Data Science Institute

Miguel Bessa and his research group envision a new era for the design of materials and structures using artificial intelligence. Miguel received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2016 as a Fulbright scholar. After a short postdoctoral position at Caltech (2017) and a quick leap from Assistant to Associate Professor (2021) at Delft University of Technology, he joined the Solid Mechanics Group at Brown University in the Summer of 2022.

How does your research, teaching, or other work relate to data or computational science?

My group develops machine learning algorithms and applied them to design materials and structures. I teach the "Data-driven design & analysis for structures & materials" graduate-level course.