Five College of Engineering Projects Receive CITRIS Seed Awards
University of California, Davis, engineers are members of five of the six multicampus, interdisciplinary research teams selected by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, or CITRIS, at the University of California, to receive 2023 CITRIS Seed Awards. The winning proposals were announced on Dec. 15.
CITRIS Seed Awards provide financial support for research that uses information technology to address challenges in various sectors. Sustainability and health, as well as artificial intelligence, were common themes among the 2023 awardees.
The selected research projects with team members from the UC Davis College of Engineering are:
- Advanced nanofabrication of semiconductor quantum hardware based on silicon color centers
Principal investigators: Marina Radulaski (lead PI, UC Davis), Alp Sipahigil (UC Berkeley) - Deep non-invasive in vivo printing using direct sound printing
Principal investigators: Mohsen Habibi (lead PI, UC Davis), Gavin Caesar (UC Davis Health), Barbara Linke (UC Davis), James P. Marcin (UC Davis Health), Clifford Pereira (UC Davis Health) - Metabolic watchdog system for improved self-management of Type 1 diabetes among young adults
Principal investigators: Samuel King (lead PI, UC Davis), Stephanie Crossen (UC Davis Health) - Real-time microbial insight into the soil carbon cycle
Principal investigators: Colleen Josephson (lead PI, UC Santa Cruz), Rajeevan Amirtharajah (UC Davis), Hannah Waterhouse (UC Santa Cruz) - Temperature-adaptive radiative coating for thermal comfort in energy-poor communities
Principal investigators: Junqiao Wu (lead PI, UC Berkeley), Vinod Narayanan (UC Davis)
Read the full announcement at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
