Celani Alberto

Registered with the Order of Journalists since 2008, he has collaborated with the global media outlet France 24 on the program *Observers of France 24* as an analyst. He has worked as a sports executive in professional clubs in Paris–Dakar, rugby, and cycling, and was co-founder of the Master’s program in Sport Management for former athletes at MIP Politecnico di Milano, together with Alessandro Brun. Within the ABC Department, he worked on attracting foreign investment in urban areas, contributing to the drafting of the ATTRACT programs of the Lombardy Region during his PhD and subsequently during his postdoctoral research appointment. He is currently involved in research on smart city services through the use of Artificial Intelligence within the Horizon TEF project *CitCom.AI*; on factory-based engineering models for building components within the Horizon project *SPHEERE*; and on decision support systems for Nature-Based Solutions (Horizon+ project *Naturelles*).

Career

BSc in Management Engineering Logistics and Production, MSc in Management of Built Environment, PhD in Architecture Built Environment and Construction Engineering.

Research

Research activities within the REC Real Estate Center of the DABC, focusing on the attraction of foreign investments in urban areas; smart cities, with particular attention to technology-driven urban services through the use of Artificial Intelligence; factory-based manufacturing and engineering of building components; and ICT-based decision support systems for Nature-Based Solutions.

Selected Publications

M. Ivanova, A. Celani and L. Mottola, "Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Forecasting Urban Air Pollutants," 2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), Lucca, Italy, 2025, pp. 960-967, doi: 10.1109/DCOSS-IoT65416.2025.00145.

Keywords: {Training; Analytical models; Accuracy; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Training data; Predictive models; Air pollution; Data models; Forecasting; Air quality forecasting; machine learning; ensemble models; environmental monitoring; pollutant prediction; data-driven modeling},

Kholod, M.; Celani, A.; Ciaramella, G. The Analysis of Customers’ Transactions Based on POS and RFID Data Using Big Data Analytics Tools in the Retail Space of the Future. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 11567.

Badenko, V.; Bolshakov, N.; Celani, A.; Puglisi, V. Principles for Sustainable Integration of BIM and Digital Twin Technologies in Industrial Infrastructure. Sustainability 2024, 16, 9885.

Bolshakov, N.; Celani, A.; Badenko, V.; Benedicto, R.M. Factories of the Future in Digitization of Industrial Urban Areas. Urban Sci. 2024, 8, 66.

Bolshakov, N.; Rakova, X.; Celani, A.; Badenko, V. Operation Principles of the Industrial Facility Infrastructures Using Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology in Conjunction with Model-Based System Engineering (MBSE). Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 11804.

Community Service

Early stage researcher delegate in the ENHANCE General Assembly, scientific advisor for the Ministry of Infrastructure for EDIC-Citiverse European Digital Innovation Consortia, registered in the MIMIT register of technological innovation experts.