drponnapulaprasad's Biography
Education
B.Tech , Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
M.S. EECS , University of California, Berkeley.
M.A. Mathematics , University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. EECS , University of California, Berkeley.
Experience in Higher Education
Director (CITRIS), Feb 2005-Present
Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, U. C. Berkeley, 2001-2004
Director, Electronics Research Laboratory, U. C. Berkeley, 1996-1999.
Professore A Contratto, Universita di Pisa, Summer 1995, Summer 1998.
Gordon McKay Professor of EECS (tenured appointment), Harvard University, 1994.
Visiting Vinton Hayes Professor of EECS, MIT, Fall 1992.
Professore A Contratto, Universita di Roma. "La Sapienza", Summer 1990, Summer 1991.
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1988 - present
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 -1988.
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1984 -1988.
Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Summer 1985.
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1983 - 1984.
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1980 - 1982.
Experience in Government
Director, Information Technology Office, DARPA, Nov. 1999-Feb 2001.
Member, Air Force Science Advisory Board (Presidential Appointment), October 2002-present
Member, DoD TARA Review Board for Information Technology, from April 2004
Member, DIA-NRC Panel on Emerging Threats and Technologies, from September 2004
Professional Experience
Research Engineer, Indian Telephone Industries, Bangalore, India, Summer 1975.
Research Engineer, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore, India, Summer 1976.
Graduate Student Aide, Honeywell Systems and Control Inc., Minneapolis, 1978.
Directeur Recherche, Poste Rouge, Centre Nationale Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France, Summer 1991.
Board Membership
Board Member, Federation of American Scientists, July 2002-present
Board of Trustees, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, October 2003-present, Chairman of the Board, 2004-
Member, Army Research Laboratories and Army Research Office Review Board, 2002, 2005
Member, Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation, Engineering Directorate, ECS Division, September 2002.
Board of Reviewers, Swedish Ministry of Defense, 2002-2003
Board of Directors, Berkeley Intel Lablet, July 2002-July 2003.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor of: Proceedings of the IEEE
IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information
International Journal of Adaptive and Optimal Control Past Associate Editor Systems and Control Letters
Journal of Mathematical Systems, Estimation and Control
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 1983-85
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1986-87
IEEE Control Magazine, 1988
Large Scale Systems
Honors and Awards
President of India Gold Medal, 1977.
IBM Faculty Development Grant, 1983.
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1985.
IEEE Student Best Paper Award, 1977.
Eckman Award of the American Control Council, 1990 for the best control theorist under the age of 35 awarded by IEEE, ASME, AIAA, AIChE, SPIE, Opt. Soc. Of America.
M.A. (Letters), honoris causa, Harvard University, 1994.
Fellow, IEEE, 1994.
Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Bombay, 1999.
David Marr Best Paper Prize, International Conference in Computer Vision, 1999.
National Academy of Engineering, 2001.
Nippon Electronics Corporation (NEC) Distinguished Professorship in the College of Engineering and the Walter A. Haas School of Business, 2002.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2004.
Ragazzini Award for distinguished career in Control education, American Control Council, 2005
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