Biography for Dr. Shankar Sastry

NEC Distinguished Professor,

Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and Bioengineering

University of California, Berkeley

S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Director of CITRIS (Center for

Information Technology in the Interests of Society) an interdisciplinary

center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. He served as

Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,

University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004.

In 2000, he served as Director of the Information Technology Office at

DARPA. From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research

Laboratory at Berkeley, an organized research unit on the Berkeley

campus conducting research in computer sciences and all aspects of

electrical engineering. He is the NEC Distinguished Professor of

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and a Professor of

Bioengineering.