Summary
Mario Bergés is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University with a decade-long track record in instrumenting civil infrastructure to boost resilience, adaptiveness, and self-monitoring. He specializes in cost-effective sensor networks, data acquisition, and applying machine learning to signal processing for infrastructure and building energy management. His work bridges hands-on engineering—designing sensors and electricity monitoring systems—with data-driven insights that turn easy-to-obtain measurements into actionable decisions for highways and buildings. Trained with a Ph.D. in Advanced Infrastructure Systems, he combines academic rigor with industry experience from project management and construction roles, giving him a practical edge in deployment and field instrumentation. Notably, he focuses on extracting maximal value from low-cost sensors, a pragmatic approach that accelerates scalable monitoring without relying on expensive instrumentation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Civil Engineering, B.S., Civil Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Portuguese, Spanish