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Shankar Sastry received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1977, followed by an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. in EECS in 1981. Sastry has held various faculty appointments within the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Bioengineering, and Mechanical Engineering. He served as the dean of the College of Engineering from 2007 to 2018 and was previously the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) at the Banatao Institute at Berkeley. He has a strong background in electrical engineering and computer science, having led research units and served various leadership roles in significant research initiatives and labs throughout his career. Notably, he was the director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA and has been recognized as a NEC Distinguished Professor. His research contributions span numerous topics within control systems, robotics, networked systems, and applied mathematics, with many publications addressing the complexities of computation and robust control.
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