Mario Berges

Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, CMU
Scholar, Amazon

Mario Bergés is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and a Scholar at Amazon. At CMU, he is interested in making our built environment more operationally efficient and robust through the use of information and communication technologies, so that it can better deal with future resource constraints and a changing environment. Currently his work largely focuses on supporting autonomous systems (buildings, space habitats and other physical infrastructure assets) by developing digital twin frameworks through which software and human agents can interact with them. Bergés has led multiple research projects on a wide range of problems related to sensing and data analysis for civil infrastructure systems, particularly in the area of buildings and energy efficiency with funding from federal agencies (e.g., DOE, ARPA-E, NSF, NASA), industry (e.g., Bosch, HP Labs, Samsung) and other sources. His work has resulted in over 100 publications in top peer-reviewed journal and conference venues, as well as popular press coverage by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Bergés is the director of the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Lab (INFERLab) at CMU. Among recent awards, he received the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys in 2019, and the Professor of the Year Award by the ASCE Pittsburgh Chapter in 2018. Bergés received his B.Sc. in 2004 from the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic; and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2007 and 2010, respectively, both from Carnegie Mellon University. When not conducting research at CMU or Amazon (which, thankfully, he enjoys very much), Mario also enjoys traveling, playing his guitar and spending time with his family.