Francis J. Doyle III, Ph.D. is one of the principal investigators for a collaborative study between Sansum Diabetes Research Institute and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The goal of the project, funded by National Institutes of Health, is to develop a model that will optimize the timing and dose of insulin based on a patient’s unique response to insulin. Dr. Doyle holds the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Control in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as appointments in the Electrical Engineering Department, and the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program. At UCSB, he is the Associate Director of the $50M Institute for Collaborative Biotechnology funded by the Army Research Office.
Dr. Doyle received his B.S.E. 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 is currently the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and holds Associate Editor positions with the Journal of Process Control, the SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, and Interface. His research interests are in systems biology, drug delivery for diabetes, and control of particulate processes.