Shankar Sastry is the Dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. He was formerly the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute @ CITRIS Berkeley. He served as chair of the EECS department from January 2001 through June 2004. In 2000, he served as Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA. From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley, an organized research unit on the Berkeley campus conducting research in computer sciences and all aspects of electrical engineering. He is the NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, EECS and Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the EECS faculty in 1983 he was a professor at MIT.

Sastry has garnered a number of honors, including a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, a distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, and the President of India Gold Medal. In 2001, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and in 2004, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.He was appointed to serve on the CCST council in 2010.

Sastry received his Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India, a M.S. in EECS, M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley, 1979, 1980, and 1981 respectively.