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Lucy Hodgins

Podcast in which I interview fascinating people from within the world of control theory/ control engineering. Primarily aimed at PhD/masters students but can hopefully be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in control.

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  • S2 · E11
    September 1 · 1 hr 5 min

    IFAC World Congress Special

    In this episode I take you with me to the 2026 IFAC World Congress in Busan, South Korea, where I got to talk to a bunch of wonderful control researchers about their work. We cover a wide range of fascinating research areas, including observer design for transportation, event-triggered control, consensus control, extremum-seeking, robotic manipulation, control education and outreach, and a whole lot more! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XE4krcWk6KgQjUUtgxKejmsTBYTermPeL9e3uVOnRJQ/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Workshops Arun Tangirala: https://arunkt-dev.github.io/ Prem Jagadeesan: https://www.amrita.edu/faculty/prem-jagadeesan/ Paper on defining sloppiness: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282609 Tom Oomen: https://toomen.eu/ Monday inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Selsabil Bougherara: https://www.uphf.fr/lamih/membres/bougherara_selsabil Shengya Meng: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shengya-meng-1b299a294/ Laura Albert: https://engineering.wisc.edu/directory/profile/laura-albert/ Tuesday Ying Tan: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/28203-ying-tan Miroslav Krstic inControl interview: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/16954129-ep31-miroslav-krstic-nonlinear-adaptive-control-pdes-delays-extremum-seeking-safety-neural-operators-for-control ESC paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4177053 Wednesday Frank Park: https://me.snu.ac.kr/en/snu__professor/park-frank-chongwoo/ Talk on geometric methods for robot learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIKZzlomGIY Pritesh Patel: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/667tf7/doctor-pritesh-patel Paper on stability of adaptive control of switched systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1751570X25000457 Interview with Brian Douglas: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yUF9sf0cM2K9AeoQzoHal Nikwist: https://www.nikwist.be/ David Tinoco: https://dtinas10.github.io/homepage/ Quantum control podcast episodes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5t577mI6iCh6ypd40nMxBQ https://open.spotify.com/episode/31XLcllhy4XK7gQ9NnDGfz Olaf Stursberg:  https://www.uni-kassel.de/eecs/en/sections/control-and-system-theory/team/prof-stursberg.html Sudhanshu Shekhar: https://www.iitk.ac.in/sudhanshu-shekhar Sonia Martinez: http://muro.ucsd.edu/sonia/ Overview of coverage control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.13890 Paper on optimal transport: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8619816 ThursdayArkadeep Saha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arkadeep-saha-1b1a84252/ Steve Brunton SINDy videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCa78TIldg Open source soft robotic platform: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5609765 https://github.com/ReshapeTUe/Soft-Legged-Wheel-Testbed Nicolás Faedo: https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=nicolas.faedo Emilia Fushimi: http://www.gca.ing.unlp.edu.ar/?q=fushimi Tore Gude: https://www.ntnu.no/ansatte/tore.gude Friday Dan Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson/profileview/edit/ Cristina Stoica: https://l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/stoica-cristina/ IFAC youTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ifacyoutube3132 OosCar non-linear control video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaOk003CiqA Art and control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awx-LOdbNH8 Rebecca Thien: https://l2s.centralesupelec.fr/en/u/thien-rebbecca-tze-yean/Kuberknots podcast: https://kuberknots.com/ IET travel support: https://www.theiet.org/impact-society/awards-prizes-and-scholarships/travel-awards

  • August 1 · 59 min

    Francesca Boem (Distributed Monitoring and Attack Detection)

    In this episode I had the pleasure of talking to the fantastic Francesca Boem about her work on monitoring networked systems, approaches to detecting faults and cyber attacks, as well as her new start-up helping to ensure the security of wireless health-tech devices! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ttf7raapfDW4_aj3mnD8mSoy704d9T9BLnJk9QXbLqM/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ Drop me an email if you’re attending IFAC WC: L.Hodgins@soton.ac.uk References Francesca Boem: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/65682-francesca-boem PhD thesis: https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/c9e28dd2-a9f3-4deb-bfb9-886a8f5d1661/details Thomas Parisini: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/t.parisini Distributed fault detection paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6580380 Detectability of cyber attacks: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8264562 Cyber attack detection for microgrids: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054955 Detecting covert cyber attacks: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9104026 Detecting replay attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.00737 Fault-tolerant control/ active fault diagnosis: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8700304 CONTROL 2026 episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MTAxQo4PlTC0zo7OcYRB4 BLE vulnerabilities paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212293/1/ISCAS_2025_V4.pdf  GiancarloFerrari Tricate: https://people.epfl.ch/giancarlo.ferraritrecate KIOS centre: https://www.kios.ucy.ac.cy/

  • S2 · E9
    July 1 · 50 min

    CONTROL 2026 (ACE Network/ UKACC Conference Special)

