Mario Bergés
Professor Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh PA
Mario Bergés is interested in making our built environment more operationally efficient through the use of communication technologies.
Biography
Bergés is the faculty co-director of the Smart Infrastructure Institute at CMU, as well as the director of the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Lab (INFERLab). Among recent awards, he received the Professor of the Year Award by the ASCE Pittsburgh Chapter in 2018, Outstanding Early Career Researcher award from FIATECH in 2010, and the Dean's Early Career Fellowship from CMU in 2015.
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.
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
Research Using AI in Energy Applications at CMU Showcases the Frontier of Opportunities
CMU News online
2025-03-24
Mario Bergés, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, examines the way existing buildings monitor and use energy in order to make them more efficient.
His research involves what is known as non-intrusive load monitoring, which analyzes smart meter data, identifying appliance usage and predicting malfunctions.
“If you can be smart about how to analyze the data that's coming from your smart meter, then you are going to be able to fingerprint individual appliances and also get to know a lot about the behavior of people in the home through their usage of devices that consume electricity,” Bergés said.
Dominican Republic Greens see ‘hope reborn’
Dominican Today online
2020-12-04
"Today, in this esplanade of the Attorney General’s Office, we can express satisfaction because as a result of the organization and persistence of this people, actions are beginning to be seen to apply justice to those who have illegally enriched themselves from State coffers,” said Mario Bergés, reading a document on behalf of the civic movement Marcha Verde.
Smart space habitat looks to put AI to work in deep space
New Atlas online
2019-09-26
"How do you conduct automated fault detection and diagnosis without a lot of system data? This is where AI comes in," says Associate Professor Mario Bergés, who heads up the research team. "We have machines that learn by themselves if you give them enough data, but we don't have a lot of machines that can reason by using existing engineering knowledge, which can reduce the amount of data they need."
Brick Consortium Announces Inaugural Commercial Members
AutomatedBuildings.com online
2022-01-20
“We are excited to have these industry leaders joining the Brick Consortium and contributing to the development of the Brick schema” said Carnegie Mellon University professor Yuvraj Agarwal. “The Consortium will provide the community assurances that Brick has a long-term future and can be a contributing technology for improving the efficiency and comfort of buildings” said Carnegie Mellon University professor Mario Bergés. Both Agarwal and Bergés are Brick Consortium Steering Committee members.
Brick Consortium Announces Inaugural Commercial Members
ACHR News online
2022-01-24
“The Consortium will provide the community assurances that Brick has a long-term future and can be a contributing technology for improving the efficiency and comfort of buildings,” added Carnegie Mellon University Professor Mario Bergés.
Carnegie Mellon University: Where graduates land high-demand careers in AI
Study International online
2022-09-29
“I’m excited to see what transformations that will happen to our profession once these students have graduated and taken on the workforce,” says Mario Bergés, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “This new generation of engineers will not only be able to master AI tools but to recognise how they can leverage engineering domain knowledge to extend them to be more practical and powerful.”
Media
Social
Industry Expertise
Accomplishments
ASCE Pittsburgh Section 2017 Professor of the Year Award
2018
Dean's Early Career Fellowship Award
2015
CMU College of Engineering
Education
Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
B.S.
Civil Engineering
2005
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2007
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
2010
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Patents
Electrical meter system for energy desegregation
US11499999B2
2018-11-15
An energy meter is configured to determine component waveforms that form a measured waveform. The meter inputs the waveform into one or more entries of a data structure, each entry of the one or more entries of the data structure storing a weight value that is determined based at least in part on values of the data signatures representing the plurality of remote devices, each entry being connected to one or more other entries of the data structure.
Articles
The Digital Twin Landscape at the Crossroads of Predictive Maintenance, Machine Learning and Physics Based Modeling
arXiv:2206.104622022
The concept of a digital twin has exploded in popularity over the past decade, yet confusion around its plurality of definitions, its novelty as a new technology, and its practical applicability still exists, all despite numerous reviews, surveys, and press releases. The history of the term digital twin is explored, as well as its initial context in the fields of product life cycle management, asset maintenance, and equipment fleet management, operations, and planning. A definition for a minimally viable framework to utilize a digital twin is also provided based on seven essential elements.
Ten questions concerning human-building interaction research for improving the quality of life
Building and Environment2022
This paper seeks to address ten questions that explore the burgeoning field of Human-Building Interaction (HBI), an interdisciplinary field that represents the next frontier in convergent research and innovation to enable the dynamic interplay of human and building interactional intelligence.
The field of human building interaction for convergent research and innovation for intelligent built environments
Scientific Reports2022
Human-Building Interaction (HBI) is a convergent field that represents the growing complexities of the dynamic interplay between human experience and intelligence within built environments. This paper provides core definitions, research dimensions, and an overall vision for the future of HBI as developed through consensus among 25 interdisciplinary experts in a series of facilitated workshops.
Characterizing Data Sharing in Civil Infrastructure Engineering: Current Practice, Future Vision, Barriers, and Promotion Strategies
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering2023
Data sharing between different organizations is critical in supporting decision making in civil infrastructure engineering projects (e.g., transportation projects). Understanding the characteristics of data-sharing-related factors in civil infrastructure engineering is crucial for the civil engineering community to identify the priorities in promoting data sharing. The ASCE Data Sensing and Analysis (DSA) Committee initiated an investigation on data-sharing barriers in civil infrastructure engineering.
AlphaShed: A scalable load flexibility model for shedding potential in commercial HVAC systems
Energy and Buildings2023
Technologies that enable the demand flexibility (DF) in building loads have been identified as a key advancements to support the reliable operation of the electric grid. The concept of grid-interactive efficiency buildings (GEBs) envisions building loads actively controlling power consumption in alignment with grid services. Commercial HVAC systems, through load shedding, hold a significant portion of this resource.
