CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
…Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This also includes collaborations with labs at Stanford University through CSMI. Postdoctoral research fellows…
…CITRIS Foundry programs internationally, establishing robust research consortiums and developing a global network of collaborators. In what ways do corporate partnerships intersect with CITRIS’s primary research areas? Corporate partnerships are…
…Professor Shankar Sastry Director Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society Berkeley selected to lead BP Energy Research Consortium UC Berkeley has been selected by BP to…
…for medical research laboratories across the US. Following the final tests, five of the robotic systems will be delivered to medical robotics researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, UC…
…Participatory action research (PAR); Participatory planning; Service learning courses, etc. Whatever terms we all use, each involves collaborations with communities outside academia for research and/or teaching. This event is sponsored…
…years ago and has since served as Chair of EECS, Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory, Associate Dean for Research, and the founding Director and CEO of the Berkeley Educational…
…Big data has arrived for a fast-growing field of biological research: cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). As a research tool for ‘structural biology’, researchers worldwide are turning to cryo-EM to illuminate the…
A CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar with speaker Gerald Friedland. TALK TITLE: “A Measurements-Based Approach to Machine Learning” SPEAKER: Gerald Friedland, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley…
Amidst the excitement of up-and-coming artificial intelligence (AI) models, there is growing concern among academics that the hefty price of working with the technology is compromising independent research. As tech…
…requiring talented, knowledgeable, and dynamic educators, researchers, management, and staff. The incumbent uses advanced concepts and methods to meet strategic and operational objectives of the Center for Information Technology Research…
…James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (2006), Miller Professorship (2007) Research Interests My research interests are in experimental condensed matter physics. We synthesize and characterize novel materials with unusual…
…reach of high-quality care into the most remote areas. The project was Seed Funded by CITRIS. Researchers, who began international field testing in the DR Congo during summer 2008,…
…fields to the wires and measured the responses from the nanodisks. By starting each cycle at full saturation — that is, using a field strong enough to align all the…
…housing research equipment to enabling researchers to manufacture and try out new materials and approaches. For more information: International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Berkeley Quantum Information & Computation Center Giant…
…of 30 years ago, the personal robotics industry will take off and become an economic engine. But robotics is a complex, multidisciplinary field, and fielding successful applications requires expertise ranging…
…these technologies and discoveries, a new field called synthetic biology has emerged. Synthetic biology applies engineering principles to biology so that we can test our current understanding of cell design…
…into serious consideration. As physicists, we like to make stuff. We use these skills (and field work) to design solutions for extremely resource constrained settings, specially in the field of…
…instrument innovation leading to chemical characterization at the nanometer scale within the electron microscope), and the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (for fundamental research in the development of near-field optical imaging)….
…field. The researchers used records of repeating earthquakes along the San Andreas fault that Nadeau developed and maintained. The data were from Parkfield, Calif., an area which has experienced a…
…about to enter the third year of his PhD program at Berkeley. His field, neuroscience, is undergoing a revolution of sorts. Traditionally, it has emphasized the observable, anatomical, biological, and…
Ken Goldberg and Brandie Nonnecke and Sanjay Krishnan and Camille Crittenden The CAFE platform was awarded the 2017-2018 Chancellor’s Award for Research in the Public Interest, which recognizes research that…
…Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute drive interdisciplinary innovation for social good with faculty researchers and students from four University of California campuses…
…order to better understand which areas of habitat the species prefers and potentially determine the best ways to protect them. This field research was part of the first-ever drone Pilot…
…The Wildland Academy gives FIRE Foundry recruits access to critical experiential learning opportunities, from performing controlled burns to field-testing innovative technologies developed by Berkeley engineers and partner organizations. One of…
