Miguel Bessa
Associate Professor
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Bessa is an Associate Professor in Brown University’s Solid Mechanics Group with nine years of experience at the interface of computational mechanics and machine learning, leading data-driven design and analysis of materials and structures. He established and directed MACHINA at TU Delft and held faculty roles there before transitioning to Brown, bringing a track record of building interdisciplinary research teams and translating theory into computational tools. His work blends continuum mechanics, multiscale modeling, and ML-based constitutive modeling to accelerate materials discovery and structural analysis. Trained at Northwestern (PhD) and Caltech (postdoc), he combines rigorous theory with open, reproducible software—his lab maintains an active project site and codebase that supports adoption of data-driven mechanics methods.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoCalifornia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Northwestern University
Github Skills (10)
data-driven10
density-estimation10
materials-informatics9
optimization9
machine-learning9
fenics9
forking3
react2
javascript1
collaboration1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mabessa/Intro2ML
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
mabessa/mabessa.github.io
Apr 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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