11 Facts About Calit2

Calit2 was established in 2000 as one of the four UC Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation.

Calit2 provides an academic research environment in which students can work alongside industry professionals to take part in conducting research and prototyping and testing new technologies.

Partnering with companies such as Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Hitachi, and Google Earth, Calit2 has collaborated with more than 250 industry names on sponsored research, technology licensing, and spinoffs based on Calit2 inventions.

Calit2 receives support from other funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, CalTrans, and the UC Discovery Program.

Calit2 is known for its project, Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, which was created to address the challenges the microbial ecology research community faced in metagenomic analysis.

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Calit2 is home to scientific, artistic, and technological innovators, with faculty members often sharing affiliations with other academic departments, including Engineering, Music and Medicine.

Calit2 currently has two buildings, one located at UC San Diego, and another at UC Irvine.

Full name of the UCSD division of Calit2 is the "Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the UC San Diego Division of Calit2".

The Calit2 building features a spacious and state-of-the-art auditorium that can seat an audience of around 145 people.

The UCI Calit2 building is the home of TechPortal, a business technology incubator offering 1460 square feet of space for up to eight companies.

Since 2009, Calit2 has been awarded several funded research grants by National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation.