13th\, 2021 \nLocation: Online via Zoom \nCredits: 2 ECTS \nPrice: $365 USD \nRegistration Deadline: August 4th \nHow to Register: Click here to register. For more information\, please contact Dr. Birthe Dinesen at bid@hst.aau.dk.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/transatlantic-telehealth-research-network-ttrn-phd-summer-course/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Health
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210820
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Aviation Prize: RFP opens
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Aviation Day on August 19\, 2021 by signing up for the first-ever CITRIS Aviation Prize! \nCreated in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley\, this competition challenges student teams to design\, develop and demonstrate a long-distance\, fully autonomous flight with a small UAV. We invite student teams from our four CITRIS campuses – UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz – to compete. The winning proposal will be recognized with the first CITRIS Aviation Design Prize\, including a $2\,000 cash award and up to $25\,000 to demonstrate the actual flight in Spring 2022. \nTimeline\n\nTeam Registration Open: Aug. 19\, 2021\, to Oct. 15\, 2021\nProposal Submissions Due: Nov. 19\, 2021\nProposal Winner Announced: Dec. 17\, 2021\nWinning Flight Plan Executed by End of Academic Year: Spring 2022\n\nLearn more & register on the CITRIS Aviation Prize webpage.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-aviation-prize-rfp-opens/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210824T180000
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SUMMARY:Society\, Robots and Us: Inclusive Investment
DESCRIPTION:Our next ‘conversation that matters’ is on inclusive investment for robotics. Join us at 6 pm PDT on Tuesday August 24th\, 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this event\n\n\nFollowing our “COVID-19\, Robots and Us” series\, we’re continuing the conversation about important robotics topics and socio-technical issues. We’ll be inviting domain experts and interesting thinkers to discuss topics relating to robotics innovation\, commercialization and inclusivity. Mainly\, we’re inviting YOU to share your thoughts about inclusive robotics\, what is it? Why do we need it? And what do we do to get it?  \nModerated by Andra Keay of Silicon Valley Robotics \nGuest speakers this week: \n\nKira Gardner\, CITRIS Foundry\nMichael Harries\, The Robotics Hub\nSwati Chaturvedi\, PropelX\nKen Goldberg\, artist and roboticist\n\nCatch our previous episodes on Silicon Valley Robotics youtube channel \nAcknowledgment: Your hosts are speaking from the traditional lands of the Mewukma Ohlone People\, who remain unrecognized in US Federal Law.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/society-robots-and-us-inclusive-investment/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210830T160000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR/BDD Seminar - Matt Beane on Sensitivity Theory
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER: Matt Beane \nTITLE: Sensitivity Theory: Explaining How Workers in Deskilled Jobs Advance within an Organization \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n \nABSTRACT: Millions work in deskilled jobs\, and prior research suggests that advancing out of these jobs within an organization is uniquely difficult: \nin order to advance\, workers must demonstrate skills other than those that their current position gives them the opportunity to develop. Through our two year\, nationwide\, multi-sited ethnographic study of AI-enabled robotics in e-commerce and parcel warehousing\, we both reveal the profound challenges to internal advancement out of actively deskilled jobs and the systematic ways in which a small minority of workers managed to do so\, in spite of these challenges. In particular\, we show that workers advanced by capitalizing on a “sensitivity”: an attunement to a domain of organizational operations\, experienced as some combination of fascination and irritation and enacted through small attempts to understand or address related problems. The remainder of sensitivity theory accounts for the practices and organizational conditions that allow workers in deskilled jobs to develop sensitivity-related skills\, add value in their organization and advance into jobs that are not deskilled. Beyond this core contribution\, sensitivity theory helps us predict individual career trajectories\, the talent-related dynamics of automation\, deskilling and workplace skill polarization\, and better understand the diversity of work-related human capability. \nBIO: Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor in Technology Management at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and a Digital Fellow with both Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and MIT’s Institute for the Digital Economy. He received his PhD and Masters from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Information Technologies department. In between his doctoral studies and his current professorship\, Beane helped found and fund Humatics\, an MIT-connected\, full-stack internet of things startup. Its mission is to drive seamless collaboration between humans\, machines\, and infrastructure. Beane conducts field research on work involving robots and AI to help us understand the implications of intelligent machines for the broader world. All of his projects involve many hundreds of hours—sometimes years—watching\, interviewing\, and often working side by side with people who use robots to get their jobs done. And unlike most social scientists\, each of his studies is designed to uncover success in conditions where we would expect failure. Finding these “positive needles” in the negative