    In this episode I have the pleasure of attending the CONTROL2026 conference, and bring you along with me! This conference was the largest gatheringof control engineers in the UK recent years, co-organized by the ACE network and UK Automatic Control Council (UKACC). Join me as I explore the ACE network and some of the fabulous control engineering research taking place across theUK! Join the ACE network!: ⁠https://ukcontrol.org/join-ace You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1131VDAX37W9GOJ87c0PZqXt83VMds1rAdapr1HdgN3Q/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Control 2026: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/ Conference proceedings: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Control-2026-Proceedings-Booklet.pdf ACE network: https://ukcontrol.org/ UKACC: https://ukacc.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/ IFAC: https://www.ifac-control.org/ Pramod Khargonekar: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/khargonekar/ Slides from his talk: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/yaf5rk Norbert Weiner: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norbert-Wiener Automony vs automation: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01004-z InControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/11513053-ep6-norbert-wiener-and-cybernetics Macy Conference proceedings: http://cybernetic-bookshelf.org:8083/book/2636Dartmouth conference: https://opendigitalai.org/en/the-dartmouth-conference-1956-the-big-bang-of-ai/ John McCarthy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCarthy Daniel Coca: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/danielcoca.html EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Interview with Andy Lawrence: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BvPXw3YyoqdsvbQ573OF1 William Heath: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/scse/william-heath-680178/en Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi Antonis Papachristodoulou: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/antonis-papachristodoulou Stephen Duncan: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-stephen-duncan/ Francesca Boem: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/f.boem EDI survey: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/ahijky Mentorship scheme sign-up form: https://ukcontrol.org/ace-network-mentor-scheme ACE position paper: https://ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ACE-Position-Paper.pdf Network + survey: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yRJQnBa2wkSpF2aBT74-hyrBNzE3vqFAgmzn8RVGrRVUM1pNMEZFREExUTBJQ1dRUkJTNFRGNEJPVi4u&route=shorturl Claude shutdown: https://www.ithinkdiff.com/claude-fable-5-disabled-us-government/ Brian Douglas podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yUF9sf0cM2K9AeoQzoHal Chao Gu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chao-gu-609073220/ Petri nets: http://www.petri-net.de/ AEGEAN: https://en.about.aegeanair.com/company/fleet/ Liam Hallinan: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LmZyKIIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Salma Iraky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salmassabry/ TERRA github: https://github.com/sssabry/tera Anton Selivanov: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Selivanov Allan Nascimento (Multi-horizon MPC author): https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/author/867072138905292 Miroslav Krstic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/ Neural operators: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08481 Mohammad Adballah: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/meme/staff/phd/mohammad-abdallah/ Luke Rickard: https://www.lukerickard.co.uk/ Will Rohde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wfmrohde/ Dan Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson Anthony Rossiter: https://ieeecss.org/contact/anthony-rossiter Control101 toolbox: https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/130439-control-101-toolbox

  • S2 · E8
    June 7 · 52 min

    Carmen Amo Alonso: Part 2 (AI Architectures and the Dynamics of Intelligence)

    In the second part of my interview with the incredibly talented Carmen Amo Alonso we discuss her fascinating work at the intersection of AI and control, examining topics such as: Using tools from control theory to analyse and design AI systems Controlling large language models to guarantee a particular sentiment for their output Using vision-language-action models to control robots using language and a whole lot more! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ph1yaQuV_ybRM8h9rU5Uvmz9eB5Ar4HVhcBnc7b7zJ8/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References The architecture of language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApC0AWWTajU Diffusion models: https://the-principles-of-diffusion-models.github.io/ Skip connection paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10609 Review of state-space models in AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16899 3 Blue 1 Brown video on transformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M Dynamical systems framework paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15731 Designing sequence models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09389v1 Controlling LLM output: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15454v3 Controllability of LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05637v1 Vision-language-action model paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05487v1 NARRATE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10762 DEMONSTRATE: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12855v1 Domitilla Del Vecchio: https://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/ddv@MIT.EDU Biomolecular feedback systems book: https://www.fbswiki.org/wiki/index.php/Biomolecular_Feedback_Systems Mathias Foo episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1G3vhRoeenTWRrEwauT0ne inControl episodes: Mario di Bernardo: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/19167890-ep44-mario-di-bernardo-from-circuits-to-cells-and-swarms-control-meets-complexity Mustafa Khammash: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/12648716-ep11-mustafa-khammash-cybergenetics John Doyle: https://ieeecss.org/contact/john-doyle InControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/12841020-ep12-john-doyle-part-i-a-pioneer-s-guide-to-robust-control-the-past-present-and-future Jerome Sieber: https://jerome.sieber.io/

  • S2 · E7
    June 2 · 30 min

    Carmen Amo Alonso: Part 1 (Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control)

    In this episode I talk to the very wonderful Carmen Amo Alonso about her (award-winning) PhD research on distributed and localised MPC. We also cover super interesting and useful concepts such as system-level synthesis and ADMM, as well as her internship working at Tesla! You can access the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SErvHtKoE18QzelHDUh9im6AeG3zKPWZLRoNGx5BUyg/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Carmen: https://camoalon.github.io/ JPL: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ John Doyle: https://ieeecss.org/contact/john-doyle Feedback in biological control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9867859 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9867794 Thesis: https://thesis.caltech.edu/15262/3/Carmen_Amo_Alonso_Caltech_PhD_Thesis.pdf Distributed localised MPC paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9939038 Professor Melanie Zeilinger: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/melanie-zeilinger-0 SLS for robust nonlinear optimal control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04943 Professor Nikolai Matni: https://nikolaimatni.github.io/ System-level synthesis tutorial: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01634 YouTube videos on DLMPC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2Wbriy2Zg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhtuGZp8QM0&t=302s ADMM survey paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03700 Professor James Anderson: https://www.columbia.edu/~ja3451/ Data-driven DLMCP: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9772975 Willems fundamental lemma: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/262195/1/PersistencyExcitation.pdf Paolo Rapisarda episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw Implementing DLMP on GPUs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9831839 Clubes de Ciencia: Mexico: https://clubesdeciencia.mx/ Peru: https://clubesdecienciaperu.org/ Terry Sejnowski: https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/tsejnowski

  • May 1 · 34 min

    Journal Clubs (Creating reading groups that people want to be part of)

