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The 2024–25 CITRIS Aviation Prize brings together students, researchers and professionals from diverse backgrounds to design critical aviation simulations and subsystems, integrating air transit into campus transportation networks and empowering efficient intercampus travel.
This competition is open to all students at the four CITRIS campuses at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Merced and UC Santa Cruz.
Learn more and apply by Nov. 15.
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Developed in part with support from a 2022 Seed Award, the Interactive Care Platform — called I-Care for short — responds to the needs of a growing population of older adults with cognitive impairment, allowing them to continue to live safely in their own homes for as long as possible. Led by UC Davis Health neuropsychologist Alyssa Weakley, I-Care helps patients organize their schedules and activities, interact with their families and support systems, and maintain an independent lifestyle.
The platform, which has been augmented by the expertise of CITRIS PIs Shijia Pan of UC Merced and Hao-Chuan Wang of UC Davis, has moved from the simulation suite to an in-home pilot study, providing Weakley and team with vital user feedback to improve the technology’s accessibility.
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The AI Policy Hub, a interdisciplinary initiative launched in 2022 by CITRIS and the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, has announced its 2024–25 cohort of graduate fellows.
Over the next year, these six students will conduct policy research and use their findings to inform the course of policymakers and other AI decision-makers, impacting the real-time development of responsible artificial intelligence.
The class comprises doctoral students Syomantak Chaudhuri, Jaiden Fairoze, Ezinne Nwankwo and Laura Pathak; master’s degree student Mengyu “Ruby” Han; and J.D. candidate Audrey Mitchell.
Read more from the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.
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Shima Nazari, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Davis, works on the electrification of off-road machinery.
One of her recent projects, supported in part by a 2022 CITRIS Seed Award, seeks to electrify the California Department of Transportation’s work vehicles, including loaders, excavators and street sweepers. These complex, off-road vehicles contribute to roughly half of the carbon emissions generated by construction work, and electrification is a viable route to alleviate their environmental impact. Nazari’s lab is developing control system models to better understand the machinery’s duty cycles and meet their demanding battery requirements.
“Control systems are really my thing,” says Nazari. “It has all the components of mechanical engineering — thinking about how different parts of the system have to work together to get the best outcome, the best efficiency, the best performance — and it is all about math, which I love the most.”
Read more from the UC Davis College of Engineering.
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The CITRIS Policy Lab, in partnership with UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and School of Information, is excited to welcome the latest cohort of the UC Berkeley Tech Policy Fellows program. This exceptional group of 25 public and private sector innovators from across the globe will conduct research and collaborate with the UC Berkeley community to advance responsible technology.
The 2024–25 fellows are:
AI for Public Service Delivery
- William Cutler
- Kambria Dumesnil
- Claire Foulquier-Gazagnes
- Sabine Gerdon
- Melanie Kolbe-Guyot
- Gideon Lichfield
Comparative Policy and Standards Analysis
- Debora Comparin
- Sissi De La Peña Mendoza
- Christine Galvagna
- Melissa Hopkins
- Nikhil Mulani
Content Moderation
- Stephanie Haven
- Isabelle Higgins
- Seppe Kelchtermans
- Jeff Lazarus
- Joanna Smolinska
Human Rights
- Abeera Akhtar
- Meri Baghdasaryan
- Stefanie Coyle
- Ritu Narula
- Imogen Resnick
Improving Diversity in AI
- Laura Carter
- Gabrielle Hurtubise-Radet
- Naureen Rizvi
- Maitreya Shah
Read more from the CITRIS Policy Lab.
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Investigators from the University of California campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz are invited to submit proposals for the inaugural CITRIS Innovation Fellowship program and the AIC Awards. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who hold UC principal investigator status are also eligible.
A partnership between CITRIS and the Banatao Institute and the Academic Innovation Catalyst (AIC), the program aims to transform faculty research into viable commercial solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.
All areas of relevance to CITRIS’s mission will be considered, with advanced aviation, aerospace, AI for good, climate resilience and other deep tech applications of special interest in this first year.
Three awards worth up to $200,000 over two years are available.
An information session will be held on Sept. 11. Please apply by Oct. 7.
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