Coffee and Control
by Lucy Hodgins
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About this podcast
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
Episodes
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- Hamed Rahimi Nohooji (Human-Robot Interaction and Soft Robotics) · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 12In this episode I had a wonderful time talking with Dr Hamed Rahimi Nohooji and all about control of robotics! We discussed dealing with constraints using barrier Lyapunov…
- Keyan Miao (Interfacing Control with Neural ODEs) · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 12In 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…
- IFAC World Congress Special · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 11In 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…
- Francesca Boem (Distributed Monitoring and Attack Detection) · 60 minIn 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…
- CONTROL 2026 (ACE Network/ UKACC Conference Special) · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 9In 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…
- Carmen Amo Alonso: Part 2 (AI Architectures and the Dynamics of Intelligence) · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 8In 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…
- Carmen Amo Alonso: Part 1 (Distributed and Localized Model Predictive Control) · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 7In 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…
- Journal Clubs (Creating reading groups that people want to be part of) · 34 min · Season 2In 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!…
- Brian Douglas (Control Engineering in Industry) · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 6In 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…
- Gioele Zardini (Engineering Trade-offs and Co-design) · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 5In 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…
- Barbara Franci (Game Theory and Resource Allocation) · 55 min · Season 2 Episode 3In 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…
- Meet the Faculty Candidates (Fascinating research from the CDC poster session) · 26 min · Season 2In 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…
- CDC special (Conference of Decision and Control 2025) · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 3In 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…
- IEEE NextCom (Fostering Community Within Controls Research) · 18 min · Season 2In 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…
- Sophie Schirmer (Quantum Control 2: Controllability and Robustness) · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 2This month I got to interview Sophie Schirmer about herfascinating work on quantum control, including notions such as controllability and realisability, different types of…
- Carrie Weidner (Quantum Control 1: Optimisation and Application) · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 1In 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…
- Andy Lawrence (EPSRC grant funding) · 53 min · Season 1In 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…
- Alberto Padoan: Part 2 (Distances between behaviours and inControl podcast) · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 12This 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…
- Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction) · 1 h 0 minIn 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…
- Ying Shuai Quan (Model Predictive Control and Autonomous Driving) · 1 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 10In 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…
