Professor S. Shankar Sastry's Biography

Education

  • B.Tech (1977), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
  • M.S. EECS (1979), University of California, Berkeley.
  • M.A. Mathematics (1980), University of California, Berkeley.
  • Ph.D. EECS (1981), University of California, Berkeley.

Experience in Higher Education

  • Director (CITRIS), Feb 2005-Present
  • Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, U. C. Berkeley, 2001-2004
  • Director, Electronics Research Laboratory, U. C. Berkeley, 1996-1999.
  • Professore A Contratto, Universita di Pisa, Summer 1995, Summer 1998.
  • Gordon McKay Professor of EECS (tenured appointment), Harvard University, 1994.
  • Visiting Vinton Hayes Professor of EECS, MIT, Fall 1992.
  • Professore A Contratto, Universita di Roma. "La Sapienza", Summer 1990, Summer 1991.
  • Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1988 - present
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 -1988.
  • Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 -1988.
  • Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Summer 1985.
  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1983 - 1984.
  • Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1980 - 1982.

Experience in Government

  • Director, Information Technology Office, DARPA, Nov. 1999-Feb 2001.
  • Member, Air Force Science Advisory Board (Presidential Appointment), October 2002-present
  • Member, DoD TARA Review Board for Information Technology, from April 2004
  • Member, DIA-NRC Panel on Emerging Threats and Technologies, from September 2004

Professional Experience

  • Research Engineer, Indian Telephone Industries, Bangalore, India, Summer 1975.
  • Research Engineer, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, India, Summer 1976.
  • Graduate Student Aide, Honeywell Systems and Control Inc., Minneapolis, 1978.
  • Directeur Recherche, Poste Rouge, Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France, Summer 1991.

Board Membership

  • Board Member, Federation of American Scientists, July 2002-present
  • Board of Trustees, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, October 2003-present, Chairman of the Board, 2004-
  • Member, Army Research Laboratories and Army Research Office Review Board, 2002, 2005
  • Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, ECS Division, September 2002.
  • Board of Reviewers, Swedish Ministry of Defense, 2002-2003
  • Board of Directors, Berkeley Intel Lablet, July 2002-July 2003.

Professional Activities

  • Associate Editor of: Proceedings of the IEEE
  • IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
  • International Journal of Adaptive and Optimal Control Past Associate Editor Systems and Control Letters
  • Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 1983-85
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1986-87
  • IEEE Control Magazine, 1988
  • Large Scale Systems

Honors and Awards

  • President of India Gold Medal, 1977.
  • IBM Faculty Development Grant, 1983.
  • NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985.
  • IEEE Student Best Paper Award, 1977.
  • Eckman Award of the American Control Council, 1990 for the best control theorist under the age of 35 awarded by IEEE, ASME, AIAA, AIChE, SPIE, Opt. Soc. Of America.
  • M.A. (Letters), honoris causa, Harvard University, 1994.
  • Fellow, IEEE, 1994.
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Bombay, 1999.
  • David Marr Best Paper Prize, International Conference in Computer Vision, 1999.
  • National Academy of Engineering, 2001.
  • Nippon Electronics Corporation (NEC) Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business, 2002.
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004.
  • Ragazzini Award for distinguished career in Control education, American Control Council, 2005

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