Date & Time:

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
12:00-13:00

Location:

M2-Museum Hall

Panelists/Speakers:

Timm Faulwasser (Hamburg University of Technology)
Victor Magron (CNRS, LAAS)
Giuseppe Belgioioso (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Amritam Das (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Michelle Chong (TU Eindhoven)

Organizers:

Lucy Hodgins (University of Southampton), Cathy Zhang (Harvard University), M. Umar B. Niazi (MIT), Philip E. Paré (Purdue University), Anastasia Bizyaeva (Cornell University), Brooks Butler (University of California, Irvine), Venkatraman Renganathan (Cranfield University), Armin Lederer (ETH Zurich), Abhishek Dhyani (TU Delft)

Abstract:

The lunch session aims to foster interaction, collaboration, and community -building among students, early-career researchers, and young professionals at the ECC2025. This session will feature a control-themed group activity that encourages participants to work together in small teams, engaging in exercises and discussions that promote teamwork and problem-solving. Through the group activity, followed by a brief workshop, the session aims to promote open-source practices to improve reproducibility and transparency in control research. The attendees will also learn about the ongoing initiatives by the NextCom committee aimed at supporting the professional development of the control community members. Overall, the session is intended to create a relaxed and welcoming environment for networking and idea sharing among peers and mentors alike.

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Date & Time:

Wednesday, June 25, 2025
12:00-13:00

Location:

M2-Library Hall

Panelists/Speakers:

Naira Hovakimyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Dimos Dimarogonas (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Organizer:

Fabio Marques dos Santos

Abstract:

The European Research Council (ERC) is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. Its mission is to support creative researchers of any nationality and age, funding investigator-driven frontier research across all fields and encouraging the highest quality research in Europe, based on scientific excellence. In this panel discussion, a scientific officer from the ERC will present the main opportunities for researchers, followed by insights shared by an ERC grantee and a former panel member who will discuss their personal experience. The session will conclude with a Q&A segment, allowing the audience to engage directly with the speakers.

Date & Time:

Thursday, June 26, 2025
12:00-13:00

Location:

M2-Museum Hall

Panelists/speakers:

Emmanouil Panousis (HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A)
Vedrana Spudic (ABB Process Industries)
Oliver Koening (AVL, Battery Testing Solutions)
Gilberto Pin (Electrolux)

Organizers:

Jonas Larsson
George Papafotiou.

Abstract:

The aim is to bring the European control community into contact with a wider range of industries, stimulating discussions about new research directions and thus opening new opportunities for fruitful collaborations.
More specifically, for the content of the Panel discussion, we would like to receive the input from the industrial panelists regarding your experiences and impressions on the use of data-driven techniques in industry. Examples of questions to discuss: Are the data driven techniques visible in your roadmaps? Do you believe that there is a future for them? Is it only about preemptive maintenance and what would be additional value in your industry? What do you expect that the role of physical models will be in the future, especially when it comes to safety and protection functionality?

Date & Time:

Thursday, June 26, 2025
12:00-13:00

Location:

M2-Library Hall

Organizers:

Craig Buhr (MathWorks), Emmanouil Tzorakoleftherakis (MathWorks)

Abstract:

Educators often face the challenge of limited time for creating comprehensive curricula while striving to help students grasp complex control concepts and bridging the gap between theory and practice. This session aims to address these issues by introducing teaching and learning resources that educators can utilize to save time and enhance their control classes, while providing a more engaging and interactive learning experience for students. We will highlight ready-to-use control courseware developed by leading universities, virtual labs, educational videos, and self-paced tutorials. Additionally, the session will showcase how to prepare students with industry-relevant skills through hands-on experiments using the low-cost balancing bi-copter hardware. We’ll demonstrate a workflow including system identification, control design, and deployment to hardware. We’ll discuss how educators can use such hardware to introduce fundamental control topics such as PID control, as well as more advanced topics like model predictive control.

Date & Time:

Friday, June 27, 2025
12:00-13:00

Location:

M2-Library Hall

Panelists/Speakers

Zoe Doulgeri, Maria Laura Delle Monache,Elena Valcher, Christophe Prieur

Organizers:

Antonella Ferrara

Abstract:

This event is meant to provide a moment for women researchers in control attending ECC 2025 to share their insights, experiences, and visions for the future of the field.