The Center for Information Technology and Infrastructure (CITI) was established to promote the vision of transforming and empowering SDSU to take advantage of emerging tools in optical networking, Cloud computing, wireless communication, and human-computer interactions through visualization. Working across the spectrum of the entire university, CITI nurtures new technologies and builds on existing efforts in environmental monitoring, student safety, transportation studies, law enforcement and first responder interaction, homeland security, collaborative education, Internet technologies, GIS systems, and other high-interest areas. Activities extend to many sectors of the community (government, business, academia, non-profit organizations, and private citizens) and among different jurisdictions within the region and world. Much of the focus is also on international collaboration related to innovation during development for revenue generation and also disaster response using these same technologies and tools.

    CITI is a product of the efforts of the SDSU Visualization Center resulting from community participation (“engaged university”) and exercise development to nurture these goals. Its infrastructure exists in the form of hardware, software, facilities, people, and relationships. Many of these resources were informally gathered through the efforts of the SDSU Viz Center, the SDSU Research Foundation, and relationships with corporations and organizations globally. Over the past few years SDSU has actively collaborated and established partnerships with many academic and medical institutions, law enforcement and military agencies, local, state and federal governmental agencies, high-technology corporations, and global Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Our efforts are fueled by interaction with the Visualization Center and the Graduate Program in Homeland Security, as well as linkages to other universities and research centers and government agencies. We are very interested in joint collaborative projects with national and international partners, especially as a means to innovatively solve difficult problems with cleverness and insight within an academic neutral space to help invent and demonstrate the future.

Comments may be sent to:

Akshay Pottathil (fusionarchitect@gmail.com)

Co-Director, Center for Information Technology & Infrastructure

San Diego State University

5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-1012
Phone: 619-594-4070