S. Shankar Sastry
| S. Shankar Sastry | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Fields |
Robotics Control theory |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley, MIT, Harvard University |
| Alma mater | IIT Bombay, University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Stephen P. Boyd, Claire J. Tomlin |
| Notable awards | Donald P. Eckman Award |
S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley and the faculty director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. From 2004 to 2007 he was the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interests of Society) an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. He has served as Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004. From 1999-early 2001, he was on leave from Berkeley as Director of the Information Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley.
Sastry obtained bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1977) and Master's and PhD degrees from University of California, Berkeley (1979, 1980, 1981). His PhD advisor was Professor Charles Desoer. He was on the faculty of MIT as Asst. Professor from 1980–82 and Harvard University as a chaired Gordon Mc Kay professor in 1994. He is married to his former PhD student Claire J. Tomlin, who currently holds a joint appointment as an associate professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Department of Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University, where she is director of the Hybrid Systems Laboratory and as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley.
His areas of personal research are resilient network control systems, cybersecurity, autonomous and unmanned systems (especially aerial vehicles), computer vision, nonlinear and adaptive control, control of hybrid and embedded systems, and software. Most recently he has been concerned with critical infrastructure protection, in the context of establishing a ten-year NSF Science and Technology Center, TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies)
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