    In this episode I talk to three lovely researchers all about journal clubs (AKA reading groups) – what they are, why you might want to be part of one, and how to start your own! I also give some insights from my own experiences running a (control-related) journal club, as well as a summary of three of my favourite papers we’ve read. You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19i4egf_2KEWqkp94ZW3QjRTH8PeAZz6yEix8zoSfx4k/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Al Edwards: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62mm7y/doctor-al-edwards Antonia Marcu: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xk5lz/miss-antonia-marcu Convexification for soft landing optimal control paper: http://www.larsblackmore.com/iee_tcst13.pdf Improved soft robotic parameterisation paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8961972 KKL observer synthesis paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11655

  • S2 · E6
    April 1 · 58 min

    Brian Douglas (Control Engineering in Industry)

    In this episode I got the opportunity to sit down with the fantastic Brian Douglas and talk about what it's like to be a control engineer in industry, common misconceptions he had, and advice for current students. We also discussed his YouTube channel, as well as a few more technical aspects of projects he's been involved with over the years! You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gAyIAgd3RzVSSDmJ-As0gzJVekJG3IqU2L-1zJhuKYs/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Brian Douglas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-douglas-505b7175/ Engineering Media (Brian’s company): https://engineeringmedia.com/ Original YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0imsn84ShAe9PBOFnoIrg MATLAB YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MATLAB Co-design podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3upRUgZBy79tqihMy9BDsJ Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium Smarter every day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6107grRI4m0o2-emgoDnAA Mark Rober: https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober Formal verification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kINfn-ZYiLY InControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/15223020-ep24-brian-douglas-boeing-control-videos-resourcium-map-of-control-theory-cartoons-mathworks

  • S2 · E5
    March 1 · 1 hr 9 min

    Gioele Zardini (Engineering Trade-offs and Co-design)

    In this episode I got to speak with the fantastic Gioele Zardini about his work on the co-design framework, a fascinating framework used to optimise large interconnected systems. We cover the theoretical background of this, intuition behind it, and a ton of different applications where it’s useful, as well as discussing exciting open questions in the field! Find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XPZr9jP4Lphskkw-SiM8h-x1kp7LROqZ243S6zA7EsY/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Gioele Zardini: https://zardini.mit.edu/ PhD thesis: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/d7c08dd5-bf96-4c1f-a744-5e751f0f44a5 PhDs in control interview: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555200 Emilio Frazzoli: https://idsc.ethz.ch/research-frazzoli/people/person-detail.frazzoli.html Andrea Cenci: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/andrea-censi Marco Pavone: https://profiles.stanford.edu/marco-pavone NuTonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuTonomy(current site: https://motional.com/) Brad Nelson: https://msrl.ethz.ch/the-lab/team/Brad_Nelson.html David Sacramuza: https://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/people_scaramuzza.html Yujun Huang: https://zardini.mit.edu/people/yujun-huang/ Uncertainty in co-design paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02766 Background refs on category theory: David Spivak: https://dspivak.net/ Brendan Fong: http://brendanfong.com/ Gioele's work in progress book: https://storage.zuper.ai/sync/ACT4E/ACT4E/alphubel-prod/build/last/build-public/ACT4E-public.pdf YouTube talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAz6fEPa2o Gioele's course: https://zardini.mit.edu/act4ed/ MIT applied category theory course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-s097-applied-category-theory-january-iap-2019/ Seven sketches in compositionality: http://brendanfong.com/fong_spivak_an_invitation.pdf LQG control co-design paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9654960 LQG background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4_hFazBGxU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RDCFOlJx4 Aaron Ames: http://ames.caltech.edu/ Nikolai Matni: https://nikolaimatni.github.io/ John Doyle: https://www.eas.caltech.edu/people/doyle CDC episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZUcm3gVHKILDEyDjQtXvx Braess’s paradox: https://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/departments/d1/teaching/ws12/ct/Braess-paradox.pdf Co-design of mobility-on-demand systems: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.04739 Formula One co-design papers: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/bd65f78e-f19a-4469-a379-d4b219893a33https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/JQmudB Co-design of soft robotics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.03761 Cosimo Della Santina inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/LPNORz Games with partially-ordered objectives: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.07099 Mingjia He: https://mingjia-he.github.io/ Paper on hierarchical games: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12059 Game theory episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xrwua7U2HfSW3sxY6BnRU Jeff Shamma inControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18482182-ep40-jeff-shamma-gain-scheduling-nonlinear-control-learning-dissipativity-in-games-jiu-jitsu Vincent Abbott: https://zardini.mit.edu/people/vincent-abbott/ Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sangiovanni-vicentelli.html InControl episodes: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/14692449-ep21-alberto-sangiovanni-vincentelli-part-i-classics-eda-logic-synthesis-spice-intel-x386-cadence-synopsis-platform-based-design https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/14882529-ep22-alberto-sangiovanni-vincentelli-part-ii-cyberphysical-and-hybrid-systems-contracts-chiplets-models-of-computation-time-innovative-ecosystems-biobricks-neuromorphics John Doyle: https://www.eas.caltech.edu/people/doyle

  • S2 · E3
    February 1 · 54 min

    Barbara Franci (Game Theory and Resource Allocation)

