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Roberto Castello

EPFL SDSC
INN 218 (Bâtiment INN)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Applied Machine Learning and AI for the built environment and renewable energies, Building Physics, Statistical methods, Geographic Information Systems
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.
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Real-time estimates of Swiss electricity savings using streamed smart meter data

A. MariC. RemlingerR. CastelloM. GalusG. Obozinski  et al.

Applied Energy. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124537.

Explainable machine learning prediction of edema adverse events in patients treated with tepotinib

F. AmatoR. StrotmannR. CastelloR. BrunsV. Ghori  et al.

Clinical and translational science. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/cts.70010.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the energy performance of residential neighborhoods and their occupancy behavior

V. TodeschiK. JavanroodiN. MohajeriR. CastelloG. Mutani  et al.

Sustainable Cities And Society. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.scs.2022.103896.

Large-scale evaluation of the suitability of buildings for photovoltaic integration: Case study in Greater Geneva

M. ThebaultG. DesthieuxR. CastelloL. Berrah

Applied Energy. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119127.

Using Machine Learning to estimate the technical potential of shallow ground-source heat pumps with thermal interference

A. WalchR. CastelloN. MohajeriA. GudmundssonJ.-L. Scartezzini

2021. CISBAT 2021 - International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Sep 08-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012010.

Dimensionality reduction and clustering of time series for anomaly detection in a supermarket heating system

L. SalminaR. CastelloJ. StollJ.-L. Scartezzini

2021. CISBAT 2021 - International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep 08-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012027.

Quantification of the suitable rooftop area for solar panel installation from overhead imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks

R. CastelloA. WalchR. AttiasR. CadeiS. Jiang  et al.

2021. CISBAT 2021 - International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Sep 08-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012002.

Quantification of existing rooftop PV hourly generation capacity and validation against measurement data

A. WalchM. RuedisueliR. CastelloJ.-L. Scartezzini

2021. CISBAT 2021 - International Hybrid Conference on Carbon Neutral Cities - Energy Efficiency and Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep 08-10, 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2042/1/012011.

A machine learning-assisted building electricity consumption profiling for anomaly detection

D. AssoulineR. CastelloD. MaureeN. ZwahlenM. Guido  et al.

2020. International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2020), Virtual Conference, December 1-10, 2020.

Detecting solar rooftop photovoltaic panels in aerial images using neural networks: a transfer learning approach

S. Roquette

2020

Big data mining for the estimation of hourly rooftop photovoltaic potential and its uncertainty

A. WalchR. CastelloN. MohajeriJ.-L. Scartezzini

Applied Energy. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114404.

Spatio-Temporal Relationship between Land Cover and Land Surface Temperature in Urban Areas: A Case Study in Geneva and Paris

X. GeD. MaureeR. CastelloJ.-L. Scartezzini

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2020. DOI : 10.3390/ijgi9100593.

A fast machine learning model for large-scale estimation of annual solar irradiation on rooftops

A. WalchR. CastelloN. MohajeriJ.-L. Scartezzini

2020. SHC 2019/SWC 2019. ISES Solar World Congress, Santiago, Chile, November 3-7, 2019. DOI : 10.18086/swc.2019.45.12.

Wind profile prediction in an urban canyon: a machine learning approach

D. MaureeR. CastelloG. ManciniT. NuttaT. Zhang  et al.

2019. CISBAT 2019 | Climate Resilient Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 4-6, 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012047.

Deep learning in the built environment: automatic detection of rooftop solar panels using Convolutional Neural Networks

R. CastelloS. RoquetteM. EsguerraA. GuerraJ.-L. Scartezzini

2019. CISBAT 2019 | Climate Resilient Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4–6 September 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012034.

Geospatial analysis and optimization of the incoming and stored CO2 emissions within the EPFL campus

G. MoriS. CoccoloR. CastelloJ.-L. Scartezzini

2019. CISBAT 2019 | Climate Resilient Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era, Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-6 September 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/1343/1/012118.

Topology classification with deep learning to improve real-time event selection at the LHC

T. Q. NguyenD. WeitekampD. AndersonR. CastelloO. Cerri  et al.

Computing and Software for Big Science. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s41781-019-0028-1.

Spatio-temporal modelling and uncertainty estimation of hourly global solar irradiance using Extreme Learning Machines

A. WalchR. CastelloN. MohajeriF. GuignardM. Kanevski  et al.

2019. 10 th International Conference on Applied Energy ( ICAE2018), Hong Kong , China, August 22- 25, 2018. p. 6378 - 6383. DOI : 10.1016/j.egypro.2019.01.219.

From a Vegetation Index to a Sustainable Development Goal Indicator: Forest Trend Monitoring Using Three Decades of Earth Observations across Switzerland

E. HoneckR. CastelloB. ChatenouxJ.-P. RichardA. Lehmann  et al.

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2018. DOI : 10.3390/ijgi7120455.