Coffee and Control

Lucy Hodgins
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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. New episodes released monthly

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

    hace 11 h

    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

    30 min
  2. Journal Clubs (Creating reading groups that people want to be part of)

    1 may ·  Contenido extra

    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

    34 min
  3. Brian Douglas (Control Engineering in Industry)

    1 abr

    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

    59 min
  4. Gioele Zardini (Engineering Trade-offs and Co-design)

    1 mar

    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_hFazBGxUhttps://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/doyleCDC 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

    1 h 10 min
  5. Barbara Franci (Game Theory and Resource Allocation)

    1 feb

    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

    55 min
  6. Meet the Faculty Candidates (Fascinating research from the CDC poster session)

    9 ene ·  Contenido extra

    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

    26 min
  7. CDC special (Conference of Decision and Control 2025)

    1 ene

    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/tylerhanksNextCom: 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)

    51 min
  8. IEEE NextCom (Fostering Community Within Controls Research)

    27/12/2025 ·  Contenido extra

    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

    18 min
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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. New episodes released monthly

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    Lucy Hodgins
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    2024 - 2026
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