Leadership

CITRIS research requires tight collaboration among the four University of California campuses that comprise the Center. That complex effort is coordinated by a seasoned group of leaders who understand the many demands of investigative research.

CITRIS Director S. Shankar Sastry first came to UC Berkeley as a graduate student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in the late 1970s. Since then he's become one of the College of Engineering's most distinguished professors and researchers. Awarded the Nippon Electronics Corporation Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 "for pioneering contributions to the design of hybrid and embedded systems" and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. In addition, he's served as director of the Information Technology Office of DARPA, director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, and most recently chair of the very department where he earned his Ph.D.

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