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Associate Dean (Assessment), College of Mines and Earth Sciences
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Professor, Mining Engineering
Professional Service
- ABET.
Program Evaluator.
06/01/2022 - present
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
Grant Reviewer.
11/13/2020 - 01/08/2021
- Minerals.
Role: Guest Editor.
Guest Editor for Special Issue on Computational Intelligence.
10/01/2020 - 06/30/2021
- National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.
Role: Speaker.
Webinar on research.
09/25/2020 - 12/25/2020
- National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.
Adjunct Faculty.
09/01/2020 - present
- NIOSH.
Grant Reviewer.
07/31/2020 - 08/14/2020
- Anna University, Chennai, India.
Organized a webinar on June 28, 2020, on my artificial intelligence research in mining.
06/15/2020 - 06/30/2020
- University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore, Pakistan.
Review tenure file.
01/06/2020 - 01/28/2021
- Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Journal (Springer).
Editorial Board.
07/2018 - present
Honors & Awards
- Keynote Speech.
Advanced Process Control Conference, Peru,
06/23/2023
- Designated as "Visiting Professor (Overseas)". It is an advisory role. Considered prestigious. This was unsolicited.
Anna University, Chennai, India,
01/22/2021
- Designated as Adjunct Faculty. Advisory Role primarily. Major Indian universities are seeking to connect with distinguished academics to advise them. Considered a prestigious appointment. Unsolicited.
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India,
08/28/2020
- Alaska Innovator’s Hall of Fame .
State of Alaska (Alaska State Committee on Research),
02/2017
- Rock Star of Alaska Mining.
Alaska Miners Association,
04/2014
- Flame Safety Lamp Award (to the top mine foreman).
State of Alabama,
11/2005
- Robert Peele award (for technical paper).
Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration,
09/2004
- Carol Feist Faculty Advising award.
University of Alaska Fairbanks,
05/2003
Internal Service
- Faculty Search Committee.
Member,
08/2019 - 04/2020.
Department service.
Community Partnership
- Utah Clean Energy (UCE), Utah Climate Action Network (UCAN),
University Neighborhood Partners (UNP), AethLabs, Nexus Institute, and the Superintendent of
the Salt Lake City School District.
(part of WEO project).
01/31/2022 - 01/30/2023
- Assisting (Academy for Math, Engineering & Science ) AMES Internship Class with Mock Interviews.
11/11/2020 - 11/19/2020
Outreach
- Visits to high school .
08/22/2022 - present
- Skyline High School Outreach (as part of Discover Engineering).
02/08/2022 - 02/08/2022
- Talks at Indian Hills Middle School in couple different classes.
03/11/2020 - 03/11/2020
- Participated in ACCESS (women STEM student group) activity.
07/16/2019 - 07/16/2019
In the Media
