ICRE is one of the leading international events dedicated to reliability engineering, bringing together researchers, professionals, and industry representatives to discuss the latest developments in reliability, risk management, complex system resilience, and artificial intelligence applications. These topics are among the main research areas of the Laboratory of Analysis of Systems for the Assessment of Reliability, Risk and Resilience (LASAR³) at Politecnico di Milano.
In his talk, entitled “Computational Risk Assessment (CRA): Challenges and Opportunities”, Professor Di Maio explored how tools such as artificial intelligence, digital twins, and advanced computational models can support risk analysis and decision-making processes in complex systems and infrastructures. The keynote also highlighted the main open methodological challenges and the opportunities offered by the integration of data-driven approaches and physics-based models to make risk assessments increasingly accurate, reliable, and applicable in industrial contexts.
The participation of the Department of Energy at ICRE 2026 was particularly significant thanks also to the scientific contributions presented by researchers from the LASAR³ group. Among these, the work presented by Giovanni Floreale received the Best Paper Award, while Li Zongjie, Valentina Clavijo, Bin Wang, and André Casotti contributed to the conference through scientific presentations and thematic sessions, confirming the international recognition and dynamism of the laboratory’s research activities.