Alfredo Braunstein

Alfredo Braunstein is an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, and a member of SmartData@PoliTO laboratory. His research spans combinatorial optimization, statistical physics of complex systems, epidemic inference, and computational biology.

He leads the Simultaneous Inference from Multiscale Biological Data (SIMBAD) project (2023-2027) and previously led Statistical Inference via Belief Propagation for Epidemics (SIBYL) (2015-2017). He has supervised multiple PhD students in Physics of Complex Systems.

• Research Interests: Statistical physics, machine learning, network science, epidemic modeling, and optimization.
• Key Collaborations: Collegio Carlo Alberto, Human Genetics Foundation, and interdisciplinary teams.

His recent publications focus on epidemic risk estimation, network dismantling, and message-passing algorithms. He received the La Ricerca dei Talenti award from Fondazione CRT (2015).