CITRIS AND THE BANATAO INSTITUTE - Key Persons
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- Multimedia Manager
- Title Multimedia Manager
As the CITRIS multimedia manager, Adriel Olmos produces CITRIS research and special events through visual storytelling mediums such as short films and photography. His background in short documentaries and commercial narratives influences his style and approach to science storytelling. His portfolio of work is available on Vimeo and featured throughout the CITRIS site.
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- Policy Analyst
- Project Policy Analyst, CITRIS Health
- Title CITRIS Project Policy Analyst
Alex Blumstein is a policy analyst within the CITRIS Health initiative, where he helps support a variety of projects involving health and technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), telehealth and health informatics. He has a background in public health, mostly working in aging and climate change.
Blumstein earned his B.A. at the University of California, Davis and earned his master's degree in public health from Touro University California.
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- Member of the Bayshore Global Management Team
- Secretary / California Government Operations Agency
- Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency
- Title Secretary, Government Operations Agency
Amy Tong is secretary of the California Government Operations Agency and a member of the CITRIS and the Banatao Institute advisory board.
As state chief information officer and director of the California Department of Technology from 2016-20, Amy Tong was responsible for advising the governor on the strategic management of the state's information technology resources. Tong has nearly 25 years of business, technology and management experience in the public sector. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in management information systems and a Master of Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento.
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- Title Visiting Scholar
- Visiting Scholar, CITRIS People and Robots
Andra Keay is a visiting scholar with CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR). She is also the managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics, a nonprofit industry group supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Keay is also the founder of the Robot Launch global startup competition, Robot Garden maker space and Women in Robotics, and serves as a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and think tanks, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and AI.
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- Dean of the School
- Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science / Princeton University
- People
Andrea Goldsmith is dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. Her research is to develop novel techniques, protocols, and designs for future wireless systems and networks. Her specific research areas include the design and capacity analysis of wireless systems and networks, multiple-antenna wireless networks, cognitive radios, sensor and networks, cross-layer wireless network design, and applications of communications and signal processing to health and neuroscience.
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- Finance and Administration Manager
- Title Finance and Administration Manager
Angelica Gonzalez is the finance and administration manager at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. She is responsible for financial management, human resources procedures and the CITRIS budget. Prior to joining CITRIS, she worked as a financial analyst for the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
Gonzalez is an alumna of UC Berkeley, with a double major in Chicano studies and Spanish. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, spending time with her dogs and volunteering.
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- Member at UC Davis
- Title Warren and Leta Giedt Endowed Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- UC Davis Director Emeritus
Ravani has been a faculty member at UC Davis since 1987. He was interim chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2005-08 and chair of what was then the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from 1996-2001. His current areas of research include robotics and mechatronics; mechanical design and manufacturing including applications of robotics, mechatronics and informatics; intelligent transportation systems and highway safety, and dynamics and biomechanics.
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- UC Davis Director Emeritus
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- Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory
- Executive Director, Marvell NanoLab
- Title Executive Director, Marvell NanoLab
Bill Flounders is the Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory. He received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1985 and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. His graduate research was primarily conducted in the U.C. Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory and focused upon exposed gate field effect transistors for chemical sensor applications. Bill completed post-doctoral research in immunology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture with an emphasis on immobilization, stabilization, and patterning of antibodies on semiconductor substrates. From 1996 to 2001, Bill was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. Bill's research program at Sandia developed biosensors for chemical and biological agent detection and custom equipment for wafer-scale biochemical processing.
In 2001, Bill returned to the Berkeley Microlab as the Technology Manager. He provided technical guidance to researchers of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center and was the primary laboratory consultant for design and planning of the next generation of the Berkeley Microlab, the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory (The NanoLab). The NanoLab opened in 2009, and Bill oversaw the two year transition and start-up of over 150 micro/nanofabrication tools in the new facility. Presently, the Berkeley NanoLab provides research capabilities to over 450 researchers per year representing more than 70 academic principal investigators and more than 25 affiliate member companies, primarily Bay Area technical start-ups.
