Biography of PIs

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
and Director, Electronics Research Laboratory
269 M Cory Hall
University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
Tel: (510)642-1857. Fax: (510) 642-1341.
E-mail: sastry@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu
Field of Specialization
Robotics, Complex systems and hybrid control, Simulation and Visualization
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
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1988 - present, Gordon Mc Kay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Harvard University, 1994, Visiting Vinton Hayes Professor of Electrical Engineering, MIT, Fall 1992, Directeur Recherche, Center Nationale Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France, Summer 1991, Professore A Contratto, Universita di Roma. Summer 1990, 1991, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 - 1988, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Summer 1985, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1983 - 1984, Assistant Professor, MIT, Cambridge, 1980 - 1982.

Associate Editor of: IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control, International Journal of Adaptive and Optimal Control.
Past Associate Editor of: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Magazine, Large Scale Systems.

Awards
President of India Medal, 1977, IBM Faculty Development Grant, 1983, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985, IEEE Student Best Paper Award, 1977, Eckmann Award of the American Control Council, 1990. M. A. Arts and Sciences, (honorary, 1994), Harvard University, Cambridge, Fellow IEEE (1995).

Books Published
S.S. Sastry and M. Bodson, Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness, Prentice Hall, 1989.
R. Murray, Z. Li and S. Sastry A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation, CRC Press, 1994.
P. Antsaklis, W. Kohn, A. Nerode and S. Sastry (editors), Hybrid Systems II, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 999, 1995.
P. Antsaklis, W. Kohn, A. Nerode and S. Sastry (editors), Hybrid Systems IV, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to appear, 1997.

Publications
Here are a selection from over 125 papers:

1. Z. Li, P. Hsu and S. Sastry, ``Grasping and Coordinated Manipulation using Multifingered Hands'', International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 8, 1989, pp. 33-50.
2. D. C. Deno, R. Murray, K. Pister and S. Sastry, "Control Primitives for Robot Systems," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 22, (1992), pp. 183-193.
3. M. B. Cohn, L. S. Crawford, J. M. Wendlandt and S. S. Sastry, ``Surgical Application of Milli-robots'', Journal of Robotic Systems, Vol. 12, No. 6, June 1995, pg. 401-416.
4. S. S. Sastry, M. B. Cohn and F. Tendick, ``Millirobotics for Remote, Minimally Invasive Surgery'', Proceedings of the International Symposium on Intelligent Robotics (ISIR), Singapore, October 1995, also to appear in Journal of Robotic Systems, 1997.
5. J. Hauser, S. Sastry and G. Meyer, "Nonlinear Control Design for Slightly Non-minimum Phase Systems: Application to V/STOL aircraft'', Automatica, Vol. 28 (1992), pp. 665-679.
6. R. M. Murray and S. S. Sastry, ``Nonholonomic Motion Planning - Steering using sinusoids'', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 38 (1993), pp. 700-716.
7. D. Tilbury, R. Murray and S. Sastry, ``Trajectory Generation for the N trailer system using the Goursat Normal Form'', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 40, (1995), pp. 802-819.
8. G. Walsh and S. Sastry, ``On Reorienting linked rigid bodies using internal motions'', IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 11 (1995), pp. 139-146.
9. D. Godbole and S. Sastry, ``Approximate Decoupling and asymptotic tracking for MIMO systems'', IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 40 (1995), pp. 441-450.

Professor
Computer Science Division, Department of EECS
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720

Field of Specialization
Computer Vision, Computational Modeling of Human Vision

Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Stanford University, December 1985.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1980. Experience
Vice-Chair for Graduate Matters, EECS, UC Berkeley, 1995-continuing. Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley, Jan 1986-continuing.
Member, Groups on Cognitive science and Vision Science, UC Berkeley

Selected Honors and Awards
Rosenbaum Fellow, Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge, 1993.
Presidential Young Investigator Award 1989.
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1986.
Keynote or invited speaker at various meetings including NAS/NRC workshop (Irvine, 1990), ESPRIT Insight (Nice, France,1991), NATO workshop (York, Canada, 1992), CIBA foundation (London, 1993), British Machine Vision Conf (1995)
Best Graduating Student in Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur 1980.
One of the top ten students in the Indian School Certificate Examination 1974.

Ten Selected publications (from more than 75):

1. J. Malik and P.Perona, ``Preattentive texture discrimination with early vision mechanisms,'' Journal of Optical Society of America A, 7 (2), May 1990, pp. 923-932.
2. P. Perona and J. Malik, ``Scale space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion,'' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 12 (7), July 1990, pp. 629-639.
3. D. Jones and J. Malik, `` Computational framework for determining stereo correspondence from a set of linear spatial filters,'' Image and Vision Computing 10(10), December 1992, pp. 699-708.
4. J. Weber and J. Malik, ``Robust computation of optical flow in a multi-scale differential framework,'' International Journal of Computer Vision, 14(1), Jan 1995, pp. 67-81.
5. J. Malik, J. Weber, Q.T. Luong and D. Koller, ``Smart Cars and Smart Roads,'' Proc. of British Machine Vision Conference, September 1995, pp.367-382.(Keynote lecture).
6. J. Weber and J. Malik, ``Rigid Body Segmentation and Shape Description from dense optical flow under weak perspective,'' IEEE PAMI, February 1997,pp. 139-143.
7. J. Malik and R. Rosenholtz, ``Computing local surface orientation and shape from texture for curved surfaces,'' International Journal of Computer Vision, 23(2), June 1997.
8. D. Forsyth, J. Malik and R. Wilensky, ``Searching for Digital Pictures,'' Scientific American, 276(6), June 1997, pp. 88-93.
9. J. Shi and J. Malik, ``Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation,'' Proc. of IEEE CVPR, Puerto Rico, June 1997.
10. D. Beymer, P. McLauchlan, B. Coiffman and J. Malik, ``A Real-time Computer Vision System for Measuring Traffic Parameters,'' Proc. of IEEE CVPR, Puerto Rico, June 1997.

Raja Sengupta

Advanced Vehicle Safety Systems, Discrete Event Systems, Fault Diagnosis and Handling, Combinatorial and Stochastic Optimization.

Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering: Systems) - University of Michigan, February 1995.
M.S. (Electrical Engineering: Systems) - University of Michigan, May 1991.
B.E.E. (Electrical Engineering) - Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, May 1988.

04/95 -
 present

Asst. Research Engineer, PATH, University of California, Berkeley

09/89 -
 02/95

Research Assistant, University of Michigan

08/88 -
 12/88

Trainee Engineer, Calcutta Electric Supply Company, India

   Merit Advance in California PATH, UC Berkeley, 1996

   Awarded First class with Honors for the bachelor's degree.

   Awarded National Talent Search scholarship for undergraduate studies
by the Government of India in May 1984.

 
  

   Reviewer for IEEE transactions on Automatic Control, Journal of Transportation Research.

   Invited talks to ITS Safety and Human Factors Committee, Office of Naval Research,   National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.