Collaborations

National and international research collaborations of BAEDA Lab

  • Collaborations on decision support systems for building energy management

Prof. Francesco Causone, Ph.D.

Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; 

Joint research: Urban building energy modeling in smart city context

Joint publications: Capozzoli et al., 2015

Prof. Tania Cerquitelli, Ph.D.

Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; 

Joint research: Advanced energy benchmarking in buildings

Joint publications: Di Corso et al., 2017Attanasio et al., 2019Cerquitelli et al., 2019Cerquitelli et al., 2020

Prof. Gianfranco Chicco, Ph.D.

Department of Energy “Galileo Ferraris” (DENERG),Responsible of GUSEE group, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy; 

Joint research: Data analytics for electrical load management in buildings

Joint publicationsCapozzoli et al., 2018

Dr. Cheng Fan, Ph.D.

Department of Construction Management and Real Estate, College of Civil and Transportation Engineering,Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China;

Joint research: Anomaly detection and diagnosis in buildings, transfer learning

Joint publications: Fan et al., 2021; Chiosa et al., 2022

Dr. Marco Pritoni, Ph.D.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building technology & urban systems division, Berkeley, USA

Joint research: Portable applications for energy information systems in buildings

Joint publications: Chiosa et al., 2024

Dr. John Richard Littlewood, Ph.D.

Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff School of Art & Design, Ecological Built Environment group, Cardiff, UK;

Joint research: Sustainable and resilient buildings at different scales

Prof. Vincenzo Moscato, Ph.D.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI),Responsible of PICUS Lab, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy; 

Joint research: Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for building applications

Joint publications: Galli et al., 2022

Dr. Stefano Pizzuti, Ph.D.

ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Responsible of Smart Cities & Communities (DTE-SEN-SCC) lab, Rome, Italy

Joint research: Penetration of data analytics technologies in smart cities and communities

Joint publications: Lauro et al., 2014; Lauro et al., 2013

Arch. Sabrina Romano

ENEA Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Smart Cities & Communities (DTE-SEN-SCC) lab, Rome, Italy

Joint research: Occupant behaviour impact and energy management in clusters of residential buildings

Prof. Antonio Rosato, Ph.D.

University of Campania Luigi VanvitelliDepartment of Architecture and Industrial Design, Aversa, Italy

Joint research: Fault detection and diagnosis in HVAC systems

Joint publications: Rosato et al., 2022(a); Rosato et al., 2022(b); Rosato et al., 2023

Prof. Linda Xiao, Ph.D.

Department of Building Services EngineeringThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

Joint research: Characterization and modeling of the energy dynamics of large buildings with complex energy systems 

Joint publicationsPiscitelli et al., 2020

Dr. Subbu Sethuvenkatraman, Ph.D.

Digital building technologies, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

Joint research: Semantic metadata schema for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in building systems

Dr. Cristian Pozza, Ph.D.

Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

Joint research: Development of a framework including Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI)

Dr. Daniele Antonucci, Ph.D.

Institute for Renewable Energy, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy

Joint research: Implementation of Large Language Models (LLMs) for energy information systems

  • Collaborations on Automated System Optimization (ASO) solutions in buildings

Prof. Paul Cooper, Ph.D.

The Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)University of Wollongong Australia, Wollongong, Australia

Joint research: Predictive control strategies for energy systems

Joint publications: Serale et al., 2018(a)Fiorentini et al., 2019

Prof. Donal Finn, Ph.D.

School of Mechanical and Materials EngineeringUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Joint research: Architectures for coordinated energy management of buildings

Joint publications: Pinto et al. 2022(b)

Prof. Massimo Fiorentini, Ph.D.

Aarhus UniversityDepartment of Civil and Architectural Engineering - Building Science, Aarhus, Denmark; 

Joint research: Predictive control strategies for energy systems and building envelope components 

Joint publicationsSerale et al., 2018(a)Serale et al., 2018(b)Fiorentini et al., 2019; Brandi et al., 2022

Dr. Tianzhen Hong, Ph.D.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building technology & urban systems division, Responsible of urban system group, Berkeley, USA

Joint research: Scalability of adaptive and predictive control strategies in HVAC systems, transfer learning

Joint publications: Pinto et al. 2022(a); Li et al. 2022; Pinto et al., 2022(c); Coraci et al., 2023; Coraci et al., 2024

Prof. Arno Schlueter, Ph.D.

ETH ZurichArchitecture and Building Systems at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), Zurich, Switzerland

Joint research: Get it real or die trying: in-field implementation of advanced controls, transfer learning

Joint publicationsSilvestri et al. 2024; Silvestri et al. 2023

Dr. Anjukan Kathirgamanathan, Ph.D.

UCD Energy Institute, O'Brien Centre for ScienceUniversity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Joint research: Architectures for coordinated energy management of buildings

Joint publicationsPinto et al. 2022(b)

Prof. Eleni Mangina, Ph.D.

University College Dublin, School of Computer Science, Dublin, Ireland

Joint research: Architectures for coordinated energy management of buildings

Joint publicationsPinto et al. 2022(b)

Prof. Zoltan Nagy, Ph.D.

Responsible of Intelligent Environments LaboratoryUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA 

Joint research: Simulation of advanced control strategies in district of buildings

Joint publications: Pinto et al. 2021

Dr. Zhe Wang, Ph.D.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Building technology & urban systems division, Berkeley, USA

Joint research: Scalability of adaptive and predictive control strategies, Transfer learning

Joint publicationsPinto et al. 2022(a)