haystack of technological progress allows Beane to offer unique insights that can guide us as we try to navigate the future we’re building for ourselves. \nCurrently\, Beane is leading a team engaged in unprecedented—nationwide\, multi-organizational\, longitudinal—research on AI-enabled robots in e-commerce warehousing\, looking for conditions in which frontline workers and their organizations adapt particularly well and rapidly to the introduction of these systems. He has also studied robotic surgery\, robotic materials transport\, and robotic telepresence in healthcare\, elder care\, and knowledge work. He is likewise in the midst of applied research to develop two intelligent technologies to address the challenges evident in his prior studies. \nBeane’s award-winning research on robotic surgery has been published in premier management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science\, and Harvard Business Review. In 2012\, he was selected as a Human Robot Interaction Pioneer\, and in 2021 he was named to the Thinkers50 Radar list. He is a regular contributor to popular outlets such as Wired\, MIT Technology Review\, TechCrunch\, and Forbes. When he isn’t studying the intersection of intelligent tech and apprenticeship—which is hardly ever—he likes to play the guitar\, cook with his wife Kristen\, and read science fiction. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-bdd-seminar-matt-beane-on-sensitivity-theory/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Gerald Friedland on Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Gerald Friedland. \nTALK TITLE: “A Measurements-Based Approach to Machine Learning” \nSPEAKER: Gerald Friedland\, Adjunct Assistant Professor\, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, UC Berkeley \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Gerald Friedland is teaching as adjunct faculty at the EECS and works on Machine Learning within CITRIS Health. He is also the founder and CTO of Brainome\, Inc. Before that\, he was a principal data scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Lab after being with the International Computer Science Institute for over 10 years. His work focuses on machine learning and multimedia signal processing. He was the lead figure behind the Multimedia Commons initiative\, a collection of 100M images and 1M videos for research and has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles in conferences\, journals\, and books. Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master’s degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin\, Germany\, in 2002 and 2006\, respectively. \nABSTRACT: Every field of science and engineering starts with measurements. When working on machine learning problems\, modern data science often relies more on computation (let’s throw more GPUs at the problem) and guesswork (let’s see if we can modify Alexnet for our specific problem) than on any kind of measurements. In this talk\, I will discuss an approach to supervised machine learning that is rooted in information-theoretic measurements. I will explain how this approach is especially interesting for high dimensional problems that\, without measurements\, suffer from “the curse of dimensionality”. I will explain the fundamentals of how measurements-based machine learning works\, and also explore how the approach can be applied to solve real-world problems in CITRIS and beyond. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-gerald-friedland-a-measurements-based-approach-to-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210902T170000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Aviation Prize: Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you a UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, or UC Santa Cruz student and want to learn more about our first-ever CITRIS Aviation Prize? Sign up for the info session! \nLearn more about Aviation Prize and how to develop your team’s winning proposal. Presenters include:\n-Professor Costas Spanos\, Director\, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute\n-Associate Professor Erin Hestir\, Environmental Engineering at UC Merced\n-Asst. Professor Brandon Stark\, Director\, UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety \nCreated in collaboration with the Institute for Transportation Studies at UC Berkeley\, this competition challenges student teams to design\, develop and demonstrate a long-distance\, fully autonomous flight with a small UAV. We invite student teams from our four CITRIS campuses – UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Merced\, UC Santa Cruz – to compete. The winning proposal will be recognized with the first CITRIS Aviation Design Prize\, including a $2\,000 cash award and up to $25\,000 to demonstrate the actual flight in Spring 2022. \nTimeline\n\nTeam Registration Open: Aug. 19\, 2021\, to Oct. 15\, 2021\nInfo Session: Sept. 2\, 2021\nProposal Submissions Due: Nov. 19\, 2021\nProposal Winner Announced: Dec. 17\, 2021\nWinning Flight Plan Executed by End of Academic Year: Spring 2022\n\nLearn more & sign up on the CITRIS Aviation Prize webpage.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-aviation-prize-info-session/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210913T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210913T170000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-3/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210915T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153753
CREATED:20210816T034825Z
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Stavros G. Vougioukas on Agriculture and AI
