Meet the Faculty Candidates (Fascinating research from the CDC poster session)

<p>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!</p><p> </p><p><strong>Correction:</strong> 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)</p><p><br></p><p>You can view the transcript for this episode at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tf4ORHPI5Thbs-nA9DQTSu87TKbYni9JJN2UXqn5kU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Tf4ORHPI5Thbs-nA9DQTSu87TKbYni9JJN2UXqn5kU/edit?usp=sharing</a></p><p>Follow the podcast on LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/</a></p><p>Or connect with me directly: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/</a></p><p> </p><p><strong>Links and references</strong></p><p>Amy Strong: <a href="https://bridgeman.pratt.duke.edu/people/amy-strong" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://bridgeman.pratt.duke.edu/people/amy-strong</a></p><p>Paper on data-driven invariance: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19231" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19231</a> </p><p> </p><p>Anju Anand: <a href="https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/anjuanand" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/anjuanand</a></p><p>Strategic quantisation: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10960399" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10960399</a></p><p>Incorporating privacy into the objective: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06321" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06321</a> </p><p> </p><p>Brian Block: <a href="https://mae.osu.edu/people/block.168" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://mae.osu.edu/people/block.168</a></p><p>Control of PDE traffic flow: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04823" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.04823</a> <br><br></p><p>Declan Jagt: <a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3729730" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://search.asu.edu/profile/3729730</a></p><p>Stability analysis of coupled multivariate PDEs: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14840" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14840</a> </p><p>Scalar quadratic PDEs: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10384073" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10384073</a></p><p>PIETOOLS software: <a href="https://control.asu.edu/pietools/pietools" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://control.asu.edu/pietools/pietools</a></p><p>Hamza El-Kebir: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-el-kebir/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamza-el-kebir/</a></p><p>Control authority degradation paper: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10354437" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10354437</a></p><p>Sensor and actuator degradation: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10521243" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.j