Energy Hack Days 2025
Roberto holds an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Particle Physics from the University of Torino, Italy. He has worked for several years in fundamental research as a senior fellow and data scientist at the CERN Experimental Physics division and on a research project supported by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS). In 2018 he moved to EPFL to work on data mining and Machine Learning techniques for the built environment and renewable energies. He has started and led multiple collaborations with academic and industry partners in the energy domain. Roberto joined the SDSC in September 2021 as a Principal Data Scientist with the mission of accompanying industries, NGOs and international organizations through their data science journey.
Rok obtained a B.A. in Physics from Washington University in St.Louis in 2003. After obtaining his PhD in theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Washington in 2010, Rok spent several years as a Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Science, University of Zürich. Seeking new challenges, he moved to the ETH Scientific IT Services group, where he helped researchers across different ETH domains solve their (big) data analysis problems. He specialized in optimizing and scaling up data analysis tasks by mapping them to high-performance computing resources. Since July 2017 he has been at the Swiss Data Science Center developing Renku, the Center's data science platform.
Presentation
The Swiss DataScience Center (SDSC) joins the Energy Data Innovation Hub (EDIH) for this year’s edition of the Energy Hack Days providing the collaborative data science platform Renku to be used by participants throughout the event.
Challenge organizers and participants will take advantage of Renku to organize the teams’ data and code and use the provided compute resources to quickly experiment and build up their solutions. The project assets will live on within a common space on renkulab.io so the projects can continue to be used and reused well after the event.
Details
Energy Data Hackdays 2025
The Energy Data Hackdays bring together developers, data scientists, designers, researchers, energy professionals and creative minds to tackle real-world energy challenges using data and technology.
📅 September 11–12, 2025
📍FHNW Campus Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland
Programme
What to expect:
Almost 32 hours of team-based hacking and co-creation in 12 real-world challenges from energy utilities, startups, public agencies and research institutions
More information: https://www.energydatahackdays.ch/
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Silvia holds an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York, UK. She has been a senior research fellow at the University of Trento and later at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Here, she had the chance to work on Marie Curie and ERC projects relating to natural language processing. From 2012 to 2019, she was a Senior Manager and NLP expert at ELCA Informatique Switzerland, whose AI department she helped create and expand. Silvia joined the Swiss Data Science Center in 2019 and is currently its Chief Transformation Officer, in charge of the team leading organizations to digital transformation.
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