Baskin SOE Role in California Institutes for Science and Innovation

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

Created to fuel the California bio-economy, QB3 is a multi-disciplinary research institute at the University of California armed with world-class researchers, state-of-the-art facilities, and a set of entrepreneurial resources designed to accelerate discovery and innovation that benefit society. One of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation, QB3 unites quantitative, biological, and structural scientists at three UC campuses - Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz - with private industry collaborators to address problems concerning human health. QB3 aims to harness the quantitative sciences to integrate our understanding of biological systems at all levels of complexity - from atoms and protein molecules to cells, tissues, organs, and the entire organism. QB3 scientists attack problems that have been simply unapproachable before, setting the stage for fundamental new discoveries, new products, and new technologies. Several UCSC researchers participate in QB3. At UC Santa Cruz, QB3 is a part of the Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering.

Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) will create information technology to tackle society’s most critical needs. CITRIS research will focus initially on the areas of energy efficiency, transportation, seismic safety, education, health care, and environmental monitoring.

CITRIS was spurred by Governor Gray Davis’s call for visionary new UC Centers for Science and Innovation. In a powerful partnership between four University of California campuses, California industry, and the State of California, CITRIS will deliver the technical foundations to meet California’s urgent public-sector needs in years, not decades, and lead the way in creating the information technology infrastructure we need for a vibrant 21st century society.

CITRIS participants are grouped by research areas that reflect the Center's goal of producing useful technology: design principles, architectures, software tools, algorithms, and Societial-scale Information System (SIS) prototypes. Baskin School of Engineering faculty are key participating investigators in these initiatives:

• Services-enabled Distributed System Architecture for SISs
  J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CE
  Darrell Long, CS *
  Patrick Mantey, CE *
  Charlie McDowell, CS
• Integrated Microsystems
  Ali Shakouri, EE
  Jiayuan Fang, EE
  Claire Gu, EE *
  Ken Pedrotti, EE
• Human-centered Computing
  Suresh Lodha, CS
• Smart Classrooms
  J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CE
  Patrick Mantey, CE *
  Alex Pang, CS
• Environmental Monitoring
  Pat Mantey, EE *
  John Vesecky, EE
• Algorithms
  David Helmbold, CS
  Manfred Warmuth, CS
• Education Plan
  J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CE
  Pat Mantey, CE *

* Key Participating Investigator