In this episode I have the pleasure of attending the CONTROL2026 conference, and bring you along with me! This conference was the largest gatheringof control engineers in the UK recent years, co-organized by the ACE network and UK Automatic Control Council (UKACC). Join me as I explore the ACE network and some of the fabulous control engineering research taking place across theUK!
Join the ACE network!: https://ukcontrol.org/join-ace
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References
Control 2026: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/
Conference proceedings: https://control2026.ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Control-2026-Proceedings-Booklet.pdf
ACE network: https://ukcontrol.org/
UKACC: https://ukacc.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/
IFAC: https://www.ifac-control.org/
Pramod Khargonekar: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/khargonekar/
Slides from his talk: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/yaf5rk
Norbert Weiner: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Norbert-Wiener
Automony vs automation: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01004-z
InControl episode: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/1632769/episodes/11513053-ep6-norbert-wiener-and-cybernetics
Macy Conference proceedings: http://cybernetic-bookshelf.org:8083/book/2636Dartmouth conference: https://opendigitalai.org/en/the-dartmouth-conference-1956-the-big-bang-of-ai/
John McCarthy: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-McCarthy
Daniel Coca: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/danielcoca.html
EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/
Interview with Andy Lawrence: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6BvPXw3YyoqdsvbQ573OF1
William Heath: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/staff/scse/william-heath-680178/en
Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi
Antonis Papachristodoulou: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/antonis-papachristodoulou
Stephen Duncan: https://www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-stephen-duncan/
Francesca Boem: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/f.boem
EDI survey: https://coffeecontrollinks.short.gy/ahijky
Mentorship scheme sign-up form: https://ukcontrol.org/ace-network-mentor-scheme
ACE position paper: https://ukcontrol.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ACE-Position-Paper.pdf
Network + survey: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=yRJQnBa2wkSpF2aBT74-hyrBNzE3vqFAgmzn8RVGrRVUM1pNMEZFREExUTBJQ1dRUkJTNFRGNEJPVi4u&route=shorturl
Claude shutdown: https://www.ithinkdiff.com/claude-fable-5-disabled-us-government/
Brian Douglas podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yUF9sf0cM2K9AeoQzoHal
Chao Gu: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chao-gu-609073220/
Petri nets: http://www.petri-net.de/
AEGEAN: https://en.about.aegeanair.com/company/fleet/
Liam Hallinan: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LmZyKIIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Salma Iraky: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salmassabry/
TERRA github: https://github.com/sssabry/tera
Anton Selivanov: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anton-Selivanov
Allan Nascimento (Multi-horizon MPC author): https://ieeexplore-ieee-org.soton.idm.oclc.org/author/867072138905292
Miroslav Krstic: https://flyingv.ucsd.edu/
Neural operators: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08481
Mohammad Adballah: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/meme/staff/phd/mohammad-abdallah/
Luke Rickard: https://www.lukerickard.co.uk/
Will Rohde: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wfmrohde/
Dan Hobson: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xp9hs/mr-daniel-hobson
Anthony Rossiter: https://ieeecss.org/contact/anthony-rossiter
Control101 toolbox: https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/130439-control-101-toolbox
