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Three College of Engineering Projects Receive CITRIS Seed Awards

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Three assistant professors from the University of California, Davis, Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Computer Science are members of three of the four multicampus research teams selected by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute, or CITRIS, to receive a 2025 CITRIS Seed Award.  

Each of the four teams will receive up to $60,000 to propel their early-stage research into technology-driven solutions to some of society’s most pressing challenges.  

The selected research projects with team members from the UC Davis College of Engineering are:  

  • AERO-SENSE: Autonomous environmental robotics for onboard sensing and estimation of near-surface environments 
    Principal investigators: Javier González-Rocha (lead PI, UC Santa Cruz), Camli Badrya (UC Davis) 
  • Maximizing grid infrastructure capacity for electrification 
    Principal investigators: Duncan Callaway (lead PI, UC Berkeley), Alan Jenn (UC Davis) 
  • Point-of-care cardiovascular assessment for earlier detection of preeclampsia and heart failure in at-risk pregnant patients 
    Principal investigators: Lihong Mo (lead PI, UC Davis Health), Dongyu Liu (UC Davis) 

Read the full announcement at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

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