    In this episode I have a lovely conversation with Dr Barbara Franci about her research into game theory, exploring both theoretical concepts (such as variational inequalities, forwards-backwards algorithms, and stochastic Nash equilibrium-seeking problems) and practical applications, including resource allocation, energy management, and generative adversarial networks! You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h9AbCPzzlt7ggNOGx3bK3pwSaCUo__LtYzvdJ-5wqYw/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Barbara Franci: https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/b-franci PhD thesis: https://tesidottorato.depositolegale.it/bitstream/20.500.14242/198173/1/FRANCI%20Tesi2.pdf More background on evolutionary games: https://users.ssc.wisc.edu/~whs/teaching/805/handbook.pdf Jeff Shamma inConctrol episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18482182-ep40-jeff-shamma-gain-scheduling-nonlinear-control-learning-dissipativity-in-games-jiu-jitsu Wisdom of a crowd paper: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/18M1232267 Francesco Bullo: https://fbullo.github.io/ Original Galton paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/075450a0 Video on the Lagrangian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR4ff0dTLTw Useful lecture notes on these concepts: https://www.mit.edu/~gfarina/notes/ Distributed forwards-backwards paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9309063 Extragradient paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11184508 Relaxed inertial forwards-backwards paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9682905 Professor Lacra Pavel: https://www.ece.utoronto.ca/people/pavel-l/ Deterministic decoupling paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330888828_An_operator_splitting_approach_for_distributed_generalized_Nash_equilibria_computation Pseudo-monotone functions: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225986571_Pseudomonotone_Operators_A_Survey_of_the_Theory_and_Its_Applications Inertial gradient descent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iudXf5n_3ro&t=60s GANs paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9523601 Original Goodfellow paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661 Partial information paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109821006300 Incorporating a bias: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10886508 Nash games with misleading information: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11008595 Evolutionary dynamics in distributed control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7823106

  • January 9 · 25 min

    Meet the Faculty Candidates (Fascinating research from the CDC poster session)

    In this bonus episode I explore the work of ten fascinating researchers that I met at the Meet the Faculty Candidates poster session at CDC last month. We cover a wide array of different areas, including data-driven methods, fault-tolerant control, biological systems, PDEs, distributed estimation and a whole lot more! Correction: At ~5:20 I mention that Anju was able to characterize the strategies of the two communicating entities at the Nash equilibrium - In actual fact this is a Stackelberg equilibrium (Stackelberg games involve players acting sequentially, taking either a leader or follower role) You can view the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tf4ORHPI5Thbs-nA9DQTSu87TKbYni9JJN2UXqn5kU/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ Links and references Amy Strong: https://bridgeman.pratt.duke.edu/people/amy-strong Paper on data-driven invariance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19231 Anju Anand: https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/anjuanand Strategic quantisation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10960399 Incorporating privacy into the objective: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06321 Brian Block: https://mae.osu.edu/people/block.168 Control of PDE traffic flow: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04823 Declan Jagt: https://search.asu.edu/profile/3729730 Stability analysis of coupled multivariate PDEs: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14840 Scalar quadratic PDEs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10384073 PIETOOLS software: https://control.asu.edu/pietools/pietools Hamza El-Kebir: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-el-kebir/ Control authority degradation paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10354437 Sensor and actuator degradation: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10521243 Electrosurgery paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article/21/210/20230420/90578/Heat-conduction-in-live-tissue-during Electrostatic signed distance functions: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12554 Kirill Sechkar: https://engbio.ox.ac.uk/people/kirill-sechkar Control of genetic circuits paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.01.646303v2.full.pdf Nick Marios Kokolakis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-marios-t-kokolakis-44717b164/ Pre-defined time RL paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005109825003152 Parth Paritosh: https://pptx.github.io/pparitosh/Estimating a subset of variables: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.01227 Privacy preserving paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11073227 Radoslaw Patelski: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radoslaw-patelski/?originalSubdomain=pl Observers for hovercraft: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9874346 ADRC with parameter identification: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10345678 ADRC with adaptive input gain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019057825001089 Carmen Amo Alonso: https://camoalon.github.io/ Research overview: https://camoalon.github.io/research/ Comparing mixer blocks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15731 Intro to state space models in deep learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.16899 Combining generative AI with control in robotics: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.10762

  • S2 · E3
    January 1 · 51 min

    CDC special (Conference of Decision and Control 2025)

