Mario Bergés

About

Welcome to the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Laboratory (INFER Lab), from the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. We are interested in improving the operational efficiency of our physical infrastructure, as well as increasing its resilience, adaptiveness and autonomy. In an increasingly resource-constrained world, our infrastructure systems will need to be able to interact with their environment and with each other in order to maximize their efficiency and minimize risks. Hence, our lab interested in solving these challenges by providing answers to questions such as: (a) how can we utilize the data generated by instrumentation systems to provide better feedback, learn from experience and better plan for the future?, (b) how can we improve and leverage the interconnectedness of our infrastructure?, and (c) to what extent can we utilize the resources that are already present in our infrastructure to help solve these problems?

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering
• Business
• Knowledge management
• Environmental science
• Architectural engineering
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Machine Learning
• Data science

Selected publications

• Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management

  Building and Environment · 2023 · 106 citations

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• A voltage and current measurement dataset for plug load appliance identification in households

  Scientific Data · 2020 · 104 citations

  This paper presents the Plug-Load Appliance Identification Dataset (PLAID), a labelled dataset containing records of the electrical voltage and current of domestic electrical appliances obtained at a high sampling frequency (30 kHz). The dataset contains 1876 records of individually-metered appliances from 17 different appliance types (e.g., refrigerators, microwave ovens, etc.) comprising 330 different makes and models, and collected at 65 different locations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA).…

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• Ten questions concerning human-building interaction research for improving the quality of life

  Building and Environment · 2022 · 68 citations

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• Effects of Climate Change on Capacity Expansion Decisions of an Electricity Generation Fleet in the Southeast U.S.

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2021 · 63 citations

  The electric power sector in the United States faces many challenges related to climate change. On the demand side, climate change could shift demand patterns due to increased air temperatures. On the supply side, climate change could lead to deratings of thermal units due to changes in air temperature, water temperature, and water availability. Past studies have typically analyzed these risks separately. Here, we developed an integrated, multimodel framework to analyze how compounding risks of…

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• Short-term probabilistic forecasting of meso-scale near-surface urban temperature fields

  Environmental Modelling & Software · 2021 · 14 citations

  This paper introduces a probabilistic approach to spatio-temporal high resolution meso-scale modeling of near-surface temperature and applies it to regions of dimension about 150∼200 km, with 1 km grid spacing and 30-min interval. Our probabilistic approach, based on linear Gaussian models and dimensionality reduction, can accurately forecast short-term temperature fields and serve as a computationally less expensive alternative to physics-based models that necessitate high-performance computing…

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Frequent coauthors

• Burcu Akinci

  Carnegie Mellon University

  55 shared

• James H. Garrett

  Shell (United States)

  50 shared

• Lúcio Soibelman

  University of Southern California

  35 shared

• Hae Young Noh

  23 shared

• Pingbo Tang

  Carnegie Mellon University

  22 shared

• Mani Golparvar Fard

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  21 shared

• Nora El-Gohary

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  21 shared

• Mohsen Shahandashti

  The University of Texas at Arlington

  20 shared

Labs

• INFERLabPI

Awards & honors

• Professor of the Year Award by the ASCE Pittsburgh Chapter (…
• Outstanding Early Career Researcher award from FIATECH (2010…
• Dean's Early Career Fellowship from CMU (2015)

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