Calit2 is a research institute comprised of over 350 faculty across 24 departments at UC San Diego and UC Irvine working collaboratively on multidisciplinary projects. Calit2 has two new buildings providing state-of-the-art laboratory facilities for over 1000 researchers. Calit2 seeks to increase entrepreneurship and has over $93 million in funding from industrial partners. Key areas of research include machine learning, robotics, wireless technologies, photonics, and bioinformatics.