UCSB Chem Engineering

Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies

Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program (BMSE)

Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, & Computation

Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science (IGPM)

Computational Science and Engineering, IGERT program

Professor Francis J. Doyle III

Mellichamp Chair in Process Control
Director, Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
Associate Dean of Research, College of Engineering

Education

• BS: 1985, ChE, Princeton University
  
• MS: C.P.G.S., 1986, Cambridge University
• PhD: 1991, California Institute of Technology
  

Honors

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2011.
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 2008.
• Computing in Chemical Engineering Award (AIChE CAST Division), 2005.
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, 2001-2002.
• ASEE Ray Fahien Award, 2000.
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1996-1999.
• ASEE Section Outstanding Teacher Award (Illinois/Indiana), 1996.
• National Science Foundation National Young Investigator Award, 1992-1997.

Research

• Biosystems analysis and control: the application of systems engineering principles to the analysis of regulatory mechanisms in biological systems
• Biomedical control systems synthesis: control-relevant design of drug delivery devices
• Application of advanced control schemes to nonlinear, multivariable, constrained industrial processes with emphasis on: particulate systems and pulp & paper operations
• Characterization of process nonlinearity for control-relevant design
• Large scale applications of MPC including plant-wide control and cross direction control of sheet/film processes
• Experimental studies of nonlinear model-based control of particle size distribution in a semi-batch emulsion polymerization reactor

Publications

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