CITRIS UC Santa Cruz leadership and staff
Citation
CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Santa Cruz. “Leadership & Staff.” Web page, citris.ucsc.edu, date not stated. https://citris.ucsc.edu/leadershipstaff/. Read 2026-10-26.
Bottom line
- Katia Obraczka is campus director, and a professor of computer networks and distributed systems. Michael Matkin is Executive Director.
- The page lists five people. The drone program, CIDER, “accepts external drone contracts employing the trained student workforce”.
Background
See CITRIS UC Santa Cruz homepage.
Key claims
- Katia Obraczka: “campus director of CITRIS at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a professor at UC Santa Cruz’s Jack Baskin School of Engineering.” Research: “computer networks, distributed systems, internet information systems, operating systems.”
- Michael Matkin manages “programs at the UC Santa Cruz main campus, MBEST Center and Silicon Valley extension.”
- Saara Korpela, administrative and program assistant.
- Becca Fenwick, CIDER Director: CIDER “brings together students, researchers and industry partners from many sectors to fuel research and innovation and develop a diverse drone workforce.”
- Michael Hang, CIDER Education Coordinator.
Evidence and method
The institute’s own page.
Limits
- No contact details other than the general address on the homepage.