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- Director, CITRIS Policy Lab
- Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley
- Title Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab
Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab at UC Berkeley. She is a Technology and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She served as a fellow at the Aspen Institute's Tech Policy Hub and at the World Economic Forum on the Council on the Future of the Digital Economy and Society. She was selected as a 2018 RightsCon Young Leader in Human Rights in Tech and received the 2019 Emerging Scholar Award at the 15th Intl. Common Ground Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Her research has been featured in Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, PC Mag, Buzzfeed News, Fortune, Mashable, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
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- Executive Director
- Member of the CITRIS Leadership Team
- Title Executive Director
Camille Crittenden, Ph.D., is the executive director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and co-founder of the CITRIS Policy Lab and the EDGE (Expanding Diversity and Gender Equity) in Tech Initiative at UC. She also served as chair of the California Blockchain Working Group in 2019-20.
Prior to coming to CITRIS in 2012, she was executive director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, where she helped to develop its program in human rights, technology and new media. She has written and spoken widely on these topics, as well as technology applications for civic engagement, government transparency and accountability, and the digital divide. She held positions as assistant dean for development with International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley and in development and public relations at University of California Press and San Francisco Opera. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
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- Managing Director of CITRIS Climate
- Title Managing Director, CITRIS Climate
Carl Blumstein is the managing director of CITRIS Climate and the California Institute for Energy and Environment (CIEE), where he has explored the state's and nation's energy challenges inside and out and worked to address them from important angles. He has more than 35 years of experience in energy research and R&D management, and served for 10 years as the associate director of CIEE before becoming the director in 2002. As associate director, he represented UC in the regulatory and legislative proceedings that lead to the establishment of the California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program. Blumstein has worked with the PIER program in a variety of capacities since its inception in 1998. He also has a research appointment at the UC Energy Institute where he has been an energy policy analyst since 1981. His research interests center on energy efficiency and energy policy.
Blumstein's recent work includes publications on evaluation and incentives for energy efficiency programs, administration of energy efficiency programs, restructuring in the electric power supply industry, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the role of market transformation in energy efficiency programs.
Blumstein is chairman of the board of directors of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), a member of the board of trustees of the Consortium for Energy Efficiency and a member of the Gas Technology Institute's Public Interest Advisory Committee. He served on the board of governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003. He has a B.S. from Reed College, an M.S. from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. from UC San Diego in Chemistry.
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- Director, Communications
- Title Director of Communications
At CITRIS headquarters on the UC Berkeley campus, Cheryl leads strategic communications, media relations, outreach programs, and brand identity in coordination with UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz.
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- Senior Lab Manager and Head
- Senior Lab Manager, CITRIS Invention Lab
- Title Senior Lab Manager, CITRIS Invention Lab
Chris Myers is the senior lab manager and head inventioneer for the CITRIS Invention Lab, a maker space at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute that serves the UC Berkeley community. He also teaches at the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
As a graduate of the product design program at The Art Center School of Design in Pasadena, California, Myers has designed a variety of products including concept automobiles, electric vehicles, medical equipment, exhibit design, wearable computers and toys. As a practicing product designer he has worked with many companies including Intel Research, (Xerox)Parc and Nokia Research. Myers has a passion for education and has developed and taught STEM classes for schools, museums and libraries. It is through these classes that he developed a series of robotic drawing toys which are now produced by his company, ArtBot Toys.
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- CEO
- Founder
- CEO of Bia - Echo
Christine Gulbranson is CEO of Bia-Echo. Previously she was the first Chief Innovation Officer for the University of California System, the world's leading public research university system and innovation center. For more than a decade, Christine was CEO of Christalis, a strategic advisory firm engaged to solve highly challenging and complex problems. In the investment realm, she was a Partner at venture capital firm, GCP, as well as a senior advisor to a family office in Europe. As a serial entrepreneur, Christine founded two nanotechnology companies with applications in multiple industries. For her contributions to innovation and business leadership, Christine has been recognized as one of the "Top 40 under 40 Business Leaders in Silicon Valley", as "Innovator for the 21st Century" by MIT's Technology Review, and as "Distinguished Engineering Alumni in Business."
By the age of 25, she earned five degrees from UC Davis - BS in Physics; BS, MS, Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering; and an MBA.
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- Director
- Member of the CITRIS Leadership Team
- Title Director
Costas Spanos is the Director of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. He is also the Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, and the Chief Technical Officer of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS). He has served as the EECS Department Chair and the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at Berkeley. His present research is focusing on energy and sustainability.
