April 5, 2005 –
S. Shankar Sastry, Professor of Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences has been named the new director of the UC Berkeley-based Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS).
CITRIS is one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation established in 2001 to develop the next generation of technologies that will be critical to sustaining California’s economic growth and global competitiveness. The institute combines the skills and talents of more than 200 researchers from four UC campuses – Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz – with those from private industry to develop innovative technology that tackles some of society’s most pressing problems.