Roberto Castello
Data Scientist
EPFL SDSC
INN 218 (Bâtiment INN)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 87 94
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Web site: Web site: https://www.datascience.ch
Fields of expertise
Applied Machine Learning and Big Data analytics for the built environment and renewable energy, Urban and building physics simulation, Statistical methods, Geographic Information System
Biography
Roberto holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of Torino, Italy. He worked as a Research Fellow for the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and later at the CERN Experimental Physics division as a Senior Research Fellow and Data Scientist. In 2018, he joined the EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (LESO-PB) as a Senior Scientist and group leader to work on data mining and Machine Learning for the built environment and renewable energy. He has started and led multiple collaborations with academic and industrial partners in the energy domain.Roberto joined the EPFL-ETHZ Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) in September 2021 as a Principal Data Scientist with the mission of accompanying industries, the public sector, and NGOs through their data science journey.
Publications
Other publications
Selected publications
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Search for new physics in events with two low momentum opposite-sign leptons and missing transverse energy at 13 TeV, Physics Letters B, 2018
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Search for narrow resonances in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV and combination with 8 TeV data, Physics Letters B, 2017
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Search for neutral resonances decaying into a Z boson and a pair of b jets or tau leptons, Physics Letters B, 2016
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Alignment of the CMS tracker with LHC and cosmic ray data, Journal of Instrumentation, 2014
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Measurement of the production cross sections for a Z boson and one or more b jets in pp collisions at 7 TeV, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC, Physics Letters B, 2012 - Science Breakthrough of the Year 2012
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Performance of CMS muon reconstruction in pp collision events, Journal of Instrumentation, 2012
- R. Castello and CMS collaborators, Alignment of the CMS Silicon Tracker during Commissioning with Cosmic Rays, Journal of Instrumentation, 2010 (PhD thesis work)
Teaching & PhD
Supervised students
- Mr Lorenzo Donadio (EPFL and Eindhoven University of Technology), Temporal hierarchical forecasting of energy consumption in office buildings
- Mr Romain Sibuet (HES-SO Geneva), Optimization of a hybrid solar-geothermal energy system potential at building scale
- Ms Xu Ge (Technical University of Denmark - DTU), Spatio-temporal relationship between land cover and Land Surface Temperature in urban areas
- Ms Dan Chai (EPFL), Automatic detection of rooftop solar installations in the built environment and its validation on the EPFL campus
- Mr Giovanni Mori (University of Bolzano), Geospatial analysis and optimization of the incoming and stored CO2 emissions within the EPFL campus