About Encitra

Encitra was founded in 2008, with headquarters in Santa Cruz, California. The Company's core competency is a comprehensive, open source urban planning and real estate development modeling process/service that creates interactivity visualization environments from 2D data, thus allowing all stakeholders the ability to experience, modify, respond to, and collaborate on proposed sustainable urban and real estate development solutions and understand their long-term consequences quickly, clearly and cost effectively. 

Management

Christer Lindstrom - Co-founder is the founder and board member of the Institute for Sustainable Transportation (IST), and is leading a global effort to research and develop a podcar urban transportation system. With the support of agencies and government organizations in Sweden, he is currently working on the creation of the Swedish-U.S. General Transportation Fund, and establishment of an International industrial consortium for sustainable transportation.

Dr. Crista Lopes - Co-founder & Chief Computer Scientist is an Associate Professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC, Irvine. Prior to being in Academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001) and is most known as co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming). She also made contributions to Ubiquitous Computing research with her work on lightweight software acoustic modems that encode small amounts of data in socially-acceptable sounds. Recently she has been working on infrastructures for Virtual Worlds. She is the recipient of several NSF grants, including a prestigious CAREER Award. Dr. Lopes has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal.