Prof. Francis J. Doyle III UCSB, USA

Frank Doyle holds the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Control in the Department of Chemical Engineering, as well as appointments in the Electrical Engineering Department, and the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program at UC, Santa Barbara. He is the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, is the... read moreDirector of the UCSB/MIT/Caltech Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, and is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering. He received a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, C.P.G.S. from Cambridge, and Ph.D. from Caltech, all in Chemical Engineering. Prior to his appointment at UCSB, he has held faculty appointments at Purdue University and the University of Delaware, and held visiting positions at DuPont, Weyerhaeuser, and Stuttgart University. He has been recognized as a Fellow of multiple professional organizations including: the IEEE, IFAC, AIMBE, and the AAAS. In 2005, he was awarded the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the CAST Division of AIChE for his innovative work in systems biology. His research interests are in systems biology, network science, modeling and analysis of circadian rhythms, and drug delivery for diabetes.