Albert Cerrone

Albert Cerrone serves as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering and holds a concurrent appointment as Senior Research Fellow at the Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin. His work bridges academic research and industrial applications through Digital Twin technologies.

Dr. Cerrone earned his PhD in 2014 from Cornell University under Tony Ingraffea, specializing in multiscale modeling of microcrack nucleation in superalloys. Prior to Notre Dame, he conducted durability research on ceramic matrix composites at GE Research's Lifing Technologies Laboratory.

His research integrates machine learning with computational mechanics to advance Digital Twin frameworks across geospatio-temporal domains and materials systems. Key applications include probabilistic storm surge forecasting using high-fidelity hydrodynamics models, durability assessment of additively manufactured metals, and ultrasound-mediated biofilm disruption for inflammatory disease therapies. He employs transformer networks for real-time hydrodynamic error correction and develops geometric modeling tools for viral and biofilm structures.

Recent publications demonstrate a clear trajectory toward operationalizing Digital Twin concepts, with increasing emphasis on machine learning integration for coastal inundation modeling and cross-disciplinary materials characterization. His work spans fundamental mechanics to deployable operational systems like NOAA's STOFS-2D-Global.

Dr. Cerrone actively collaborates with NASA Langley on additive manufacturing projects and contributes to cystic fibrosis treatment research with Trinity College Dublin. His laboratory work includes computational modeling using ABAQUS, DREAM.3D, and custom Python frameworks for mesh generation and geometric reconstruction.

• Developed Polycrystal Volume Mesher for microstructure meshing
• Created Virion to Shell code for virus geometric modeling
• Teaches Solid Mechanics, Statics, and Engineering Programming