He was the Director of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam for 3.5 years (from July 2019 to December, 2022). He Obtained his B.E.(Civil Engineering) from University of Mysore; Master’s from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 and Ph.D. from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1991. He worked as a lecture at University of Waterloo soon after his PhD and later moved to University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA (1992-94). He also held the position of Director (additional charge) at Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar, Assam for 1.5 years (May 2021-November 2022). Presently, he is the Chairman, Board of Governors at CIT, Kokrajhar and Chairman, Board of Management of North East Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Arunachala Pradesh.

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Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Johor Bahru
Johor, Malaysia

Prof. ARVIND KUMAR MISHRA is Professor at IIT(ISM), Dhanbad and Director CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad.

Derek Elsworth is G. Albert Shoemaker Chair and Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences at Penn State. He is co-founder of the Center for Geomechanics, Geofluids, and Geohazards. His interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, rock mechanics, and in the mechanical and transport characteristics of fractured rocks, with application to geothermal energy, the deep geological sequestration of radioactive wastes and of CO2, unconventional hydrocarbons including coal-gas, tight-gas-shales and hydrates, and instability and eruption dynamics of volcanoes.

Dr Masoud Monjezi joined Tarbiat Modares University in 2002 as an assistant professor (currently professor) to be involved in the mining program as an academic. His primary research areas are mine blasting and open pit mine planning and design. He has made significant contributions to the mining program at exploitation division, and this along with his research output and engagement demonstrate level of his academic activities in the field of mining engineering. Dr. Monjezi has paid a lot of attention to his teaching in terms of educational development incorporating project-based learning, work integrated learning and field visits. Masoud has performed extremely well in research related to mine blasting and open pit mining, two fundamentally important areas of great concern in the mining industry. Overall, he has published more than 100 research papers in different reputed national and international journals with high impact factors and reputable conference proceedings. His career h-index is 26 (Scopus) and 1645 citations. He has also published a book (in Persian) entitled Blast Engineering in Open Pits using Intelligent Systems.

DR ZHIWEI GAO is a Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow. I am also a member of the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (GCEC) funded by the EPSRC.

Adnan Aydin, is a Professor, Geology and Geological Engineering at Ole Miss Engineering.

Prof. Ismet Canbulat is a mining engineer with over 30 years of experience in research, consultancy, management, on-site and academia. He has BSc, MSc and PhD degrees from Istanbul Technical University, the University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Pretoria, respectively. In South Africa, he worked for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as a Research Area Manager in Rock Engineering Programme. After ten years in research, he moved to consultancy and worked for Groundwork Consulting and later for Strata Engineering (currently Golder Associates) in Australia as a Principal Engineer. In 2008, Ismet joined Anglo American in Brisbane, where he was the Group Geotechnical Engineer until November 2014. He was responsible for leading the development of geotechnical engineering standards, procedures and best practices; supporting operations in mine design and green field projects at concept, pre-feasibility and feasibility levels; providing technical support for business risk management; technical support for design and selection of mining equipment as well as the implementation of new technologies and research findings at operations. Since 2014, Ismet has been Professor, Head of School and Kenneth Finlay Chair of Rock Mechanics at the School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, UNSW Sydney.

Dr. Fall is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the Director of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Environmental Engineering. He graduated from the Earth Science Institute at the University of Dakar with an Award of Excellence for best graduating engineer. He was awarded a PhD excellence scholarship for his PhD studies in geotechnical engineering at the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology (Germany).
Subsequently, he was granted a postdoctoral fellowship by the German Research Foundation and coordinated the German Research Chair of Environmental Geosciences and Geotechnics.
In 2006, Dr. Fall joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He has been leading several major research projects that are related to mine waste management, underground disposal of nuclear wastes, carbon sequestration and engineered landfill technology. Dr. Fall is currently supervising a large research team of postdoctoral researchers and graduate students (PhD and Masters). His team is performing leading edge research in the geotechnical and geoenvironmental fields in close collaboration with the industry, major federal and provincial governmental institutions, and international partners. Over the years, his research projects have received substantial funding from a number of agencies and private companies.
Dr. Fall is a member of several societies and has been involved in the organization of numerous workshops, seminars, and national and international conferences. He has been repeatedly invited as keynote speaker or lecturer, and regularly acts as a reviewer for scientific committees, peer review journals, and funding agencies.

Dr Stephen Wilkinson is Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD), he is the Head of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Research Cluster. Dr Wilkinson holds a PhD from Imperial College London based on his research on the analysis of the microstructure of complex nanomaterials (UK mudrocks).
Dr Wilkinson carries out guided experiments, developed tutorials and created physical models in his classroom and has also developed online materials to support virtual learning.
Dr Wilkinson has broad research interests in the fields of sustainability and environmental awareness in practice. Based on these interests he has worked on a wide range of projects encompassing contaminated land, micro-biology, tunneling, foundation design, gas flow in porous media, particle analysis and electron microscope analysis.
Prior to joining UOWD, Dr Wilkinson was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, Lecturer at Xi’an Jiaotong - Liverpool University in China, visiting lecturer at Zhejiang University, China. He also previously worked for Jacobs Engineering, Geotechnical Observations, First Steps Limited, and as an on-site engineer at the Orgreave Colliery (Active Coal Mine).

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Z. Hou is Head of Rock Mechanics, Head of China Competence Center TU Clausthal, China-Appointee of the Steering Committee

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