Dale E. Seborg is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and his Ph.D degree from Princeton University. Before joining UCSB in 1977, he taught at the University of Alberta for nine years. He also served as the department chair at UCSB for a three year period.

Dr. Seborg has published over 140 articles on process control & related topics, and is the co-author of a widely used textbook, Process Dynamics and Control (1989), with Professors Duncan Mellichamp (UCSB) and Tom Edgar (UT-Austin). Their textbook has been translated into Korean (1995) and Japanese (1996). Dr. Seborg is also co-editor of three books including a 1996 book, Nonlinear Process Control, with Professor Michael Henson (LSU). Dr. Seborg has taught a variety of industrial short courses around the world including Japan, China, Kuwait and Australia. He is also an active industrial consultant.

Dr. Seborg is the recipient, or co-recipient, of several national awards which include the American Statistical Association's Statistics in Chemistry Award (1994), the American Automatic Control Council's Education Award (1993), the American Society of Engineering Education's Meriam-Wiley Distinguished Author Award (1990), and the Joint Automatic Control Conference Best Paper Award (1973). He also received the Technical Achievement Award from the AIChE Southern California Section in 1980.

Among his numerous professional activities, Dr. Seborg was the General Chair for the 1992 American Control Conference, a co-organizer of the Chemical Process Control (CPC-2) Conference, and the International Program Committee Chair for the IFAC ADCHEM '88 Symposium. He has also served as a director of the American Automatic Control Council and the AIChE CAST Division. Dr. Seborg currently serves on the editorial board of the IEE Proc. on Control Theory and Applications. Previously, he was an Associate Editor at Large for the IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, and a member of the editorial boards for the Int. J. HVAC & R Research, and for the International J. of Adaptive Control & Signal Processing.