Filippo Masi

About

I am a research scientist at the Inria Centre at Université Grenoble Alpes, in the TRIPOP team.

Before that, I was a Research Associate at the University of Sydney (Australia), working with Itai Einav. I studied at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Florence in Italy and completed my thesis at École Centrale de Nantes, in collaboration with Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ecole des Ponts, and Ingérop.

Research

My work focuses on the mechanics of complex materials—materials possessing multiple inherent spatial scales. Combining theory, numerical simulations and experiments, I aim to understand their mechanical behaviour and the scale-transition process, and to derive macroscopic constitutive descriptions for large-scale systems and structures. I develop discrete- and finite-element simulations, machine-learning methods, constitutive models and thermodynamics-based approaches. My activities concern dissipative and nonlinear phenomena such as plasticity, fracture, friction and impacts, with particular interest in fast dynamics.

Keywords: solid mechanics, computational mechanics, scientific machine learning, constitutive modelling, multiscale materials, plasticity, impact and fast dynamics

I have recently been awarded a chair from the Multidisciplinary Institute in Artificial Intelligence, with Vincent Acary, for the project AIM: Artificial Intelligence and Mechanics. You can find more details on the AIM webpage.

You can find further details in Research.

Teaching

My teaching activities include machine learning in and for mechanics, continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, and numerical analysis at doctoral, master and bachelor levels, see Teaching.