DESCRIPTION:A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Stavros G. Vougioukas. \nTALK TITLE: “Human-robot Collaboration for Fruit Harvesting” \nSPEAKER: Stavros G. Vougioukas\, Professor\, Biological and Agricultural Engineering\, UC Davis  \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Stavros Vougioukas has a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical\, Computers\, and Systems Engineering Department\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Troy\, NY. He is a Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering\, the University of California at Davis. His research focuses on robotics and automation for agriculture\, with emphasis on robot-aided and autonomous harvesting. \nABSTRACT: Manual harvesting of fresh-market fruits is costly and labor-intensive. This presentation will discuss two different robotic harvest-aid systems and report results from their deployments during commercial harvesting. The first system comprises two mobile robots that reduce workers’ non-productive walking times by carrying full and empty trays in the field. The second system is a robotic orchard platform that was developed to assist in tree fruit harvesting. The platform uses advanced sensing to estimate the fruit load on the trees and the workers’ harvesting speeds\, and controls platform speed and picker elevations to load-balance the amount of fruit picked by each worker and maximize the system’s harvesting speed. \nCITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-stavros-vougioukas/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210920T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153753
CREATED:20210825T001329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210826T232019Z
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210922T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T153753
CREATED:20210816T035257Z
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange – Shijia Pan on Cyber-Physical Systems
DESCRIPTION:TALK TITLE: “Sense for Less: Physical Informed Cyber-Physical Systems Adaptation for Vibration-Based Occupant Monitoring“ \nSPEAKER: Shijia Pan\, Assistant Professor\, Computer Science\, and Engineering\, UC Merced \nRegister to attend >  \n \nBIO: Dr. Shijia Pan is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Merced. She received her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems\, Internet-of-Things (IoT)\, and ubiquitous computing. She worked in multiple disciplines and focused on indoor human information acquisition through ambient sensing. She received Rising Stars in EECS\, Nick G. Vlahakis Graduate Fellowship\, Google Anita Borg Scholarship\, Best Paper Awards (IoTDI\, ASME SHM/NDE\, HASCA)\, Best Poster Awards (SenSys\, IPSN)\, Best Demo Award (Ubicomp\, BuildSys)\, Best Presentation Award (SenSys Doctoral Colloquium)\, and Audience Choice Award (BuildSys) from ACM/IEEE conferences.\n \nABSTRACT: The number of everyday smart devices is projected to grow to billions in the coming decade\, which enables various smart building applications. These applications\, especially in-home long-term occupant monitoring\, rely on emerging device-free human sensing techniques. From the system perspective\, we introduce an alternative non-intrusive sensing modality through ambient structural vibration to indirectly infer fine-grained occupant information. However\, due to the complexity of the physical world\, sensing data distributions face severe domain variances. Therefore\, from the data perspective\, accurate information learning through pure data-driven approaches requires a large amount of labeled data\, which is costly and difficult to obtain in practice. We address these challenges by combining physical and data-driven knowledge in learning. \nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry\, and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, this series highlights leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Each seminar takes place on Wednesdays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PT. Have a suggestion for a great speaker? Please use this form to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-shijia-pan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210927T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210927T170000
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SUMMARY:DREAMS/CPAR Seminar - tbd
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). \nSPEAKER:  \nTITLE:  \nZOOM: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97238125697 \n* PLACE HEAD SHOT HERE \nABSTRACT: \nBIO: \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars will be held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS: http://bit.ly/SubscribeCITRIS
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/dreams-cpar-seminar-tbd-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210928T114500
DTSTAMP:20260403T153753
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SUMMARY:2021 CITRIS Seed Funding Info Session
DESCRIPTION:The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term\, targeted awards to further the institute’s research priorities for societal benefit\, catalyze early results that can lead to significant funding and strengthen connections across UC campuses. \nProposals are invited from principal investigators at UC Berkeley\, UC Davis\, UC Davis Health\, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and the innovative spirit of California. \nProjects must address the following Grand Challenges in Information Technology:\n🌱 Climate Resilience\n🌱 Digital Health Innovation\n🌱 Next-Generation Technology Policy\n🌱 Automation and the Workforce \nFor full RFP text\, application portal access\, timelines\, FAQ\, and more\, visit: https://citris-uc.org/labs-programs/seed-funding/citris-core-seed-funding/ \nWe hope to see you at this first info session!
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/2021-citris-seed-funding-info-session/
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