Mission
The main goals of the center are to sponsor critical fundamental research and high-impact applications in the emerging fields of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and at the same time serve as the central hub to facilitate the deployment of disruptive VR, AR, and AI technologies across the Berkeley campus for cross-disciplinary research and education.
We aim to achieve these goals by offering seed grant to our faculty, supervising and facilitating student research activities, and fostering external industry partnerships with other stakeholders.
Team
Leadership
Shankar Sastry
Founding Director
Allen Y. Yang
Executive Director
Shannon Jackson
Chief Creative Officer
Yi Ma
Chief Scientist
Bertram Lubin
Chief Medical Officer
Advisory Board
Wenchi Chen
President and CEO of VIA Technologies Inc
Cher Wang
Co-founder and Chairperson HTC Corp, Chairperson VIA Technologies INC
Mark Meltzer
Senior VP, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
Thomas Nesbitt
CITRIS Chief Scientist
Harry Shum
Executive Vice President, Technology & Research, Microsoft Corporation.
Mark Liu
President and Co-Chief Executive Officer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
Researchers
Ruzena Bajcsy
EECS Professor
Francesco Borrelli
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Luisa Caldas
Professor of Architecture and Director of XR Lab
Lee Fleming
IEOR Professor and Faculty Director of Coleman Fung Institute
Bjoern Hartmann
EECS Professor and Faculty Director for Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Richard Hernandez
Associate Professor of Journalism and Bloomberg Chair
Jack McCauley
Innovator in Residence at Jacobs Institute
James O’Brien
Professor in Computer Science
Ren Ng
EECS Professor
Kathryn Quigley
Senior Media Producer and Director of Inventors’ Lab at Lawrence Hall of Science
Koushil Sreenath
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Claire J. Tomlin
EECS Professor
Stella Yu
Director of Vision at ISCI Vision Group
Visiting Researchers
Jason Chou
Xili Dai
Partners
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