CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
Creating information technology solutions for society's most pressing challenges
The CITRIS Foundry welcomes twelve new teams covering a variety of tech fields from wildfire detection and artificial intelligence to pharmaceutical testing and water sustainability. The six-month CITRIS Foundry incubator…
…for Scholars; Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) Panelists: Meg Hardon, Head of Government Affairs at Infineon Technologies Eric W. Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science…
…The Center for 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…
…fill a gap that the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) is uniquely positioned to fill, and will support hundreds of…
…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…
…master’s degree is required, and a Ph.D. is an asset. Preference will be given to candidates studying agriculture, agricultural engineering or technology, environmental systems, and food systems. Field-based research and…
…the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award for her contribution in the field of computer graphics. ABOUT THE SERIES: CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday…
…vision, as well as the field of medical imaging. Paolo D’Odorico, recipient of a 2021 Seed Award and a professor of water resources at UC Berkeley, was also honored, for…
…research in robot learning, including robot learning from demonstrations and deep reinforcement learning for robotic control. The ACM Prize in Computing honors early- to mid-career computer scientists whose work has…
The UC Santa Cruz CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) and several partners have received a $1 million, 15-month planning grant to support regional drone education and workforce development from The…
…fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) — a process currently used in the medical field — for improving agricultural practices. An award from the UC Davis Office of Research Interdisciplinary Research Catalyst…
Self-driving vehicles from General Motors called Cruise cars are causing traffic snarls on the streets of San Francisco. Ironically, research by CITRIS PI Alexandre Bayen, UC Berkeley associate provost for…
…researcher affiliated with the CITRIS People and Robots initiative, notes both the simplicity and danger of AI-powered drones. According to a poll he conducted with colleagues, there’s consensus in the…
…and the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER) director. Duties include: Coordinating intercampus programs, including Tech for Social Good, Seed Funding and CIDER initatives Performing administrative operations Coordinating…
…about the challenges still facing self-driving personal vehicles. “Humans are even more complex to model and anticipate in many ways,” Bayen said. “The field of mixed autonomy (in which humans…
Investigators at the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), a California Institute for Science & Innovation at the University of California…
…resilience. Grants of up to $40,000 will support research aimed at developing solutions to California’s climate challenges. Magy Seif El-Nasr, chair of the Department of Computational Media, will lead a…
An international team of researchers — including Erin Hestir, campus director of CITRIS at UC Merced — spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the world’s…
…this year, the program features an agriculture track to help students hone skills specific to that field. Directed by CITRIS researcher Becca Fenwick, CIDER was established in 2021 and welcomed…
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute are seeking applicants for a key staff position at the UC Berkeley headquarters, to help support the institution’s mission of advancing information technology research for…
In a new TechCrunch series on prominent women in artificial intelligence (AI) research, Brandie Nonnecke, director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, offers insight into the roles that users, developers and…
The third cohort of the Pilot Training Program, which launched at UC Santa Cruz in 2021 under the direction of the CITRIS Initiative for Drone Education and Research (CIDER), is…
…sensor data collection, field operations, security and privacy, and much more. UC Santa Cruz experts, research partners from other UC campuses and industry representatives are all welcome. Registration is required….
In a new paper in Science Robotics, CITRIS researcher Ken Goldberg suggests that an “Augmented Dexterity” approach that pairs experienced surgeons with specialized robotic systems could lead to better patient…