    In this episode I bring my microphones with me to the conference of decision and control (CDC) where I talk to a load of interesting researchers about their recent work. Featuring discussion of a wide range of different topics, including reinforcement learning, control architecture, game theory, AI-human interaction, event-triggered control and a whole lot more! You can view the episode transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h6PdTd9xLTcJOGPx6TIkXOKPz_NGoS9_sA8CUvoZlx8/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ CDC web-page: https://cdc2025.ieeecss.org/ Female influencers in control: https://www.control.lth.se/external-engagement/female-influencers-in-automatic-control/ Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7VtNHI6bG8UBEoSGiAuVXNsmXSHlw8xG0LuMon2DVd0Pv0A/viewform inControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18361436-ep39-female-influencers-in-control Alessandro Abate: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/alessandro.abate/ Maegan Tucker: https://maegantucker.com/ Joe Moeller: https://joe-moeller.com/ Category theory blog: https://joe-moeller.com/hi/ Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771 inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9HLW37 Spiking control of a snake: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02968 Neuromorphic architecture: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.11924 Raj Velichete: https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/grad-students/rkv4 Vijeth Hebber: https://www.vijethhebbar.com/ John Doyle: https://www.eas.caltech.edu/people/doyle InControl episodes: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/yx0IF5https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/qtk0Le Dimos Dimarogonas: https://people.kth.se/~dimos/ Plenary on formal verification for multi-agent systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C3GSgVmxdo&t=1327s Attacks on controlling multi-agent systems: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11036540 ESC inspired by insect flapping: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11006034 My CDC paper: https://pure.soton.ac.uk/admin/files/315205732/CDC2025_2_.pdf Jorge Poveda: https://poveda.ucsd.edu/ Victoria Grushkovskaya: https://grushkovska.science/ Higher-order Lie bracket extremum-seeking: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.07092 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.01136 Azu Ozdaglar: https://asu.mit.edu/ Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DR37zdEKPw Matt Turner: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5y5nkg/professor-matthew-turner Matt Turner episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KLLOvbCjOkL0v8iXo84vt Kemin Zhou: https://www.ece.lsu.edu/kemin/ Multiobjective complementary control: https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/document/10767397 Yujun Huang: https://zardini.mit.edu/people/yujun-huang/ Tyler Hanks: https://gataslab.org/members/tylerhanks NextCom: https://sites.google.com/view/css-nextcom NextCom podcast episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7exZHRwVazI8AaHtiSMmE8 Csaba Szepesvari: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~szepesva/ Friday plenary talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU Fengyu Yue: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fengyu-yue-8849a6314/?originalSubdomain=il Pio Ong: https://pioong.github.io/ Jacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/?lang=en Bode lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU (Skip to 4:52:46) Alberto Padoan episode on model order reduction: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12O Meggie Maschner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meggie-marschner-445634236/?originalSubdomain=de Brooks Butler: https://sites.google.com/view/brooks-butler Mauro Salazar: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/mauro-salazar Design of smart cities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W2IrHyuSjU (Skip to 8:32:49)

  • Dec 27, 2025 · 18 min

    IEEE NextCom (Fostering Community Within Controls Research)

    In this episode I talk to some wonderful members of IEEEcontrol systems society (CSS) NextCom committee about their work fostering inclusivity and belonging within CSS, as well as empowering the next generation of leaders within control. We also cover how you can be a part of this! You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/186arBxVLdcpHUCT9djgXQ7IMVvX5SLsMk0LmnzOLbRY/edit?usp=sharing Fill in this leadership interest survey if you’d like to getinvolved: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-9qK13qYOSylyo-L-s8LvIYjd9bUmWlpd7zj2C7cxDASK-Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=113511961640315346198 Slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/next-comworkspace/shared_invite/zt-3kz84ooc6-iLeTIhTKs5oMwJ8ccjTZxw(This link will time-out after a little while – if you find it’s not working you can contract me or one of the other committee members and we can add you directly!) Links and references NextCom webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/css-nextcom Brooks Butler: https://sites.google.com/view/brooks-butler Email: bbutler2@uci.edu Anastasia Bizyaeva: https://anastasiabzv.github.io/ Email: anastasiab@cornell.edu Phil E Paré: https://sites.google.com/view/philpare Umar Niazi: https://sites.google.com/view/umarniazi/ Urmee Maitra: https://urmeemaitra.github.io/ Carina Veil: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carina-veil Pio Ong: https://pioong.github.io/ Leonardo Toso: https://leotoso.github.io/ ECC episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4PAlFzgSoLM6andaXEWB8e

  • S2 · E2
    Dec 1, 2025 · 57 min

    Sophie Schirmer (Quantum Control 2: Controllability and Robustness)

    This month I got to interview Sophie Schirmer about herfascinating work on quantum control, including notions such as controllability and realisability, different types of quantum states (including pure, mixed, and dark states), comparison between different approaches to optimisation, and the quantum phenomena inside MRI scanners! You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0TFtckp7zEKCG0wdMHY0nySptrzbkV9ohQExa6ykGg/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Sophie’s thesis: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/63c4205b-9a0d-4622-833f-377f975c8cb3 Herschel Rabitz papers: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/acp/article-abstract/334/1/160/783416/Control-of-quantum-dynamics-The-dream-is-alive?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.259.5101.1581 Control paradigms for quantum engineering: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2890 Energy landscape shaping as feedback control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8119551 Kinematic bounds paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.58.2684 Dynamic realisability of systems that aren’t completelycontrollable: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/912046 Types of controllability: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0305-4470/35/18/309 More detail in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110171 Hilbert spaces: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~hunter/book/ch6.pdf Pure vs mixed states: https://medium.com/@emilmarinov/pure-mixed-and-entangled-quantum-states-84e8a4a8dd16 Controllability with a single actuator: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0721 Dark states and their enlightenment: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.4290 Quantum gravity lecture: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/oxford-mathematics-public-lectures-carlo-rovelli-spin-networks-quantum-structure-spacetime-penroses Incorporating encoding into quantum system design: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.109.042408 Ilja Kuprov: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x97wv/professor-ilya-kuprov Beyondpiecewise constant controls: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09458 Lyaounov functions: https://underactuated.mit.edu/lyapunov.html p.s. I would highly recommend the inControl episode on AleksandrLyapunov: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/18019902-ep37-a-m-lyapunov-the-general-problem-of-stability-of-motion Control Lyapunov functions: https://stanford.edu/class/ee363/lectures/io-lyap.pdf Lyapunov control of quantum systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=5415539 Entanglement generation: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042305 Bell states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_state Edmund Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/ SSV paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9682796 Robust control of open quantum systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9792196 Entanglement generation in a lossy cavity: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9992337 Quantum reservoir engineering: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667016316962 Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d/pdf Schrodinger’s cat review paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjd/e2015-60464-1 Feynman’s lectures on physics: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

  • S2 · E1
    Nov 1, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min

    Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application)

