Alberto Padoan
@drapadoan.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor at UBC | inControl podcast host
www.albertopadoan.com | www.incontrolpodcast.com
www.albertopadoan.com | www.incontrolpodcast.com
Reposted by Alberto Padoan
What is feedback, really? In this episode, we retrace its prehistory, revisit Black’s invention of the negative-feedback amplifier, and look at why feedback keeps reappearing in biology, strategy, behaviour shaping machines, organisms, and decisions.
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What is feedback, really? In this episode, we retrace its prehistory, revisit Black’s invention of the negative-feedback amplifier, and look at why feedback keeps reappearing in biology, strategy, behaviour shaping machines, organisms, and decisions.
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
Thanks: @nccr-automation.bsky.social
We invoke “Lyapunov stability” so often — but who was the man behind it? 🤔 This episode retraces his life, his 1892 thesis, and a legacy that still defines control theory. 🌀
🎙️ New episode! We travel back to 19th-century Russia to meet Lyapunov, the mathematician who gave science the language of stability. From his friendship with Chebyshev to a life marked by devotion and tragedy, his 1892 thesis still shapes how we understand dynamics, uncertainty, and control today.
October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We invoke “Lyapunov stability” so often — but who was the man behind it? 🤔 This episode retraces his life, his 1892 thesis, and a legacy that still defines control theory. 🌀
🚦 New episode with traffic control legend Markos Papageorgiou (Technical University of Crete). Traffic control is where every control challenge meets reality: scale, nonlinear behaviors, humans in the loop, CO₂ emissions, with millions of lives touched daily. Not to be missed!
🚦 New episode! Legendary traffic-control pioneer Markos Papageorgiou (Technical University of Crete) joins us to discuss how intelligent control algorithms help cut congestion, reduce CO₂ emissions, and keep cities moving for millions every day! 😮
September 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
🚦 New episode with traffic control legend Markos Papageorgiou (Technical University of Crete). Traffic control is where every control challenge meets reality: scale, nonlinear behaviors, humans in the loop, CO₂ emissions, with millions of lives touched daily. Not to be missed!
🎙️ New episode! Cosimo takes us inside the fascinating world of soft robotics 🤖🐙 Compliance over rigidity, shape as intelligence, and why underactuation may actually be a feature — unmissable! 😄
🎙️ New episode! Cosimo Della Santina takes us inside soft robotics — a young, daring field where compliance replaces rigidity, intelligence emerges from shape, and underactuation is a feature, not a flaw. A rare front-row seat to a discipline with more questions than answers. 🚀🧠
August 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🎙️ New episode! Cosimo takes us inside the fascinating world of soft robotics 🤖🐙 Compliance over rigidity, shape as intelligence, and why underactuation may actually be a feature — unmissable! 😄
Loved putting this one together. A whirlwind tour through 60+ years of control theory — from Kalman to complex systems. If you care about why controllability and observability matter, give it a listen 🚀🎧
Link: www.incontrolpodcast.com
Link: www.incontrolpodcast.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Loved putting this one together. A whirlwind tour through 60+ years of control theory — from Kalman to complex systems. If you care about why controllability and observability matter, give it a listen 🚀🎧
Link: www.incontrolpodcast.com
Link: www.incontrolpodcast.com
Another giant honoring us with his presence! 🙏🏼 An episode packed with insight and hilarious anecdotes — from feedback to learning, with a few unexpected detours along the way. Don’t miss this one! 🎧👇
🎙️ New episode! Mathukumalli Vidyasagar walks us through five decades of asking (and answering) the right questions in control, learning, and applied math — from feedback systems to statistical learning, HMMs, compressed sensing, and non-convex optimization. Unmissable! 🚀🧠
June 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Another giant honoring us with his presence! 🙏🏼 An episode packed with insight and hilarious anecdotes — from feedback to learning, with a few unexpected detours along the way. Don’t miss this one! 🎧👇
Another exciting inControl podcast episode, Anders Rantzer (Lund University) shares insights from a career at the crossroads of Russian and Western control traditions. Robustness, scalability, duality, and some timeless theorems along the way!
🎙️ New episode! Anders Rantzer (@lunduniversity) walks us through robust control, IQCs, the KYP lemma, nonlinear and hybrid systems, scalability and positivity, and dual (adaptive) control. A journey shaped by the dialogue between Western and Russian control traditions — don’t miss it! 🧠🚀
May 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Another exciting inControl podcast episode, Anders Rantzer (Lund University) shares insights from a career at the crossroads of Russian and Western control traditions. Robustness, scalability, duality, and some timeless theorems along the way!
Reposted by Alberto Padoan
New episode! 🚀Miroslav Krstić (@KrsticUCSD) joins us to retrace a landmark journey — from nonlinear adaptive control to backstepping for PDEs, delay compensation via predictors, extremum seeking, safety and neural operators for PDE control. A must for every control enthusiast!
April 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
New episode! 🚀Miroslav Krstić (@KrsticUCSD) joins us to retrace a landmark journey — from nonlinear adaptive control to backstepping for PDEs, delay compensation via predictors, extremum seeking, safety and neural operators for PDE control. A must for every control enthusiast!
Reposted by Alberto Padoan
🎙️ New episode! Manfred Morari traces his journey from chemical process control to IMC, robust and predictive control, MPC, and lessons from a career spanning ETH Zürich, Caltech & University of Pennsylvania. From theory to real-world impact, this episode is a must-listen for control enthusiasts! 🚀🎧
February 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🎙️ New episode! Manfred Morari traces his journey from chemical process control to IMC, robust and predictive control, MPC, and lessons from a career spanning ETH Zürich, Caltech & University of Pennsylvania. From theory to real-world impact, this episode is a must-listen for control enthusiasts! 🚀🎧
New year, new inControl podcast episode! 😁 Today, we celebrate another giant: Richard Bellman, the father of dynamic programming. 🔄 🚀🧠 In this episode, I discuss his incredible journey—from Brooklyn to Princeton, Los Alamos, RAND, and Stanford—and his contributions to control theory! 🚀
New episode! 🎙️ Today, we dive into Richard Bellman’s legacy as the father of dynamic programming. 🧠 From his early life in Brooklyn to Princeton, Los Alamos, RAND, and Stanford, we explore his monumental contributions to control theory, which set the stage for modern AI breakthroughs! 🚀
January 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
New year, new inControl podcast episode! 😁 Today, we celebrate another giant: Richard Bellman, the father of dynamic programming. 🔄 🚀🧠 In this episode, I discuss his incredible journey—from Brooklyn to Princeton, Los Alamos, RAND, and Stanford—and his contributions to control theory! 🚀