CITRIS About (web)
Citation
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. “About.” Web page, date not stated. https://citris-uc.org/about/. Read 2026-11-05.
Bottom line
- CITRIS is a four-campus UC institute (Berkeley, Davis, Merced, Santa Cruz). The California Legislature created it in 2001 as one of four Institutes for Science and Innovation.
- The page describes each campus’s role. UC Berkeley holds the headquarters building, Sutardja Dai Hall, with the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory, the Invention Lab and the CITRIS Foundry.
Background
CITRIS is the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. The page gives its purpose, its origin in the Governor’s 2000 Institutes for Science and Innovation, and a paragraph for each of its four campuses. CITRIS mission and history (web) gives the longer history.
Key claims
- “The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) leverage the research strengths of the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz, and operate within the greater ecosystem of the University and the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley.” (About)
- “In 2000, the California governor’s office launched four visionary Institutes for Science and Innovation. The state of California, the University of California and hundreds of leading businesses joined together in an unprecedented partnership to lay the foundation for California’s future economic and social development. CITRIS was created in 2001 as one of these four interdisciplinary institutes at the University of California by the California state legislature” (History)
- “CITRIS at UC Berkeley is located at the seven-story Sutardja Dai Hall building. The location holds many labs and facilities, including the Berkeley Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory, the Invention Lab and the CITRIS Foundry.” (CITRIS Campuses, UC Berkeley)
- “Home to the UC Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety, UC Merced is a leader in UAV/UAS research.” (CITRIS Campuses, UC Merced)
- “CITRIS at Santa Cruz’s research themes in sustainable infrastructures include the design of microgrids and energy-management solutions, machine learning in monitoring and control of cyber-physical systems (CPS) and data analytics” (CITRIS Campuses, UC Santa Cruz)
Evidence and method
The institute’s own page. It gives no budget, staff count or governance detail.
Limits
The page does not say how CITRIS is funded today, who governs it, or how it relates to the UC Office of the President. The library’s other CITRIS pages are about the UC Santa Cruz campus unit (CITRIS UC Santa Cruz homepage).