**About the Editor**

**Yosoon Choi** received his BS degree at the School of Civil, Urban and Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, in 2004. He completed his PhD degree at the Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University in 2009. He then served as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA, in 2010. He has served as Professor at the Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Pukyong National University, Korea, since his appointment in 2011. His research covers the areas of Smart Mining, Renewables in Mining, AICBM (AI, IoT, Cloud, Big Data, Mobile) Convergence, Mining Engineering, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 3D Geomodeling, Operations Research, and Solar Energy Engineering.
