Coffee and Control

In this episode I got to chat with the incredibly wonderful Dr Keyan Miao about the fascinating work she’s done on neural ODEs. We discuss applying control theoretic tools to optimise neural ODEs, as well as their use for both controller and observer design. And in case that wasn’t already enough we also touch on dissipativity, Koopman operators, and reinforcement learning!

You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iI0swQSnNEqgGQgf7og8udRV3IBCXbbfEkLFlolGxEU/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/

Join the live recording on 20th October 2026!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9X66_Wfzc

( 9:30 PDT, 12:30 ET, 16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST)

References

Keyan Miao: https://kymiao.github.io/

Richard Vinter: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.vinter

 QianXiao Li from NUS and Wei-Nan Er from Princeton: https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-653/17-653.pdf

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40687-018-0172-y

https://ems.press/journals/jems/articles/5404458

Book on control theory/ philosophy: https://apac.ee.kntu.ac.ir/publications/books/control-systems-a-historical-and-philosophical-perspective/

Control theory/ philosophy article: https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/control-theory-philosophical-lens-language

NCCR automation fellowship: https://nccr-automation.ch/research-fellowship

Andreas Krause: https://las.inf.ethz.ch/krausea

Steve Brunton ResNet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1UsKanMatM&t=911s

Original neural ODE paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2018/file/69386f6bb1dfed68692a24c8686939b9-Paper.pdf

Speeding up Neural ODE training and inference: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/miao24a.html

Neural ODE review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950550X25000263

Review of Neural ODEs in biomedical engineering: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-bioeng-110824-124907

Neural ODEs for observer design paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.00866

Non-linear observer review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1367578821000948

Neural ODEs for control design papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17139

Survey on CBFs: https://coogan.ece.gatech.edu/papers/pdf/amesecc19.pdf

Koopman operator paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.07294

Combining neural ODEs with RL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231225007131

Neural ODE dissipativity paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109826003043

Papers on Neural Network Verification: HuanZhang (UIUC)

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2018/file/d04863f100d59b3eb688a11f95b0ae60-Paper.pdf

https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2021/file/fac7fead96dafceaf80c1daffeae82a4-Paper.pdf

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.26577

Papers on Direct NN parameterization: Ian Manchester (USyd)and Patricia Pauli (Eindhoven)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9319198

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22258

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v202/wang23v.html

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9867842

Ricky Chen: https://rtqichen.github.io/

Flow matching paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.02747

Antonis Papachristoudolou: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/antonis-papachristodoulou

Carmen Amo Alonso episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/393QBgVgsQwgh4wKj1bcLy

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

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: [email protected]

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/

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

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/[email protected]

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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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