Shankar Sastry

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S. Shankar Sastry
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	IIT Bombay University of California, Berkeley
Spouse	Claire J. Tomlin
Awards	Donald P. Eckman Award
Scientific career
Fields	Robotics Control theory
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley, Plaksha University, MIT, Harvard University
Thesis	Jump Behavior of Circuits and Systems[1]
Doctoral advisor	Charles Auguste Desoer[1]
Doctoral students	Stephen P. Boyd Linda Bushnell Yi Ma Dawn Tilbury Claire J. Tomlin René Vidal

S. Shankar Sastry is the founding chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali^[2] and a former Dean of Engineering^[3] at University of California, Berkeley.

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). He has served as chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 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.