CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
Clinical/Research Interests
Dr. Sandrock has clinical interests in respiratory infections, community-acquired and viral pneumonia, and ICU-acquired infections. His research interests include emerging infectious diseases at the animal and human interface, particularly respiratory infections such as avian influenza, SARS, and other diseases acquired by humans.
Director, CITRIS Aviation
I am Professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where I have been part of the faculty since the Fall of 2001. During these years I have joined the effort of founding the department and starting its core programs. Before coming to Santa Cruz, I was a founding member of the Center for Statistics and Mathematical Software as well as of the Department of Scientific Computing and Statistics of Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela.
CITRIS Director Emeritus (2005–07)
AnnaLee Saxenian is Dean and Professor in the School of Information and professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006), explores how the “brain circulation” by immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley has transferred technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in China, India, Taiwan, and Israel.
Prof. Anna Scaglione received the Laurea (M.Sc. degree) in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in 1999 from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza.” She is currently Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Davis, where she joined in 2008. She was previously at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, from 2001 where became Associate Professor in 2006; prior to joining Cornell she was Assistant Professor in the year 2000-2001, at the University of New Mexico.
Professor of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis
Prof. Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow with
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001, where he is currently a Professor of electrical engineering and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Davis
Professor Schruben is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on simulation. His interests lie in optimization and design of experiments for complex systems, as well as optimization of hi-tech production and operations.
Research Summary:
Soil/structure interaction; slope stability and performance of dams and waste fills, geotechnical earthquake engineering
Professor, Vice Chair of Serious Games Program, Computational Media
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Davis
A liquid, if it does not crystallize on cooling, can undergo a “glass transition”, a falling-out-of equilibrium in terms of motion and rearrangement of its molecular constituents. The rapid increase in viscosity near the glass transition temperature, Tg, transforms the flowing liquid into a rigid solid without the long-range order characteristic of crystals.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Carlo H. Séquin is a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. degree in experimental physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1969. From 1970 till 1976 he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, on the design and investigation of Charge-Coupled Devices for imaging and signal processing applications. At Bell Labs he also got introduced to the world of Computer Graphics in classes given by Ken Knowlton.
Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Computational Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Lagrangian Coherent Structures, Mathematical Modeling, Thrombosis
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Davis
Professor In-Residence of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley
Professor
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
I work mainly on the design, analysis and control of stochastic systems such as communication andmanufacturing systems. However, a good part of my effort is directed towards developing methodologies tosimplify these tasks.
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley
Professor Jonathan Shewchuk obtained his B.Sc. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, 1990, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, the latter in 1997. He joined the Computer Science Division of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley in 1998.
Justin Short is an M. Arch candidate of the University of California, Berkeley. The John K. Branner Fellowship affords a year of independent study and travel. His proposal examines the physical implications—collateral architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure—of varied postures in material provenance.
Medical Director
UC Davis School of Medicine
