Coffee and Control
Coffee and Control
Podcast Description
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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The podcast focuses on a range of advanced topics within control theory, including geometric control, fractional order systems, aircraft control, and rehabilitation applications. Episodes dive into specific areas such as Boolean control using state-space approaches, anti-windup techniques in aircraft systems, and the application of iterative learning control in stroke rehabilitation.

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
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
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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/

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