    In this month’s episode got to talk to Dr Carrie Weidner allabout controlling quantum systems! I find out what the control objective is forthese systems, how to characterise their robustness (or at least attempt to),how easy it is to apply this to practical systems, and a lot more besides. You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aixaD-P6R6jFDjS4Zp6nJ2n5ZHPfbWKYCue2v2_ZCVU/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References PhD thesis: https://jila.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/2019-03/Weidner_PhD_final.pdf Sabine Hauert episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65iwMh2NstKqXvfATpzfm4 Sabine episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12t_8k9LRckeGB--YVDS0XWnOeLX8sQcY3njA7jBCj1o/edit?usp=sharing Carrie’s quantum control survey: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00294 Sophie Shermer: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/s.schirmer/ Frank Langbein: https://langbein.org/ Edmond Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/ Sean O’Neil: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=250lKHEAAAAJ&hl=en Phila Rembold: https://qusco-itn.eu/portfolio_page/phila-rembold-2/ Bases in quantum control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20889 Nelder-Mead optmisation: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Nelder-Mead_algorithm#Advantages_and_disadvantageshttps://brandewinder.com/2022/03/31/breaking-down-Nelder-Mead/ Ronnie Kosloff: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1211067/prof-dr-ronnie-kosloff Belavkin-Carmichael quantum filter: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510028 Luenburg filter papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06454 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6426181 Non-Markovian systems papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073023 https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09637 Christiane Koch: https://atominnen.at/empower/interviews/382-christiane-koch Open quantum systems paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/28/21/213001 Carrie’s mu analysis paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12385 Randa Herzallah: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/herzallah/ Paper on quantum optimal control: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207179.2024.2342939 Quantum thermodynamics paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.012139 Irtaza Khalid: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/khalidmi Robustness-infidelity metric paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.032606 Time-domain log-sensitivity paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15783 Unifying log-sensitivity and RIM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09518 Robust quantum control papers: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05372 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13691 Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d Jacob Sherson: https://jacobsherson.com/ David DiVincenzo: https://qutech.nl/person/david-divincenzo/ Enrico Fermi: https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/greatinventors/enricofermi/index.html Physical review letters paper: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.263201 Point spread modification paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05341

  • Oct 9, 2025 · 52 min

    Andy Lawrence (EPSRC grant funding)

    In this episode I sit down with Dr Andy Lawrence and learn all about the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), including his top tips on successful grant applications, advice for not getting discouraged by rejected submissions, how to build successful collaborations with industry, and a lot more besides! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FxscV2YjbfeI_u26ETkA25hMwGVmJojHdV5zj7J7wyE/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References Andy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-lawrence-7ab0361a/ UKRI: https://www.ukri.org/ EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Standard mode open funding: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/standard-research/ New investigator awards: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/new-investigator-award/ Network grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/network-grants/ Travel grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/international-funding/overseas-travel-grants/ Program grants: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/types-of-funding-we-offer/programme-grants/ Lyapunov theory: https://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/courses/cds101/fa02/caltech/mls93-lyap.pdf Kalman filtering: https://thekalmanfilter.com/kalman-filter-explained-simply/ https://kalmanfilter.net/ Non-compressible haemorrhage funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/novel-technology-for-intervening-in-non-compressible-haemorrhage/ General multidisciplinary scheme: https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/ukri-cross-research-council-responsive-mode-pilot-scheme/ Details and support regarding EPSRC remit: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-applicants/epsrc-remit/ UKRI funding service: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/develop-your-application/how-applicants-use-the-ukri-funding-service/ Peer review college: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/guidance-for-reviewers/peer-review-college/ Nature-based engineering funding call: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/unlocking-the-full-potential-of-nature-based-engineering/ UKRI remit agreement: https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/get-support-for-your-project/if-your-research-spans-different-disciplines/ Robotic mandibles project: https://www.ukri.org/news/copying-ants-could-help-robots-get-a-better-grip/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05364

  • S1 · E12
    Oct 1, 2025 · 53 min

    Alberto Padoan: Part 2 (Distances between behaviours and inControl podcast)

    This episode features the second part of my interview with the fantastic Alberto Padoan! Featuring discussions of data-driven modelling in a geometric/ non-linear context, how to define distances in a behavioural systems setting, and the origin story of his podcast, inControl. You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/y67vmp Follow the podcast on linkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast Or connect with me personally: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ Alberto episode part 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1kwlnlQqtID1naRcyLL12O Paolo Rapisarda: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5x2hb9/professor-paolo-rapisarda (Coffee and Control episode) https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw Persistency of excitation for autonomous systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7902166 Giordano Scarciotti: https://giordanoscarciotti.com/ Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi Alessandro’s paper on moment matching: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5437314 Almost periodicity: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2022/02/16/almost-periodic-functions/ Examples of uses of polynomial matrices in behaviouralsystems context: https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/linear-differential-systems-2 Conical, convex, and affine behaviours paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10383687 Jan Willems behavioural systems paper: https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/smc/jwillems/Articles/ConferenceArticles/2002/5.pdf Ettore Fornasini: https://www.dei.unipd.it/~fornasini/ Data-driven control Stuttgart: ⁠https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/Y3ytXoAutonomous e-scooter: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/oMiusDSoft robotics: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992740MPC control of covid outbreaks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136757882030078X?via%3Dihub Florian Dörfler: https://dorfler.ethz.ch/ John Lygeros: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.john-lygeros.html Jeremy Coulson: https://jeremycoulson.github.io/ Keith Moffat: www.keithmoffat.comAlessandro Chuiso: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/alessandro-chiuso/ Linear quadratic tracking paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7068299 Ivan Markovsky: https://imarkovs.github.io/ Distances between finite horizon behaviours: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11022752 Uncertainty quantification in data-driven control: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9993002 Split-as-a-pro: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.19411 Yu Tang: https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/yu-tang Carlo Cenedese: https://ee.ethz.ch/the-department/people-a-z/person-detail.Mjg0OTQz.TGlzdC8zMjc5LC0xNjUwNTg5ODIw.html Alessio Rimoldi: https://github.com/AlessioRimoldi Behavioural uncertainty gap metric paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9993002 Vidyasagar inControl episode (ep 33): https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/wfzcsi Malcolm Smith: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mcs1000Glenn Vinnicombe: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/gv103 DeePC: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05890 CDC/LSS paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22849 Steve Brunton SVD series: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/isMaZS inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ NCCR automation: https://nccr-automation.ch/ Rudolf Kalman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_E._K%C3%A1lm%C3%A1n Jan Willems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Camiel_Willems George Zames: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zames Norbert Weiner inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/7PQUfdRichard Bellman inControl episode: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/XGgk11(Miroslav Kristic) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1RD07e(Tryphon Georgiou) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/mwpfwx(Mustafa Khammash) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/T0BsyS