As the Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Spanos conducts research on the application of statistical analysis in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits, and the development and deployment of novel sensors and computer-aided techniques in semiconductor manufacturing. He is also using statistical data mining techniques for energy efficiency applications, and is the leader of the Singapore-based SinBerBEST project, focusing on energy efficient buildings.
In 1988, Spanos joined the faculty at UC Berkeley, where he has served as Department Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, the Associate Dean for Research, and the CEO of the Berkeley Educational Alliance for Research in Singapore. Spanos received his master's and doctoral degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981 and 1985, after which he worked for three years at the advanced computer-aided design group of the Digital Equipment Corporation.
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- Chairman of the Advisory Board
- Managing Partner at Tallwood Venture Capital
- Title Chair
The Managing Partner at Tallwood Venture Capital, Dado Banatao has also been a venture partner at the Mayfield Fund. He has co-founded three technology startups: S3 (SBLU), Chips & Technologies (INTC) and Mostron, and held positions in engineering and general management at National Semiconductor, Seeq Technologies, Intersil and Commodore International. Dado pioneered the PC chip set and graphics acceleration architecture that continue to be two of the foundational technologies in all personal computers.
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- Events Coordinator
- Title Events Coordinator
Daisy Hernandez is the events coordinator for CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. She supports the events director in all facets of event planning.
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- Curator, CITRIS Tech Museum / Senior Artist, CITRIS Invention Lab
- Tech Museum and Senior Artist
- Title Curator, CITRIS Tech Museum, and Senior Artist, CITRIS Invention Lab
Dan Chapman is curator of the CITRIS Tech Museum and senior artist in the CITRIS Invention Lab.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of CITRIS Health
- Title Executive Director, CITRIS Health
David Lindeman is the executive director of CITRIS Health. Lindeman has worked in the fields of health care and long-term care for nearly 40 years as a health services researcher and gerontologist, conducting research related to health care technology, assistive technologies, chronic disease management, healthy aging, disabilities, dementia, community-based and residential services, health care workforce, and family
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- Head of Research
- Member of the Bayshore Global Management Team
- Head of Research and Collaboration Management U.S
- People
David Rapaport is Head of Research and Collaboration Management U.S. for Siemens Corporate Technology. He leads a team that is responsible for focusing on the company's technological future; defining technology topics and projects; coordinating company activities as the main interface to the North American Siemens region; managing relationships with external technology partners such as government and universities, and enhancing the organization's identity internally and externally.
David graduated with a BA in Biology with Honors, Magna Cum Laude from Brooklyn College. He received his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine from NY College of Podiatric Medicine, Magna Cum Laude, and his M.B.A. in Business Administration from Colorado State University.
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- Director, Facilities & Operations
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- Assistant Administrator
- Assistant Administrator, CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz
- Title Assistant Administrator, CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz
Eric Guerrieri is the assistant administrator for CITRIS and the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center within the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He provides administrative support for CITRIS activities at UCSC. Prior to joining CITRIS at Santa Cruz, Guerrieri worked for several years at nonprofits focused on sustainable transportation, where he specialized in event coordination, database management, community outreach and communications.
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- Director of the CITRIS Invention Lab
- Director, CITRIS Invention Lab
- Founder and Director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a Frequent Collaborator With Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories
- Founder and Director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab
- Title Director, CITRIS Invention Lab
Eric Paulos is the director of the CITRIS Invention Lab, which he co-founded in 2012.
Paulos is also the founder and director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, chief learning officer for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a co-director of the Swarm Lab, and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).
Previously, Paulos held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he was faculty within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute with courtesy faculty appointments in the Robotics Institute and in the Entertainment Technology Center. At CMU he founded and directed the Living Environments Lab.
Prior to CMU, Paulos was a senior research scientist at Intel Research in Berkeley, California, where he founded the Urban Atmospheres research group, which was challenged to employ innovative methods to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in critical making, design research, urban computing, sustainability, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies and intimate media.
Paulos is a leading figure in the field of urban computing, coining the term in 2004, and a regular contributor, editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, where he helped launch a new robotic industry by developing some of the first internet teleoperated robots, including space browsing helium-filled blimps and personal roving presence devices (PRoPs).
