Sosale Shankara Sastry

Sosale Shankara Sastry is currently the Director at the Blum Center For Developing Economies since 2007 and the Director at the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute since 2020.
He is also an Independent Director at HCL Technologies Ltd, Helsingin sivuliike.
Previously, he held positions such as Professor at the University of California, Berkeley starting in 2001 and became a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
His former jobs include being a Director at Crossbow Technology, Inc., Director-Information Technology at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1999 to 2001, and an Independent Director at C3.ai, Inc. from 2009 to 2023.
He has also served as a Director at Citris, Inc., Atheer, Inc., and The Center for Information Technology Research.
Additionally, he was an Independent Non-Executive Director at HCL Technologies Ltd. from 2012 to 2024 and a Higher Education Advisor at Diamondhead Ventures from 2000 to 2012.
He was an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1982 and is a Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
He also served as a Principal at the College of Engineering, Pune and is a Member of the National Research Foundation.
Dr. Sastry obtained his graduate and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979 and 1981 respectively.
He also holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, which he received in 1979.