  • Sep 1, 2025 · 1 hr

    Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction)

    In this episode I sit down with the wonderful Alberto Padoan and discuss his work on model order reduction and generalising concepts from linear systems to the non-linear setting. You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/IRMql9 Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Andrea Marson: https://andreamarson.com/bio/ Master’s thesis: https://thesis.unipd.it/retrieve/82963fa4-bbb4-4577-9b83-b4e741a3ce20/main.pdf Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi Sandro Zampieri: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/old/people/zampieri.html inControl guide to Controllability and Observability: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/haKThe Stieltjes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joannes_Stieltjes PhD thesis: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/sImTiq Keith Glover: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/kg103 Coffee and Control episode with Paolo Rapisarda: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw Thesis on Krylov projectors for model reduction: https://perso.uclouvain.be/paul.vandooren/ThesisGrimme.pdf Sylvester equations and model reduction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042703007143 Book on Sylvester equations: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/e7nYSQ Jacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/cv?lang=en Alberto Isidori: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/isidori/ Murray Wonham book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1082-5 Basile and Marro book: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/gE3KxH Eigenvalues/ poles of nonlinear systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264032 Books on creativity: Ernest Hemmingway quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway Dynamics of Creation (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamics-Creation-Anthony-Storr/dp/0345376730)explores how creativity helps resolve inner conflict. Moment matching at singularities: (Complex analytic) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317314957 (Geometric) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264369 Moments of random variables: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8637762 Klein bottle videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU Distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(differential_geometry) https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~ban00101/anman2009/lecture2.pdf http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wangzuoq/Courses/18F-Manifolds/Notes/Lec15.pdf András Sasfi: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.andras-sasfi.html Model reduction of dominant systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109821002156 Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771 (inControl episode) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1cOrwp (Paper on spiking systems) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9764708 Fulvio Forni: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/ff286 Goldbeter model: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9016794/ Goodwin model: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23936338/ Dominance margins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319318671 Early papers on dominance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06155 https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01721 Intro to Nyquist diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sof3meN96MA John Doyle: (inControl interviews) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/BTj37k https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/k0PXan Gioele Zardini: https://gioele.science/Alberto San Giovanni Vincentelli: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sangiovanni-vicentelli.html (inControl interviews) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9fYOiB https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/ehkaV9

  • S1 · E10
    Aug 1, 2025 · 1 hr

    Ying Shuai Quan (Model Predictive Control and Autonomous Driving)

    In this episode I sit down with Dr Ying Shuai Quan and getexcited about her work on adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems, with particular focus on applying model predictive control. Features deep-dives into various aspects of MPC, with occasional offshoots into other cool areas of control! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ufp57VuzymcEivN3lzMaHVKgH8LgqI9BZDzgmdz2pug/edit?usp=sharing Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/ Or you can connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ References/ cool papers to learn more Ying’s thesis: https://repository.hanyang.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11754/188296 Tube-based adaptive cruise control paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9992382 Motion sickness patents: (general system) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250115255A1/en (control and estimation) https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250128715A1/en Tutorial on IQCs: https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84979771505 Classic LMI book: https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/lmibook/lmibook.pdf LMIs in control book chapter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-84800-025-4_4 Steve Brunton MPC video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwodGM2eoy4&t=1s Great review/ tutorial paper on MPC: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00170-021-07682-3 Review on linear fractional transformations: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/261572 Ying’s control-barrier functions paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10130631 Tutorial paper on CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10836828 Review on control barrier functions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10836828 Using CBFs in MPC: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08400 Control Lyapunov-barrier function-based MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8431468 High-order CBFs: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9516971 Neural network lane-keeping paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8859955 Robust stability of NN-based LKS: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10644841 Matt Turner episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KLLOvbCjOkL0v8iXo84vt Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r41Lcpv4MtxnqfMn8ZFfnAqiK5rlfcPZ19NQhfeqaFI/edit?usp=sharing Multiple model switched adaptive control: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/72334/ Examples of systems with unknown input delays: (Connected platoons) https://ieeexplore-ieee-org/document/9530266 (Glucose control in diabetes) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85192198866 (Spacecraft control) https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84947032651 Min-max MPC for non-linear systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0947358009707034 PCA: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-analysis/principal-component-analysis-pca/ LPV gain-scheduling control with parameter reduction: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9830128 Safe MPC using constraint softening: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15373 Application to autonomous driving: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05933 Robust and Stochastic MPC: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367578816300098 Stochastic MPC review: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7740982Polynomial chaos in non-linear stochastic MPC: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6858851 Polynomial chaos overview: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6595094 Melanie Zeilinger: https://idsc.ethz.ch/the-institute/people/person-detail.html?persid=142737 Safe learning-based control talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBK1CNuU66c&t=572s Control meets learning seminar series: https://sites.google.com/view/control-meets-learning/home

