Prof. Miguel Bessa — Research Profile
Graduate application deadlines
School of Engineering – Mechanics (Fluids and Thermal Sciences; Solid Mechanics)
Engineering, PhD (Fluids and Thermal Sciences / Mechanics of Solids and Structures)
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Source: apply.graduateschool.brown.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, ScM
Fall 2027Fall Priority
Feb 1, 2027
Application deadline
Fall Regular
Apr 1, 2027
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Source: engineering.brown.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Miguel Bessa at Brown University School of Engineering – Mechanics (Fluids and Thermal Sciences; Solid Mechanics) lists computational mechanics and materials science, development of numerical methods, machine learning and optimization, multi-scale modeling of materials and structures as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Bilevel Optimization of Topology and Hyperparameters (BOTH)PreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 18
- Constitutive State-Space Modeling of Path-Dependent Plasticity: A Resolution-Consistent and Parallelizable Computational FrameworkPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 7
- Reinforcement learning to choose optimizersPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Sep 1
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