S. Shankar Sastry is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the departments of electrical engineering and computer sciences, bioengineering, and mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2008–18 he was the Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at Berkeley and from 2004–07 he was the director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), an interdisciplinary center spanning UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. He has served as chairman of the UC Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA, and director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining the EECS faculty in 1983, he was a professor at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley.
His areas of research are embedded and autonomous software, computer vision, computaIon in novel substrates such as quantum computng, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid and embedded systems, network embedded systems, and software. He has been concerned with cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection, and helped establish the NSF Science and Technology Center Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST). He has coauthored over 650 technical papers and 10 books and supervised over 65 doctoral students and over 50 M.S. students to completion.
Relevant expertise:
- Autonomous and unmanned systems: Leading research in autonomous aerial vehicles, robotics, and embedded autonomous software with applications in air, ground, and underwater vehicles
- Hybrid systems control for autonomy: Developing control of hybrid systems and adaptive control for autonomous robotic vehicles, including biomimetic robotic insects and autonomous navigation