|
S. Shankar Sastry Dean,
College of Engineering and Director,
Blum Center for Developing Economies Roy W.
Carlson Professor of Engineering Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, Bioengineering
and Mechanical Engineering University
of California, Berkeley |
S.
Shankar Sastry is dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. Prior to
serving as dean he was director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in
the Interests of Society) an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis,
Merced and Santa Cruz. In Februrary 2007, he was appointed the Faculty director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
He chaired the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC
Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004, he was director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA from
1999 to early 2001 and director of
the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, conducting research in
electrical, computer sciences and engineering from 1996-1999.
Dr. Sastry received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the UC Berkeley.
He was on the faculty of MIT as assistant professor from 1980-82 and at Harvard
University as a chaired Gordon Mc Kay professor in 1994. He has held visiting
appointments at the Australian National University, Canberra the University of
Rome, Scuola Normale and University of Pisa, the CNRS laboratory LAAS in
Toulouse (poste rouge), Professor Invite at Institut National Polytechnique de
Grenoble (CNRS laboratory VERIMAG), and as a Vinton Hayes visiting fellow at the
Center for Intelligent Control Systems at MIT. His areas of personal research
are embedded and autonomous software for unmanned systems (especially aerial
vehicles), computer vision, computation in novel substrates such as quantum
computing, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of
hybrid and embedded systems, network embedded systems and software. Most
recently he has been concerned with cybersecurity and critical infrastructure
protecton, and has helped establish an NSF Science and Technology Center, TRUST
(Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies)
He has coauthored over
350 technical papers and nine books, including Adaptive Control: Stability,
Convergence and Robustness (with M. Bodson, Prentice Hall, 1989) and A
Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation (with R. Murray and Z.
Li, CRC Press, 1994), Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and
Control (Springer-Verlag, 1999), and An
Invitation to 3D Vision: From Images to
Models (Springer Verlag, 2003) (with Y. Ma. S. Soatto, and J. Kosecka). Dr. Sastry served as Associate Editor for
numerous publications, including: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control;
IEEE Control Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; the Journal
of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control; IMA Journal of Control and
Information; the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal
Processing; Journal of Biomimetic Systems and Materials. He is currently an
Associate Editor of the IEEE Proceedings.
Dr. Sastry was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2004. He is on the Technical Advisory Group of the
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He was on the US Air
Force Science Board from 2003-2006, and is chairman of the board of the
International Computer Science Institute. He is also a member of the boards of
the Federation of American Scientists and ESCHER (Embedded Systems Consortium
for Hybrid and Embedded Research). Among his many honors, he received the President of India Gold Medal in
1977, the IBM Faculty Development award for 1983-1985, the NSF Presidential
Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Eckman Award of the of the American
Automatic Control Council in 1990, the Ragazzini Award for Distinguished
Accomplishments in teaching in 2005, an M. A. (honoris causa) from Harvard in
1994, Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, the distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian
Institute of Technology in 1999, and the David Marr prize for the best paper at
the International Conference in Computer Vision in 1999.
He
has supervised more than 50 doctoral students to completion and over 50 MS
students. His students now occupy leadership roles in several locations and on
the faculties of many major universities in the United States and abroad.
Phone: (510) 642-5771 http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sastry 320 McLaughlin Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-1774