In this episode I had the pleasure of talking to the fantastic Francesca Boem about her work on monitoring networked systems, approaches to detecting faults and cyber attacks, as well as her new start-up helping to ensure the security of wireless health-tech devices!

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References

Francesca Boem: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/65682-francesca-boem

PhD thesis: https://www.openstarts.units.it/entities/publication/c9e28dd2-a9f3-4deb-bfb9-886a8f5d1661/details

Thomas Parisini: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/t.parisini

Distributed fault detection paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6580380

Detectability of cyber attacks: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8264562

Cyber attack detection for microgrids: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9054955

Detecting covert cyber attacks: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9104026

Detecting replay attacks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.00737

Fault-tolerant control/ active fault diagnosis: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8700304

CONTROL 2026 episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2MTAxQo4PlTC0zo7OcYRB4

BLE vulnerabilities paper: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212293/1/ISCAS_2025_V4.pdf

 GiancarloFerrari Tricate: https://people.epfl.ch/giancarlo.ferraritrecate

KIOS centre: https://www.kios.ucy.ac.cy/