Giuseppe Romano

Research Scientist, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology

Giuseppe Romano is a research scientist in MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology; he is also affiliated with the MIT Energy Initiative. 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. He is the developer of OpenBTE, an open-source software for simulating nanoscale thermal transport in arbitrary geometries, and 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. Romano earned a BS in telecommunications engineering and a PhD in microelectronics engineering from the Università di Roma Tor Vergata.

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