Paulos is also the founder and director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a frequent collaborator with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories. His work has been exhibited at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Japan, Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), SFMOMA, the Chelsea Art Museum, Art Interactive, LA MOCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the ZKM and Southern Exposure, and in performance for the opening of the Whitney Museum's 1997 biennial exhibition.
Research interests: cosmetic computing, citizen science, new making renaissance, critical making culture, robotics, DIY and DIYBio, epidermal electronics, urban computing, collaborative consumption, new media, energy materiality.
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- Associate Director, CITRIS at UC Merced
- Associate Professor in Environmental Systems at the University of California
- Title Associate Director, CITRIS at UC Merced
Erin Hestir is an associate professor in environmental systems at the University of California, Merced, where she also serves as associate director of CITRIS at UC Merced. Her research focuses on aquatic ecosystems under threat from competing pressures to meet societal needs for water and food security while sustaining biodiversity and other ecosystem services such as water quality. She has expertise in geospatial analytics, hyperspectral and satellite remote sensing, and sensor networks for inland and coastal waters and wetlands. Hestir also has expertise in the application of remote sensing for water resources and ecosystem management, and in facilitating the adoption of remote sensing for environmental reporting.
Erin Hestir is also an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. She is a member of the International Ocean Color Coordinating Group working group on coastal and inland water quality, and is the North American coordinator for the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network.
Hestir earned her bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from UC Davis. She held a postdoctoral fellowship in Environmental Earth Observation at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, where she led a research program to improve systematic national monitoring of water quality and aquatic ecosystems using Earth observations. Prior to joining UC Merced, Hestir was an assistant professor and Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Fellow at North Carolina State University.
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- Associate Director of CITRIS Health
- Title Associate Director, CITRIS Health
Gale Berkowitz is the associate director of CITRIS Health. Her professional training is in public health policy, evaluation and epidemiology. Her work has tackled some of the most critical social and environmental problems of our time: ensuring access to quality health services, behavioral health, substance use treatment and education; promoting financial inclusion; and reducing the impact of climate change, among others. She has had responsibility for organization-wide evolutions of strategy, operations, change management, and organizational and network learning. She has a track record of building systems that are long-lasting and valued.
Immediately prior to joining CITRIS, Berkowitz was deputy director at Behavioral Health Concepts, providing leadership and technical support for quality improvement of mental health systems throughout California. She is also a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. She has held leadership positions at several foundations in the United States and Canada, including the MasterCard Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. She was also adjunct assistant professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Policy Studies at UC San Francisco.
Berkowitz has extensive teaching experience and is the author or co-author of more than 50 publications. She received her bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins University, and master's and doctorate degrees in public health at UC Berkeley.
Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. Through his career as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then becoming mayor of San Francisco, and now in state government, Newsom has been a leader on issues of equality, the environment, homelessness, and health care. Policies he has initiated and implemented have been duplicated in cities across the nation, and his book Citizenville explores the intersection of democracy and technology for civic benefit.
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- CEO
- Member of the Advisory Board
- CEO of Bayshore Global Management
- People
George Pavlov is the CEO of Bayshore Global Management, a single-family office located in Silicon Valley, where he oversees a broad range of activities. Prior to joining Bayshore, George had been in the investment business for 25 years. George has public company, private company, and not-for-profit board experience.
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- Academic Researcher, CITRIS Health
- Title Academic Researcher, CITRIS Health / Department
Gerald Friedland, Ph.D., is the academic researcher for the CITRIS Health initiative. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at UC Berkeley. Previously, he had been with the International Computer Science Institute for 10 years. His work focuses on large-scale video retrieval, geolocation and privacy.
Friedland is the lead figure behind the Multimedia Commons initiative, a collection of 100 million images and 1 million videos for research, and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in conferences, journals and books. He also co-authored a new textbook on multimedia computing with Cambridge University Press. He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Multimedia Magazine and regularly reviews for IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing; IEEE Transaction on Multimedia; Springer's Machine Vision and Application; and other journals. He is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the European Academic Software Award and the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award by the German Federal Department of Economics.
Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master's degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin in Germany in 2006 and 2002, respectively.
