**About the Editors**

## **Rajive Ganguli**

Dr. Rajive Ganguli is the Malcolm McKinnon Professor of Mining Engineering and Associate Dean of Assessment in the College of Mines and Earth Sciences at the University of Utah. He was previously affiliated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jim Walter Resources (Alabama) and Hindustan Copper Limited (India). He has three degrees in Mining Engineering, and is a registered Professional Engineer (Alaska) and a mine foreman (Alabama). He is very interested in the grand challenges of mining, from exploiting Big Data to tackling the various issues that make mine operations difficult. Over the last two decades, among other things, he has been working on computational intelligence applications in the mining industry. He has partnered with mines in the United States, Mongolia, and Mexico in developing the industrial applications of computational intelligence.

#### **Sean Dessureault**

Dr. Sean Dessureault is the Vice President of Technology and Innovation for The Mosaic Company, a leading vertically integrated fertilizer producer with mines throughout the Americas and a global distribution network. From 2002 to 2018, Dessureault was a professor at the University of Arizona, where he engaged in research related to the integration and effective use of mining information systems and sustainability. In 2004, he founded MISOM Technologies, an IT services company with expertise in data integration, control rooms, and automation. MISOM eventually developed the FARA platform, which brings together Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, a tablet-based mobile app, and modern approaches such as Big Data and gamification to create innovative form digitization, worker engagement, and fleet management. In late 2017, MISOM was acquired by MST Global, where Dr. Dessureault served as Chief Innovation Evangelist until joining Mosaic in 2019.

#### **Pratt Rogers**

Dr. Pratt Rogers is a mining professional with extensive research and business experience in data management systems, automation, mining technology, and health and safety management systems. Dr. Rogers started in a mining faculty at the University of Utah in 2016 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the University of Utah, Dr. Rogers worked as the VP of Product Development at MISOM Technologies. He has Bachelor's (2008), Master's (2012), and Doctoral (2015) degrees in Mining Engineering from The University of Arizona. He has worked as a site engineer for Luminant Mining and as a mining analytics consultant across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Dr. Rogers continues to provide data analytics consultation for various mining companies. His research interests concentrate on the reliability of data management systems in mining organizations for a variety of objectives, such as fatigue management, short-range planning, and operational excellence. Recently, Dr. Rogers has been working on a research project funded by NIOSH focused on fatigue management modeling and monitoring tools.
