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Appointments

Assistant Professor, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM: 08/2024 – present

Assistant Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK: 08/2018 – 08/2024

 

Education

Ph.D., Department of Mining Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2018

M.S., Department of Mining Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2013

B.Tech., Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India, 2006

 

Research Interests

• Mine Health and Safety
• Subsurface Ventilation
• Geostatistics
• Automation and Control
• Coputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling of Mine Environments
• AI/ML Applications in Mining
• Digital Transformation in Mining

 

Teaching Areas

• Introduction to Mining Engineering
• Engineering Surveying
• Statistics
• Geostatistics and Mineral Evaluation
• Mine Ventilation
• Occupational Health and safety
• Operational Research and Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry
• Mine Planning and Design
• Senior Design Project
• Statics
• Dynamics
• Fluid Mechanics