Biography

Current Positions

• Professor Emeritus,
  Professor in the Graduate School
  UC Berkeley

Earlier Positions

• Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, June 1962-June 1963

• Assistant-Associate Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley, 1966-1971

• Professor of EECS, UC Berkeley, July 1971-present

• Professor of Economics, July 1975-1992

• Visiting Professor, MIT, January 1974-January 1975

• Director, California PATH Program, July 1994-September 1997

• Visiting Professor, Inst. Adv. Studies, HKUST, September 2010-present

• Co-founder and Member of Board of Directors, Sensys Networks, Inc., 2004-present

• Member, Board of Directors, Cambridge Systematics, Inc., 2011-2013

• Member, US DoT Secretary ITS Advisory Board, 2010-2011

Honors and awards

• Guggenheim Fellow, 1972

• Miller Research Professor, July 1978-June 1979

• Fellow, IEEE

• Member, National Academy of Engineers

• Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• EEE Control Systems Society Field Award, 2002

• Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize, 2005

• Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, 2008

• IEEE ITS Society Outstanding Research Award, 2009

• Honorary doctorate: L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, 1999

• Honorary doctorate: L’Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 2006

• Honorary doctorate: Technical University of Crete, 2008

• Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, December 2006-February 2009

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
  Thesis: Nonlinear Programming and Optimal Control
  Advisor: Prof. Lotfi Zadeh

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Bombay, 1960