I'm an electrical engineer, I don't know much about biology. Electrical is well-suited to modeling with ordinary differential equations. By making design decis

I'm an electrical engineer, I don't know much about biology. Electrical is well-suited to modeling with ordinary differential equations. By making design decisions such that linear time-invariance is a valid assumption, we unlock really simple, powerful, and broadly applicable techniques for modeling, measurement, and control design. Most biology isn't designed, which is probably why those papers had to jump right to much more advanced and specific techniques for modeling and control. With no useful on-ramp for most biologists, modeling and control will have to be a deliberate collaboration between two specialized disciplines.