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.
154
Funded Projects
Seeding Novel Technologies
Since 2007, CITRIS has distributed over $9.5Million dollars to funded initiatives.
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
M. Saif Islam
Campus Director
FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Cristina Davis
Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research and Strategic Initiatives
James Marcin
Co-Director
UC Davis Health
Nick Anderson
Co-Director
UC Davis Health
Raissa M. D'Souza
CITRIS Advisory Board
Bahram Ravani
CITRIS Advisory Board
WORKFORCE INNOVATION PROGRAM
Meera Swamynathan
Digital Health
Pan Lab, UC Merced
Corrine Nicholson
Climate
Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis
Alise Chavanapanit
Climate
Takachar
Sukhman Kahlon
Semiconductors
SiCatalyst Partner
Jennifer Lainez
Climate
Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis
Hyet Myat
Robotics
Inano Research Lab, UC Davis
Jorge Garcia
Robotics
Starvos Lab
Matthew Pena
Aviation
JetZero
Naia Dalal
Robotics
SiCatalyst
Zbynka Kekula
Semiconductors
R-Lab, UC Davis
Eric VanAcker
Robotics
Inano Research Lab, UC Davis
Jiaxin Chen
Robotics
Advantest
Arya Venkatesh
Robotics
SK Hynix
Ijada Nguyen
Climate
Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis
Sizhuo Sun
Semiconductors
SKHynix
Chun "Ray" Tam
Robotics
Starvos Lab, UC Davis
Isabella Elliot
Aviation
JetZero
Teodora Petrovic
Robotics
Inano Research Lab, UC Davis
Joanne Liu
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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