  • S1 · E9
    Jul 1, 2025 · 56 min

    ECC Special (European Control Conference 2025)

    This episode is an ECC special, where I go on a trip to theEuropean control conference and bring you with me! Connect with me and with the podcast LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ X: https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/ References (Cool people to go look up!) ECC25 web page: https://ecc25.euca-ecc.org/ Guido Carnevale: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/guido.carnevale/en Luca Furieri: https://www.lucafurieri.it/ René Vidal: http://vision.jhu.edu/rvidal.html Lisa Li: https://flyingpeach.github.io/ Victor Magron: https://homepages.laas.fr/vmagron/ Giacomo Como: https://www.control.lth.se/personnel-old/giacomo-como/ Venanzio Cichella (safe autonomous agents): https://engineering.uiowa.edu/directory/venanzio-cichella Maryam Kamgarpour: https://people.epfl.ch/maryam.kamgarpour?lang=en Miroslav Kristic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/ Iasson Karafyllis: https://semfe.ntua.gr/en/faculty-members/item/16-karafyllis Daniel Nikovski: https://www.merl.com/people/nikovski Rosane Ushirobira: https://chercheurs.lille.inria.fr/~ushirobira/ Michelle Chong: https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/michelle-chong Timm Faulwasser: https://www.tuhh.de/ics/teampages/timm-faulwasser Seth Siriya: https://www.irt.uni-hannover.de/en/siriya Lorenzo Zino: https://lorenzozino90.wixsite.com/lzino François-Grégoire Bierwart (Koopman operators): https://researchportal.unamur.be/en/persons/fgbierwa Konstantin Zimenko (Finite-time stability analysis): https://dblp.org/pid/144/1527.html ABB: https://global.abb/ Massimiliano D’Angelo: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KrzPm2UAAAAJ&hl=it Yongduan Song (Neural network semi-plenary): https://accu.cqu.edu.cn/info/1112/3673.htm Niloufar Dabestani: https://www.trafficfluid.tuc.gr/en/people/phd-students/dabestani Antonella Ferrara: http://sisdin.unipv.it/labsisdin/people/ferant/ferant.php Maria Laura Delle Monache: https://ce.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/delle-monache Carlo Novara (MPC on quantum computers): https://www.polito.it/en/staff?p=003528 Daniel Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson Stefano Stramigioli: https://people.utwente.nl/s.stramigioli Frank Allgower (Event-based control): https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/press/experts/Prof.-Frank-Allgoewer/

  • S1 · E8
    Jun 1, 2025 · 1 hr 10 min

    Mathias Foo (River systems and biochemical control)

    In this episode I interview Dr Mathias Foo about his fascinating research on controlling river systems, implementing control systems using DNA, and gene network rewiring. Basically applying control to a bunch of different systems that you weren’t expecting. You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cWRFK20bWm64k7MCghI82eJ3-FjTt3hK0VEpQ-VE0Og/edit?usp=sharing Connect with me and with the podcast! LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ X: https://x.com/coffee_ctrl_pod Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/coffee-and-control.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coffee_and_control_podcast/ References Dr Mathias Foo: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/people/mathias_foo/ PhD PhD thesis: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=H5eLRq4AAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=H5eLRq4AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC Nadia Bedjaoui: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-bedjaoui-39862110/ Observers for leak detection in irrigation channels: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967066110001498 MPC using reverse engineering paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6114363 Maciejowski MPC book: https://www.amazon.com/Predictive-Control-Constraints-Jan-Maciejowski/dp/0201398230 Maciejowski inverse optimal control paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474667015366180 DNA strand displacement reactions Oishi and Klavins paper: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/Oishi2011linear.pdf DNA amplifiers: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1148532 DNA Logic gates: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1132493 DNA Detectors: https://www.dna.caltech.edu/Papers/Nucleation_DNA10.pdf PID control using DSD reactions: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8721529 Nuno Paulino: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FKL-xegAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DNA programmable gate arrays: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06484-9 Theoretical DNA feedback paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5354/10/4/466 DNA stability paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109820303010 SSV DNA robustness paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8619072 Gomez-Uribe covalent modification cycle paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18159939/ Quasi sliding-model controller paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7833853 Design based on covalent modification cycle: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13036-016-0036-1 PI-degradation controllers: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/dgb/077972431.pdf Gene regulatory networks Voit S-system paper: https://doi.org/10.1042/bse0450029 Modelling and control using S-system models: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8254368 Extended S-system model for restoring circadian cycles: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41540-022-00216-x Uri Alon gene regulation paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg2102 Network re-wiring paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acssynbio.8b00037 Reverse-engineering Hill-type models paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2024.0811 2009 Cell optimisation paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007120 Briat antithetic integral control paper: https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S2405-4712(16)00005-3 Professor Declan Bates: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/staff/dgb/ Steve Brunton: https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve Control bootcamp series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m Physics-informed machine learning series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFW2uSd3Uo&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNQ0BaKuBKY43k4xMo6NSbBa Probability and statistics series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQqniayndb4&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR3sNYvfgiKgcStwuPSts9V

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