Lorenzo Nespoli
Probabilistic ML · forecasting & control · uncertainty quantification
Physical & infrastructure systems · open-source tools (Python / PyTorch / JAX)
King of baselines and dummy benchmarks
I live in Lugano and I’m currently a Senior Researcher at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, SUPSI. I'm a co-founder of Hive Power. I graduated at PoliMi in 2014 in Energy Engineering, with a thesis on CFD. I received my Ph.D. at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, with the thesis Model based forecasting for demand response strategies.
Research scientist profile: I build probabilistic and neural models for prediction and decision-making under uncertainty, with emphasis on dynamical systems arising in energy and mobility. Methods span parametric and non-parametric ML, robust and stochastic control, simulation at scale, and explainable pipelines from data to deployment—aligned with learning for structured, real-world environments.