Silvio Brandi

Dr. Silvio Brandi is a Fixed-term Assistant Professor at the Department of Energy (DENERG) of Politecnico di Torino. He serves as Course Collaborator for multiple programs including Energy Management and Automation in Buildings (2025/26) and Energy Transition and Low-Carbon Architecture B (2025/26), while also being an invited member of the College of Architecture and Design and College of Electrical and Energy Engineering.

• Scientific Branch: IIND-07/B - Environmental Technical Physics
• Research Area: Industrial and Information Engineering (0009)

His research focuses on building physics and energy systems, with a strong emphasis on deep reinforcement learning applications for building energy management. Key projects include:

• Commercial Research Contract (2024-2025): "Data-Driven Performance Analysis for Industrial Energy Systems"
• Commercial Research (2023-2024): "Advanced data-driven smart reporting systems"

Recent publications highlight his work in:

• Co-simulation infrastructure for renewable energy communities
• HVAC optimization via deep reinforcement learning
• Transfer learning for scalable building controllers
• Thermal energy storage pre-training with LSTM models

Dr. Brandi also contributes to software patents like "A 24-HOUR FORECASTING PROCESS FOR BUILDING ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND BASED ON DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES" (2024). His teaching spans Energy Engineering and Architecture for Sustainability programs across multiple academic years (2019-2025).