Department of Mining & Mineral Engineering

Long Fan
Assistant Professor
Mining and Mineral Engineering
Duck 319
Research Interests:
- Geomechanics with injected fluids
- Mining ground control
- Health and safety in the mining industry
- Applications of data science and machine learning in the energy industry
- Intelligent mining and automation
- Rock mechanics
- Fluids transportation and adsorption in unconventional oil and gas production
- Nano-dust characterization and its health effect
- Ventilation optimization and simulation

Tathagata Ghosh
Department Chair | Professor
Mining and Mineral Engineering
Duck 317
Research Interests:
- Computational fluid dynamics applications in mineral processing
- Numerical modeling
- Dry separation
- Advanced physical processing
- Comminution
- Population balance modeling
- Process simulation and control
- Coal preparation
- Fine particle processing
- Gravity separation techniques
- Flotation
- Agglomeration
- Advanced beneficiation technologies

Jill Riddle
Office Manager
Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
DUCK 301
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