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- Co - Director, CITRIS Health
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- UC Merced Director Emeritus
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and Dean of the School of Information
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- Director, EDGE in Tech Initiative
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
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- Surgical Robotics and Digital Health Program Manager, CITRIS Health
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- Campus Director, UC Merced / Research Initiatives
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- Director, Knowledge Management
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- Member of the Bayshore Global Management Team
- Vice Chancellor for Research
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- Director, CITRIS People and Robots
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- Industry Relations and Innovation Director, CITRIS at UC Merced
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- Program Director, CITRIS at UC Merced
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- Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical
Bahram Ravani is the Warren and Leta Giedt Endowed Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He also serves as co-director of the Advanced Highway Maintenance and Construction Technology Research Center, a collaboration between the California Department of Transportation and UC Davis.
He has served as the chief technical editor of the Journal of Computing and Information Science and Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Design, as well as a past member of the management committee and former editor for design of the ASME/IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics. He is a fellow of ASME and a past recipient of several ASME achievement awards including the Machine Design Award, Design Automation Award, MESA Achievement Award and the Gustus Larson Memorial Award. He has published over 140 technical publications and one graduate-level textbook.
Ravani received his B.S. degree magna cum lauda from Louisiana State University in 1976; M.S. degree from Columbia University in 1978 and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1982, all in mechanical engineering. He was a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before moving to UC Davis.
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- Campus Director, UC Davis
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- Member of the Bayshore Global Management Team
- Interim Vice Chancellor for Research
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- Executive Director
- Executive Director, CITRIS at UC Santa Cruz
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- Academic Program Manager
- Academic Program Manager, CITRIS at UC Davis
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- Co - Director, CITRIS Health
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- Program Manager, CITRIS Workforce Development Program
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- UC Davis Director Emerita
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- UC Santa Cruz Director Emeritus
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- Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley
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- Project Coordinator, CITRIS Aviation
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Vice Chancellor for Research
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- Director, Strategic Initiatives
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- Interim Director Emeritus
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- Director, CITRIS Aviation
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- Managing Director / Prospect Venture Partners
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- Professor Emerita of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley
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- Member of the Bayshore Global Management Team
- Director Emeritus ( 2005 - 07 )
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- Program Coordinator, CITRIS at UC Merced
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- Chief Scientist
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- ACTIVATE Program Manager, CITRIS Health
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Vice President for Research and Innovation
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- UC Davis Health Director Emeritus
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- Director, Finance & Research Support
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Dean of the College of Engineering
- Fellow of the IEEE
- Professor
- Title Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, College of Engineering
Tsu-Jae King Liu received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She joined the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center as a Member of Research Staff in 1992, to research and develop high-performance thin-film transistor technologies for flat-panel display applications. In 1996 she joined the faculty of the University of California, at Berkeley, where she now holds the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Distinguished Professorship in Microelectronics. From 2000 to 2004 and from 2006 to 2008, she served as the Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory. From July 2004 through June 2006 she was Senior Director of Engineering in the Advanced Technology Group of Synopsys, Inc. (Mountain View, CA). From 2008 through 2012, Professor Liu was the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. She also served as Faculty Director of the UC Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory in 2012. From 2012 to 2016 she served as Chair of the Electrical Engineering Division, and from 2014 to 2016 she served as Chair of the EECS Department.
Professor Liu's awards include the Ross M. Tucker AIME Electronics Materials Award (1992) for seminal work in polycrystalline silicon-germanium thin films; an NSF CAREER Award (1998) for research in thin-film transistor technology; the DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award (2000) for development of the FinFET; the Electrical Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching at UC Berkeley (2003); the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2010) for contributions to nanoscale MOS transistors, memory devices, and MEMS devices; the UC Berkeley Faculty Mentor Award (2010); the Electrochemical Society Dielectric Science and Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award (2011) for excellence in dielectrics and insulation investigations; the Intel Outstanding Researcher in Nanotechnology Award (2012); the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) University Researcher Award (2014); and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Aristotle Award (2016). Her research activities are presently in advanced materials, fabrication processes and devices for energy-efficient electronics. She has authored or co-authored over 500 publications and holds over 90 patents.
Professor Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the Board of Directors for Intel Corporation.