Keyan Miao (Interfacing Control with Neural ODEs)

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! You can find the transcript for this episode at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iI0swQSnNEqgGQgf7og8udRV3IBCXbbfEkLFlolGxEU/edit?usp=sharingFollow the podcast on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coffee-and-control-podcast/Or connect with me directly: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-hodgins-733a30175/ Join the live recording on 20th October 2026!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S9X66_Wfzc( 9:30 PDT, 12:30 ET, 16:30 UTC, 17:30 BST, 18:30 CEST)ReferencesKeyan Miao: https://kymiao.github.io/Richard Vinter: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/r.vinter QianXiao Li from NUS and Wei-Nan Er from Princeton: https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-653/17-653.pdfhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40687-018-0172-yhttps://ems.press/journals/jems/articles/5404458 Book on control theory/ philosophy: https://apac.ee.kntu.ac.ir/publications/books/control-systems-a-historical-and-philosophical-perspective/Control theory/ philosophy article: https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/control-theory-philosophical-lens-languageNCCR automation fellowship: https://nccr-automation.ch/research-fellowshipAndreas Krause: https://las.inf.ethz.ch/krausea Steve Brunton ResNet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1UsKanMatM&amp;t=911sOriginal neural ODE paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2018/file/69386f6bb1dfed68692a24c8686939b9-Paper.pdfSpeeding up Neural ODE training and inference: <a href="https: