S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the
Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at
University of California, Berkeley
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.
From 1996-1999, he was the director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. 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)
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Originally known as the Adv ...
. He has served as chairman, Department of
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
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s, University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004. From 2004 to 2007 he was the director of
CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society) an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz.
He is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a professor of Bioengineering, and faculty director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley.
Biography
Sastry obtained bachelor's degree from
Indian Institute of Technology
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, Bombay (1977) and Master's and PhD degrees from
University of California, Berkeley
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(1979, 1980, 1981). His PhD advisor was Professor Charles Desoer. He was on the faculty of
MIT
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as Asst. Professor from 1980–82 and
Harvard University
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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
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.
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
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, in the context of establishing a ten-year NSF Science and Technology Center, TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies).
He has coauthored over 600 technical papers and 10 books, including Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness (with M. Bodson, Prentice Hall, 1989), A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation (with R. Murray and Z. Li, CRC Press, 1994), Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control (Springer-Verlag, 1999), An Invitation to 3D Vision: From Images to Models (Springer Verlag, 2003) (with
Yi Ma
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,
Stefano Soatto
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Academic biography
Soatto ...
, and
Jana Košecká
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), and Generalized Principal Component Analysis (Springer, 2016) (with
René Vidal
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and
Yi Ma
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). 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.
Sastry was elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering
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in 2001 and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(AAAS) in 2004. He also 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 and the
Eckman Award of the
American Automatic Control Council
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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
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in 1994, the distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999, the
David Marr prize for the best paper at the
International Conference in Computer Vision
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in 1999, an honorary doctorate from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2007, and the C.L. Tien Award for Academic Leadership in 2010. He has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2002-5 and the Defense Science Board in 2008 among other national boards. He is currently on the corporate board of
HCL Technologies
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(India) and co-directs the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute. Currently, He is serving as the Chancellor of the
Plaksha University, Mohali. He is on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Interwest LLC, GE Software, and Eriksholm. He is ranked top 30 among electrical-engineering researchers worldwide.
References
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Control theorists
Indian roboticists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Living people
IIT Bombay alumni
Indian emigrants to the United States
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
American people of Indian descent