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Michael Kapteyn

Michael Kapteyn

Michael is a PhD student studying computational aerospace engineering at MIT.

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Digital Twins: Where Data, Mathematics, Models, and Decisions Collide
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Digital Twins: Where Data, Mathematics, Models, and Decisions Collide

Prof. Karen Willcox and I authored a piece for SIAM News about our perspectives and recent work on digital twins. Here is a short excerpt from the article: "The early successes of

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    Michael Kapteyn
Sep 02, 2021
Successful PhD Thesis Defense!
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Successful PhD Thesis Defense!

On May 6, 2021 I successfully defended my doctoral thesis entitled Mathematical and Computational Foundations to Enable Predictive Digital Twins at Scale. You can find a copy of my full PhD Thesis here,

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    Michael Kapteyn
Jun 04, 2021
A Probabilistic Graphical Model Foundation for Enabling Predictive Digital Twins at Scale
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A Probabilistic Graphical Model Foundation for Enabling Predictive Digital Twins at Scale

We have proposed a unifying mathematical foundation for digital twins, with the goal of moving from the one-off digital twin to accessible and robust digital twin implementations at scale.

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    Michael Kapteyn
May 19, 2021
From Physics-based Models to Predictive Digital Twins via Interpretable Machine Learning (INFORMS 2020 Presentation)
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From Physics-based Models to Predictive Digital Twins via Interpretable Machine Learning (INFORMS 2020 Presentation)

This week (November 7 - 13, 2020) I attended the 2020 INFORMS annual meeting. I was pleased to be invited to present a talk entitled "From Physics-based Models to Predictive Digital Twins via

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    Michael Kapteyn
Nov 09, 2020
A Hardware Testbed for Dynamic Data-Driven Aerospace Digital Twins (DDDAS/InfoSymbiotics 2020)
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A Hardware Testbed for Dynamic Data-Driven Aerospace Digital Twins (DDDAS/InfoSymbiotics 2020)

This week (October 2-4, 2020), I attended the third international conference on Dynamic Data-driven Application Systems (DDDAS). Recorded presentations and abstracts can be found on the conference website, while papers can be found

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    Michael Kapteyn
Oct 04, 2020
In the Media: Developing a Digital Twin
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In the Media: Developing a Digital Twin

My PhD work was featured in an article at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. The article is beautifully written and provides a great introduction to my research! "In the

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    Michael Kapteyn
Dec 08, 2019
Toward a Self-Aware UAV: Predictive digital twins via reduced-order models and interpretable machine learning
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Toward a Self-Aware UAV: Predictive digital twins via reduced-order models and interpretable machine learning

This post introduces my PhD work developing a predictive digital twin of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). I presented this work at the AIAA Scitech conference in January 2020, where our paper was

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    Michael Kapteyn
Dec 01, 2019
Predictive Data Science for Physical Systems (SC19 Presentation)
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Predictive Data Science for Physical Systems (SC19 Presentation)

Prof. Karen Willcox (my PhD advisor) gave an invited talk at SC19, entitled "Predictive Data Science for Physical Systems: From Model Reduction to Scientific Machine Learning". This talk offers a great high-level overview

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    Michael Kapteyn
Nov 22, 2019
Toward a Self-Aware Aircraft: Data-Driven Decisions, Adaptive Reduced Models, and Digital Twins (USNCCM 2019 Presentation)
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Toward a Self-Aware Aircraft: Data-Driven Decisions, Adaptive Reduced Models, and Digital Twins (USNCCM 2019 Presentation)

This week (July 28 - August 1, 2019) I attended the 15th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM) in Austin, TX. I was pleased to be invited to present a talk entitled

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    Michael Kapteyn
Aug 01, 2019
Project: Implementing and testing geometric control on the Intel Aero Drone
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Project: Implementing and testing geometric control on the Intel Aero Drone

This post showcases a class project I completed for MIT course 16.S398: Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles (VNAV) in Fall 2018, taught by Prof. Luca Carlone. This was a really fun project,

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    Michael Kapteyn
Jan 04, 2019
Development of an adaptive-pitch wave energy turbine
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Development of an adaptive-pitch wave energy turbine

In 2014/15 I undertook a 3 month research internship at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). During this time I worked under Professor Tsumoru Shintake on the early stages of

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    Michael Kapteyn
Feb 01, 2015
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