Gioele Zardini (Engineering Trade-offs and Co-design)

<p>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!</p><p> </p><p>Find the transcript at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XPZr9jP4Lphskkw-SiM8h-x1kp7LROqZ243S6zA7EsY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XPZr9jP4Lphskkw-SiM8h-x1kp7LROqZ243S6zA7EsY/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>References</strong></p><p>Gioele Zardini: <a href="https://gioele.science/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://zardini.mit.edu/</a></p><p>PhD thesis: <a href="https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/d7c08dd5-bf96-4c1f-a744-5e751f0f44a5" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/entities/publication/d7c08dd5-bf96-4c1f-a744-5e751f0f44a5</a></p><p>PhDs in control interview: <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555200" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555200</a></p><p>Emilio Frazzoli: <a href="https://idsc.ethz.ch/research-frazzoli/people/person-detail.frazzoli.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://idsc.ethz.ch/research-frazzoli/people/person-detail.frazzoli.html</a></p><p>Andrea Cenci: <a href="https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/andrea-censi" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://nccr-automation.ch/about/people/andrea-censi</a></p><p>Marco Pavone: <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/marco-pavone" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://profiles.stanford.edu/marco-pavone</a></p><p>NuTonomy: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuTonomy" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuTonomy</a>(current site: <a href="https://motional.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://motional.com/</a>)</p><p>Brad Nelson: <a href="https://msrl.ethz.ch/the-lab/team/Brad_Nelson.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://msrl.ethz.ch/the-lab/team/Brad_Nelson.html</a></p><p>David Sacramuza: <a href="https://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/people_scaramuzza.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/people_scaramuzza.html</a></p><p>Yujun Huang: <a href="https://zardini.mit.edu/people/yujun-huang/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://zardini.mit.edu/people/yujun-huang/</a></p><p>Uncertainty in co-design paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02766" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.02766</a> </p><p> </p><p>Background refs on category theory:</p><p>David Spivak: <a href="https://dspivak.net/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://dspivak.net/</a><br>Brendan Fong: <a href="http://brendanfong.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">http://brendanfong.com/</a> </p><p>Gioele&#39;s work in progress book: <a href="https://storage.zuper.ai/sync/ACT4E/ACT4E/alphubel-prod/build/last/build-public/ACT4E-public.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://storage.zuper.ai/sync/ACT4E/ACT4E/alphubel-prod/build/last/build-public/ACT4E-public.pdf</a></p><p>YouTube talk: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAz6fEPa2o" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmAz