MechE Colloquium: Mechanics in the Data era
Event details
| Date | 03.12.2024 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Antoine Jérusalem, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
Abstract: The field of mechanics has traditionally been built on a tight interplay between theory, experiment and simulation. This causal mechanistic approach aimed at predicting new behaviours for unexplored situations typically suffers from a lack of scalability, whereby material design at the smallest scale is not straightforwardly translated into functional behaviour at the structural scale. While the rise of AI is poised to bypass this mechanistic limitation altogether by simply looking for correlations between function and input data, it is also limited to the interpolation of training data, thus losing the extrapolation ability of mechanistic modelling. In this talk, I will present a framework leveraging simultaneously the strengths of both approaches, and apply them to i) machine learning and ii) optimisation engineering problems. The former will focus on traumatic brain injury in the context of assaults whereby accurate injury prediction is required for police investigations (some work on foetal and maternal injury prediction in labour may be presented if time allows), while the latter will focus on aerodynamics and metamaterials design.
Biography: Antoine Jérusalem is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering specialising in computational mechanics, particularly in the context of biological systems and materials science. He earned a double degree in 2004 from the École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in France and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he completed a Master’s in Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2007, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics of Materials from MIT. After his postdoctoral work at MIT, Jérusalem became the leader of the Computational Mechanics of Materials Group at the IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid in 2008. In 2012, he joined the University of Oxford where he currently is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He also co-directs the International Brain Mechanics and Trauma Lab at Oxford and is the founder and coEditor-in-Chief of Brain multiphysics.
Biography: Antoine Jérusalem is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering specialising in computational mechanics, particularly in the context of biological systems and materials science. He earned a double degree in 2004 from the École Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace in France and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he completed a Master’s in Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2007, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics of Materials from MIT. After his postdoctoral work at MIT, Jérusalem became the leader of the Computational Mechanics of Materials Group at the IMDEA Materials Institute in Madrid in 2008. In 2012, he joined the University of Oxford where he currently is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He also co-directs the International Brain Mechanics and Trauma Lab at Oxford and is the founder and coEditor-in-Chief of Brain multiphysics.
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