Calit2 Irvine Division Report
 Milestones
 Key Research Projects
 Accomplishments
 Significant Issues
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Milestones
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11/19/04: Building opening ceremony
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1/05: Staff move into new building
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2/05: Nicholas Prize competition
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4/05: Researchers began moving into building
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6/05: First meeting of the Irvine Division Faculty Council
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6/05: SURF-IT program launched
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8/05: Intelligent transportation workshop w/UCSD counterparts
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9/05: CyberTrust Workshop
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10/05: MOU signed w/Nat’l Center for Nanomaterials Tech at Pohang Univ.
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11/05: Interface magazine debuts
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2/06: Visit of Governor’s senior advisors
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3/06: Hydrology Workshop w/UCSD counterparts
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4/06: Zeiss Center of Excellence open house
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Major Research Projects and Groups
 ResCUE (NSF) + Responsphere
 HIPerwall (NSF)
 Building health monitoring (NSF & USGS)
 Intelligent transportation (NSF AutoNet)
 Nanotechnology
 MEMS & BioMEMS
 IGB CBRL (Computational Biology Res. Lab)
 LUCI (Laboratory for Ubiquitous
Computing and Interaction)
 Game Culture & Technology Lab
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Materials Research
 Negotiated with Zeiss to establish Zeiss Microscopy
Center in Calit2 building
• Focused Ion Beam, FEG-SEM and Environmental SEM totaling
$2.5M in value provided at no cost by Zeiss
 Thermal analysis lab and scanning microprobe lab
established with contributions from HSSoE, Calit2 and
faculty members
 BioMEMS lab to be established in new cleanroom
 NSF provided $380k for nanoimprinting facility in
cleanroom
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Calit2 UCI/UCSD Team Studying
Collaborative Practice
 Biomedical Informatics Research Network
• Integration of collaboration technologies into medical practice &
research
• Integration of collaboration & distributed visualization
 Supporting Communities of Practice
• Collaboration is not just “multiple users”
• Understand collective action & collective practice
• How communities shape individual actions
 Organic Growth Is Key
• “Technology First” Solutions Fail
• Let Technology & Practice Develop Together
• Design for Evolution & Adaptation
Source: Paul Dourish, UCI
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Calit2@UCI Seed Funded Projects
 Eco-Raft: Tomlinson and Carpenter
 Synthesizing nano-monoclonal plastic antibodies: Lee
and Shea
 Remote monitoring of spinal cord injury recovery: Cramer
& Lopes
 Silicon-based lasers: Tsai et al.
 BIRN visualization: Kuester and Potkin
 BIRN collaboration: Dourish, Mark and Potkin
 Impact of Telecommunication and IT development in
China: Zhu
 Single molecule spectroscopy: Apkarian & Ho
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Emerging Projects
• Medical data fusion: Linskey, Li, Lopes (UCI) and
Martin (UCLA)
– Integrate spinal cord injury data from depts of neurosurgery
at UCI, UCLA, and eventually UCSD, UCSF, and UCD
• Telemedicine: Lott and Jain
– Remote immersive tele-clinic for psychiatric evaluation
• House Calls by Telerobotdoc: Clayman, InTouch
Health and Calit2@UCI
• Cyberinfrastructure TEAM project (NSF)
• Clinical Translational Science Center (NIH)
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Highlights of Outreach Activities
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Campus Outreach
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Student Engagement and Education Outreach
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Housewarming BBQ
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HIPerWall and Nanoimprinter funded by NSF
Hydrology and Homeland Security Center Proposal Site Visits
ResCUE NSF Site Visit
Intelligent Transportation Workshop
Research that Educates in a Public Setting
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Octane@UCI collaborative research presentations
Igniting Technology seminar series
Blue Sky Days
Grant–Research Development
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So Cal Chambers of Commerce Presentation
Industry Outreach
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Girls Inc. Tour and Demos
Grad Student Forum (April '05)
SURF-IT (Undergrad Summer Research Program)
Girls Inc. (middle school students) Tours and Demos
Carbon MEMS Group Visits Preschool
Community Outreach
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Focus Groups
Schools of Medicine, Social Science, & Social Ecology
Housewarming BBQ
Discovery Science Center–Calit2 Research Affiliate Demos
Host Prominent Conferences
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BFI (May '05)
Cybertrust (Sept '05)
Discovery Science Center
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Issues and Challenges at Calit2@UCI
 No funding for equipment
 Current budget does not provide for technical
professionals
 Insufficient space to meet demand for collaborative
projects
 Nurture innovative research and provide seed funding
 Develop a sense of ownership and culture of collaboration
 Generate additional support
 Initiate projects on education
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