invited speakers

S. Shankar Sastry

S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Dean of Enginnering at University of California, Berkeley. From 2004 to 2007 he ws the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interests of Society) an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz. In Februrary 2007, he was appointed the faculty co-director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Since January 2010 he has also been faculty co-director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership. He has served as Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004. From 1999-early 2001, he was on leave from Berkeley as Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA. From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley.

Dr. Sastry received his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was on the faculty of MIT as Asst. Professor from 1980-82 and Harvard University as a chaired Gordon Mc Kay professor in 1994. His areas of personal research are embedded and autonomous software for unmanned systems (especially aerial vehicles), computer vision, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid and embedded systems, and network embedded systems and software. Most recently he has been concerned with cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protecton, and has helped establish an NSF Science and Technology Center, TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies)

He has coauthored over 450 technical papers and 9 books, including Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness (with M. Bodson, Prentice Hall, 1989) and A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation (with R. Murray and Z. Li, CRC Press, 1994), Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control (Springer-Verlag, 1999), and An Invitation to 3D Vision: From Images to Models (Springer Verlag, 2003) (with Y. Ma. S. Soatto, and J. Kosecka). Dr. Sastry served as Associate Editor for numerous publications, including: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Control Magazine; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; the Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control; IMA Journal of Control and Information; the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing; Journal of Biomimetic Systems and Materials. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Proceedings.

Dr. Sastry was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2004. He also received the President of India Gold Medal in 1977, the IBM Faculty Development award for 1983-1985, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the Eckman Award of the of the American Automatic Control Council in 1990, the Ragazzini Award for Distinguished Accomplishments in teaching in 2005, an M. A. (honoris causa) from Harvard in 1994, Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, the distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999, and the David Marr prize for the best paper at the International Conference in Computer Vision in 1999, an honorary doctorate from the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology in 2007 and the Chang-Lin Tien Award for Academic Leadership in 2010. He has been a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2002-5 and the Defense Science Board in 2008.

He has supervised over 60 doctoral students and over 50 MS students to completion. His students now occupy leadership roles in several locations and on the faculties of many major universities in the United States and abroad.

Societal Scale Cyber Physical Systems: Action Webs and Beyond

There has been a great deal of excitement in recent years concerning the evolution of sensor webs. There has been a very substantive active world wide in this area and in particular at Berkeley there have now been over six generation of "motes" for these sensor webs, and several new start ups have arisen to commercialize these developments.

The primary use of sensor networks to date has been on information gathering and threshold detection. However, it is fair to say that the greatest impact of sensor webs will be from what we call Action Webs, involving "closing the loop" around these networked embedded systems. We believe that this closing the loop brings into sharp focus the real time constraints issues inherent in the use of networked embedded systems. A very large number of societal scale systems such as physical infrastructures, energy and building infrastructures are now being instrumented by these Action Webs. Consequently the use of Action Webs in these Cyber Physical Systems will need the high confidence attributes of robustness, fault tolerance and resistance to cyber attacks. These research directions are, we believe, the intellectual core of the new directions of investigation of Cyber-Physical Systems.

To address the grand challenge societal problems inherent in bringing high confidence to Action Webs, the National Science Foundation and other agencies in the US have supported us through funding the ITR Center CHESS "Center for Hybrid and Embedded Systems and Software", between Berkeley and Vanderbilt, a Science and Technology Center entitled "TRUST: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies" between Berkeley (lead), CMU, Cornell, San Jose State, Stanford and Vanderbilt, and a new CPS Center entitled "Action Webs" between Berkeley, MIT and San Jose State. This talk will include the research agendas of these "centers".