CITRIS at UC DAVIS

Creating information technology for society’s most pressing challenges

CITRIS by the numbers

48

CITRIS Foundry Startups

Accelerating Entrepreneurship

Funded start-ups designed projects for society’s most pressing challenges. 

442

Faculty Partners

Academic Certified

Research-driven with 442 faculty partners, 321 students, and 55 Postdocs.

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Funded Projects

Seeding Novel Technologies

Since 2007, CITRIS has distributed over $9.5Million dollars to funded initiatives.

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Creating information technology for society’s most pressing challenges

UC Davis is renowned for cross-disciplinary research and teaching that draw upon 100 academic majors, 87 graduate programs, and professional schools in business, education, law, medicine, nursing, and veterinary medicine. The campus connects the greater Sacramento region with the Bay Area, the Delta and Sierra, and the Central Valley. CITRIS at UC Davis brings expertise in engineering, nanoscience, law, and medicine to bear on complex challenges related to food, health, the environment, and society. See the link below for some of the people that makes CITRIS who we are.

CITRIS at UC Davis hosts multiple research labs including the CITRIS Aviation Lab in Academic Surge, Visual Thinking Lab in Bainer Hall, Environmental Robotics Laboratory at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC), and the Center for Spaceflight Research in East Davis.

Get to know our team

Meet the people that make CITRIS at UC Davis what it is.

LEADERSHIP AND STAFF

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M. Saif Islam

Campus Director

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Shavaun Diallo

Assistant Director CITRIS Davis

FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Cristina Davis

Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives 

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James Marcin

Co-Director 

UC Davis Health

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Nick Anderson

Co-Director 

UC Davis Health

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Raissa M. D'Souza

CITRIS Advisory Board

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Bahram Ravani

CITRIS Advisory Board

WORKFORCE INNOVATION PROGRAM

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Meera Swamynathan

Digital Health

Pan Lab, UC Merced

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Corrine Nicholson

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Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis

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Alise Chavanapanit

Climate

Takachar

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Sukhman Kahlon

Semiconductors

SiCatalyst Partner

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Jennifer Lainez

Climate

Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis

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Hyet Myat

Robotics

Inano Research Lab, UC Davis

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Jorge Garcia

Robotics

Starvos Lab

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Matthew Pena

Aviation

JetZero

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Naia Dalal

Robotics

SiCatalyst

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Zbynka Kekula

Semiconductors

R-Lab, UC Davis

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Eric VanAcker

Robotics

Inano Research Lab, UC Davis

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Jiaxin Chen

Robotics

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Arya Venkatesh

Robotics

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Ijada Nguyen

Climate

Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis

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Sizhuo Sun

Semiconductors

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Chun "Ray" Tam

Robotics

Starvos Lab, UC Davis

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Isabella Elliot

Aviation

JetZero

Teodora Petrovic

Robotics

Inano Research Lab, UC Davis

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Climate

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CITRIS Growing Reach

CITRIS is proud to be a multidisciplinary institution having ongoing initiatives across four of the ten campuses of the University of California. Our branches at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Merced.

Sutardja Dai Hall in Berkeley is our HQ. The magnificent building hosts the CITRIS Invention Lab, a rapid prototyping space used by UC entrepreneurs in our CITRIS Foundry startup accelerator program and the student maker community. 

CITRIS at UC Davis brings expertise in engineering, nanoscience, law, and medicine to bear on complex challenges related to food, health, the environment, and society.

CITRIS Santa Cruz explores the design of new systems for immersive video and augmented reality, intelligent media for social good, and exploring the intersection of computing approaches from artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and software engineering with art and design.

The University of California Merced is a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the campus specializes in gathering scientific data using unmanned aerial vehicles, with the goal of developing practical solutions in the fields of agriculture and landscape ecology.

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