Jesse Sestito, Ph.D.

Jesse Sestito, Ph.D.

Jesse Sestito, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering jesse.sestito@valpo.edu 219.464.6495 Gellersen Hall, Room 131A

Education

B.S. – Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Ph.D. – Georgia Institute of Technology

Courses Taught
  • System Modeling and Numerical Methods
  • Senior Design
  • Materials Science
Research Interests
  • Engineering Design Optimization
  • Multiscale Modeling
  • Machine Learning
Professional Affiliations
  • Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Publications
  • Sestito, J.M., Thatcher, M.L., Shu, L., Harris, T.A.L., Wang, Y. 2020. “Coarse-grained force field calibration based on multi-objective Bayesian optimization to simulate water diffusion in poly-E-caprolactone.” Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(24):5042-5052. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c01939.
  • Sestito, J.M., Abdeljawad, F., Harris, T.A.L., Wang, Y, and Roach, A. 2019. “An atomistic simulation study of nanoscale sintering: The role of grain boundary misorientation.” Computational Materials Science, 165: 180-189. https://doi.org.10.1016/j.commatsci.2019.04.015.