Dr. Giuseppe Romano

Giuseppe Romano is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research integrates multiscale modeling, machine-learning, and high-throughput experiments to accelerate the discovery of energy materials. Recent focus includes the inverse design of devices for photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications.

He is the PI/co-PI of projects funded by the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and NASA; the developer of OpenBTE, an open-source software for simulating nanoscale thermal transport in arbitrary geometries; and he coordinated the development of ∂PV, a differentiable solar cell simulator.

In 2019, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and in the fall of 2018, he was a visiting scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. He joined MIT in 2010 after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata.