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ENVIRONMENTAL INTELLIGENCE
for Global Change
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ABOUT US
We are a research group based at the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. Our research mission is advancing environmental decision-analytics  for supporting human decisions in complex engineering systems including multiple actors and exposed to evolving multisectoral demands and global change. Our research fuses environmental, climate, and hydrologic disciplines with machine learning, optimal control, and evolutionary computation. This multidisciplinary mix yields innovative, flexible, and robust solutions facilitating participatory decision making processes by addressing the multifaceted complexity of environmental systems, including their nested interdependencies across stakeholders, processes, and policies at different spatial scales; as well as potential changes in human-nature interactions and feedbacks under changing climate extremes and societal demands.
NEWS
Prof. Andrea Castelletti, head of the eiLab, has been interviewed into L'Eco di Bergamo to recap main learning from the AMBER project (Adaptive…
The competition for water, energy, and food is intensifying, and this is happening at…
The eiLab led a study in collaboration with Technische Universität Berlin, Einstein Center Digital Future, Delft University of Technology,…
The eiLab carried out a systematic review to identify the current research trends and set the future…
The eiLab participates in a study in collaboration with colleagues from the Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo…
The eiLab led a study in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Padova and Stanford University,…
In June 21, 2023, from 9 am to 6:30 pm CEST, the META is organizing a working day on the most recent trends in research on climate change.
The…
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The environmental impacts of new African hydropower can be substantially reduced via multi-objective energy planning.
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Our new AI Working Group is hosting a webinar on Friday June 14 from 12-1:30 pm ET. Register here: https://cornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucuCgrTwiG90OIYiKfp2M8PvbdJQCGv9m
Publications
- Foroumandi, E., Moradkhani, H., Sanchez-Vila, X., Singha, K., Castelletti, A., Destouni, G. (2023), ChatGPT in Hydrology and Earth Sciences: Opportunities, prospects and concerns, Water Resources Research, e2023WR036288
- Crippa, N., Grillakis, M.G., Tsilimigkras, A., Yang, G., Giuliani, M., Koutroulis, A.G. (2023). Seasonal forecast-informed reservoir operation. Potential benefits for a water-stressed Mediterranean basin, Climate Services, 32, 100406
- Salcedo-Sanz, S., Perez-Aracil, J., Ascenso, G., del Ser, J., Casillas-Perez, D., Kadow, C., Fister, D., Barriopedro, D., Garcia-Herrera, R., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A. (2023). Analysis, characterization, prediction, and attribution of extreme atmospheric events with machine learning and deep learning techniques: a review, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, in press
- Carlino, A., Wildemeersch, M., Chawanda, C.J., Giuliani, M., Sterl, S., Thiery, W., van Griensven, A., Castelletti, A. (2023). Declining cost of renewables and climate change curb the need for African hydropower expansion, Science, 381, 6658
- Arnold, W., Salazar, J. Z., Carlino, A., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A. (2023). Operations eclipse sequencing in multipurpose dam planning, Earth’s Future, 11, e2022EF003186