Keyan Miao (Interfacing Control with Neural ODEs)

<p>In 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 optimise neural ODEs, as well as their use for both controller and observer design. And in case that wasn’t already enough we also touch on dissipativity, Koopman operators, and reinforcement learning!</p><p> </p><p>You can find the transcript for this episode at: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iI0swQSnNEqgGQgf7og8udRV3IBCXbbfEkLFlolGxEU/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iI0swQSnNEqgGQgf7og8udRV3IBCXbbfEkLFlolGxEU/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>Join the live recording on 20th October 2026!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9X66_Wfzc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9X66_Wfzc</a></p><p>( 9:30 PDT, 12:30 ET, 16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST)</p><p><br></p><p><strong>References</strong></p><p>Keyan Miao: <a href="https://kymiao.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://kymiao.github.io/</a></p><p>Richard Vinter: <a href="https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.vinter" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.vinter</a></p><p> QianXiao Li from NUS and Wei-Nan Er from Princeton: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jmlr.org%2Fpapers%2Fvolume18%2F17-653%2F17-653.pdf&data=05%7C02%7CL.Hodgins%40soton.ac.uk%7Ceffa94a12d09446b9aac08dedac7f44e%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C639188749665599257%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=i7GMI92aFZ%2Bns5pIh%2BdNRcceZv5qQH9csXgyoS%2BL988%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-653/17-653.pdf</a></p><p><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs40687-018-0172-y&da