The CRIS Center comprises approximately 30 affiliated faculty from various Departments across the UC Riverside campus. The affiliated members work on foundational aspects of control, robotics, machine intelligence, embedded systems, and communications, while others focus on application areas including hydrologic modeling, agriculture automation, environmental monitoring, transportation, manufacturing, and advanced materials. The Center also takes advantage of an advisory board to steer the Center's research and teaching activities.

Faculty affiliated with the Center include: