This episode features an interview with Florian Dörfler, who is an Associate Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.  We discuss several topics, including his personal research trajectory, the influence of machine learning on control, future challenges in control theory, among others. Check out Florian's website here: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~floriand/ Outline 00:00 - Intro  01:03 - Personal research trajectory 05:57 - Influence of machine learning on control 07:52 - Why doing research in control? 09:51 - What would you change in control?  11:36 - Where is the field heading? 14:20 - Favourite theorem in control theory 16:20 - Vision: what would you like to achieve? 17:03 - Influential figures 19:17 - Sociology and control 21:23 - What would you do if you were a student today? Episode links Florian's website: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~floriand/ Gerschgorin theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershgorin_circle_theorem Synchronization paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1212134110 Hamming - "A stroke of genius": https://www.mccurley.org/advice/hamming_advice.html  Podcast info Podcast website: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/incontrol/id1624068002 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7dZvt77XNtHxyrFqM8YTwf RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1632769.rss Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl83hwBSVRLYj2NWS08P9bg/featured Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InControl-podcast-114303337936834 Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/incontrol_podcast/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/incontrolpodcast/ Acknowledgments and sponsors This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation», which you can check here: https://nccr-automation.ch/nccr-automation The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to Arian Bastani, Benjamin Sawicki, Elise Cahard, Florian Dorfler, Frederik Banis, John Lygeros, ETH studio (Philipp Zumbrunnen), and mirrorlake studio (Roman Frischknecht). The support of the Swiss National Science Foundation is also gratefully acknowledged.  Music was composed by A New Element. Support the show