Website: citris.ucmerced.edu
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is a multi-campus Institute of Science and Innovation creating and translating technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental, and healthcare problems. CITRIS was created “to shorten the pipeline” between discovery and its positive impact on society through world-class research and entrepreneurship. CITRIS facilitates partnerships and collaborations among hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students from numerous departments at four University of California campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz) with industrial researchers and community members. Together, the groups are thinking about information technology in ways that have never been thought of before. UC Merced’s node of CITRIS engages faculty and students in a number of research efforts that occur at Merced alone as well as with the partner campuses in CITRIS. CITRIS investigators at UC Merced work in the areas of clean energy, cyberphysical systems, autonomy, and agrifood technologies, in addition to aspects of tech policy and advancing inclusive innovation. CITRIS at UC Merced is also the home of several unique opportunities for student led community engagement, including NexTech, FLY CITRIS, and hackathons.
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