Focus Areas
Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems
- Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
- Kwangmin Kim – dust control
- Jaeheon Lee – metal recycling from e-waste
- Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
- Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse
Geophysical Sensing Techniques
- Gail Heath – resistivity, electrical methods
- Moe Momayez – electrical resistivity
- Ben K. Sternberg – ground-penetrating radar, electrical methods
Mine Health and Safety
- Moe Momayez – heat stress monitoring, mine ventilation
- Brad Ross – risk analysis, safety
Mineral and Chemical Characterization
- Isabel Barton – electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, hyperspectral sensing, ore deposit characterization
- John Kemeny – lidar, contact probe scanning
- Kwangmin Kim – hyperspectral sensing, lidar
- Jinhong Zhang – atomic force microscopy
Mineral Processing, Geometallurgy and Extractive Metallurgy
- Isabel Barton – process mineralogy, geometallurgy
- J. Brent Hiskey – hydrometallurgy, leaching kinetics, electrochemistry
- Jaeheon Lee – bioleaching, bio-oxidation, hydrometallurgy, novel lixiviants
- Jinhong Zhang – comminution, flotation chemistry
Mine Technology and Automation
- John Kemeny – image analysis, software implementation
- P.H.S.W. Kulatilake – neural networks
- Moe Momayez – smart mining, distributed sensor networks, machine learning
- Victor Octavio Tenorio – mine planning, automation, fleet optimization
Rock Strength, Fracturing and Excavation
- John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
- Kwangmin Kim – fragmentation, excavation, tailings containment
- P.H.S.W. Kulatilake – slope stability
- Brad Ross – geotechnics, slope failures
Sustainable Mining and Development
- Moe Momayez – renewable energy, energy efficiency
- Rosa Rojas – diversity in mining
- Brad Ross – artisanal mining, community engagement, sustainability