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John C. Doyle 道耀 Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems Electrical Engineering and BioEngineering Division of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology

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Brief Bio

John Doyle is the Jean-Lou Chameau Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Electrical Engineer, and BioEngineering at Caltech, and received the BS&MS in EE, MIT (1977), and PhD in Math, UC Berkeley (1984)). Research is on mathematical foundations for complex networks with applications in biology, technology, medicine, ecology, neuroscience, and multiscale physics that integrates theory from control, computation, communication, optimization, statistics (e.g. Machine Learning). An emphasis on universal laws and architectures, robustness/efficiency and speed/accuracy tradeoffs, adaptability, and evolvability and large scale systems with sparse, saturating, delayed, quantized, uncertain sensing, communications, computing, and actuation. Early work was on robustness of feedback control systems with applications to aerospace and process control. His students and research group developed software packages like the Matlab Robust Control Toolbox and the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML).

Paper prizes include the 1990 IEEE Baker Prize (for all IEEE publications), also listed in the world top 10 “most important" papers in mathematics 1981-1993, IEEE Automatic Control Transactions Award (twice 1998, 1999), 1994 AACC American Control Conference Schuck Award, 2004 ACM Sigcomm Paper Prize and 2017 “test of time” award, and inclusion in Best Writing on Mathematics 2010. Individual awards include 1977 IEEE Power Hickernell, 1983 AACC Eckman, 1984 UC Berkeley Friedman, 1984 IEEE Centennial Outstanding Young Engineer (a one-time award for IEEE 100th anniversary) , and 2004 IEEE Control Systems Field Award. Best known for fabulous partners, friends, colleagues, and students, with 16 of his advisees (mostly PhDs, some postdocs) now professors at “THE world top” universities (Berkeley(x3), MIT(x2), ETHZ (x2), Imperial (x2), Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Hopkins, UCLA, Caltech). Has held world and national records and championships in various sports, but is otherwise extremely fragile.

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(Old) Athletics Bio

Videos and slides

I have lots of slides and video material in this large dropbox folder.

The videos are in the subfolder called VideosSlidesPapers. I recommend downloading the videos since they may otherwise play in a truncated preview mode.

A good starting point is in 1.0.NewestIntroNeuroMed with more details in 2.0.OverviewWithNeuroEmphasis and 2.2 IntroLawsArchXtraDetails.

There are also 2 short intro videos in the top folder that give an overview of the rest, but then there are much more details in other subfolders, hopefully the names are suggestive...

There is also a whole subfolder on glycolytic oscillations and another on heart rate variability. These are our best and most accessible case studies in biology and medicine.

There are papers below with additional technical details.

Somewhat Recent Application Papers

For recent theory papers see Nikolai Matni

For fairly complete list of references see Google Scholar

Education and Neuroscience: Tutorial on education for Conference on Decision and Control, 2016

Medicine: Robust efficiency and actuator saturation explain healthy heart rate control and variability‎ Li, Cruz, Chien, Sojoudi, Recht, Stone, Csete, Bahmiller, Doyle (2014), P Natl Acad Sci USA 111 (33)

Medicine: Sepsis: Something Old, Something New, and a Systems View J Crit Care. (2012)

Universal architectures: Architecture, constraints, and behavior, JC Doyle, MC Csete, P Natl Acad Sci USA, vol. 108, Sup 3 15624-15630

Biology: Gycolytic oscillations and limits on robust efficiency, FA Chandra, G Buzi, JC Doyle Science 333(6039):187-192, July 2011

Turbulence: Amplification and nonlinear mechanisms in plane Couette flow., D Gayme, B McKeon, B Bamieh, A Papachristodolou, and J Doyle. Physics of Fluids v23:6:065108 (2011)

Biology: Analysis of autocatalytic networks in biology, G Buzi, U Topcu, J Doyle, Automatica 47:1123-1130 (2011)

Earthquakes: The magnitude distribution of earthquakes near Southern California faults Page, Alderson, and Doyle JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, (2011)

Physics: On Lossless Approximations, the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem, and Limitations of Measurements, H Sandberg, JC Delvenne, JC Doyle, IEE Trans Auto Control, v56:2, 293-308 (2011)

Wireless: Cross-layer design in multihop wireless networks, L Chen, SH Low, and JC Doyle, Computer Networks 55:480–496 (2011)

Circuits: Solving Large-Scale Hybrid Circuit-Antenna Problems Lavaei, Babakhani, Hajimiri and Doyle, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 374-387, Feb. 2011.

Complexity: Contrasting Views of Complexity and Their Implications For Network-Centric Infrastructures Alderson and Doyle, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS—PART A: SYSTEMS AND HUMANS, VOL. 40, NO. 4, JULY 2010

Internet: Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of Enormous Confusion and Great Potential Willinger, Alderson, and Doyle, Notices of the AMS Volume 56, Number 5 (2009)

Fire: Fire in the Earth System, Science 324, 481 (2009)

Biology: Robustness of Cellular Functions, Stelling, Sauer, Szallasi, Doyle, and Doyle, Cell, 2004

Biology: Reverse Engineering of Biological Complexity, Csete and Doyle, Science, (2002)

• More Papers

Research

John Doyle's research current research interests are in theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, focusing on architecture, and for multiscale physics. Early work was in the mathematics of robust control, including extensions to nonlinear and networked systems.

News

• Dennice Gayme (Hopkins) named Carol Linde Croft Faculty Scholar

• Na (Lina) Li (Harvard) gets NSF CAREER and AFOSR YI awards.

• Javad Lavaei (Berkeley) gets SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize and AACC Eckman, and too many other awards to list.

• Old: Discover magazine "This man wants to control the internet" by Carl Zimmer, Discover magazine, 2008.

• Newer: Blog and new videos Follow link to dropbox folder with accessible introductory videos and case studies in neuroscience, cell biology, and medical physiology. Our you can go directly to the dropbox folder or see above video lists.

Please download the .mp4 files from the dropbox, otherwise they will run in preview mode, which limits the time.

Not very recent talk slides

U Wisc Madison CS Sept 2012 pdf

UCSB Sage lectures, May 2012. (These are pdf files. Ask me for the ppt if you want to steal anything. I would be very flattered.)

Lecture 1 May 7, 2012

Lecture 2 May 14, 2012

Lecture 3 May 21, 2012

Lecture 4a May 30, 2012

Lecture 4b May 30, 2012

Summary: Universal laws and architectures (maybe start here)

Teaching

• CDS 212 Lecture 1 (2012)

• CDS 212 (Fall 2011)

• CDS 213, Robust Control (Spring 2012)
• CDS 212, Feedback Control Theory (Fall 2010)
• The Architecture of Robust, Evolvable Networks (Wi10)

Contact

Mailing Address John Doyle California Institute of Technology Control and Dynamical Systems, MC 107-81 1200 E. California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125 USA	Contact information E-mail: doyle AT caltech dot edu Office: 210 Annenberg, Phone: 626.395.4808 Admin Assistant: Nikki Fountleroy Office: 107 Steele, Email: nikkif AT caltech dot edu Phone: 626.395.4140
Other Caltech links California Institute of Technology Engineering and Applied Science Division Bioengineering Department Control and Dynamical Systems Department Electrical Engineering Department