National Security

Shankar Sastry
Dean of the College of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences

Expertise:
Cybersecurity and other technology research relevant to homeland security; embedded and autonomous systems and software, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), complex infrastructure systems, secure networked embedded systems, high confidence systems and software, aerospace control systems, computer vision and robotic surgery.

Contact:
(510) 642-0253
E-mail: sastry@eecs.berkeley.edu

Additional contacts:
Sarah Yang, Media Relations: (510) 643-7741
scyang@berkeley.edu
Roxanne Makasdjian, broadcast: (510) 642-6051, roxannem@berkeley.edu

Background:
Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1983, Sastry served on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard University. He has also served as director of the Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the U.S. Department of Defense. The responsibilities of this office included planning and managing the investment in all areas of information technology.

He recently led the organization of a collaborative multi-university cybersecurity research consortium as well as a testbed for network defense. Both are called the national cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research network. In 2003, the National Science Foundation awarded $5.46 million to fund the project.

Sastry is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1994, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. He is author and co-author of numerous books, including, "A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation," published by CRC Press in 1994.