ThinkRox Inc. | Prof. Fidelis Tawiah Suorineni

About:

Professor Suorineni (Ph.D.) is a graduate of the  Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana ((BSc (Hons) Geological Engineering); He holds a M.Sc. in Advance Rock Mechanics and Excavation Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Britain, and a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Prior to his Ph.D. studies, Prof. Suorineni was a Senior Lecturer in Rock and Soil Mechanics at the then University of Science and Technology, Kumasi School of Mines, Tarkwa (Now University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa

Prof. Suorineni is currently a Professor of Mining Engineering in the School of Mining and Geosciences at the Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan.

From June 2013 to June 2017, Prof. Suorineni was Professor and Inaugural Chair of Mine Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Mining Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia.

Prior to joining UNSW Sydney, Professor Suorineni was a Senior Research Engineer and Adjunct Professor with Sessional Professorial appointments at the Geomechanics Research Centre and Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. He played these roles from 1998 to 2013.

Prof. Suorineni is a globally recognized consultant and award-winning academic with over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and consulting in Africa, North America, Australia, and Asia. Prof. Suorineni worked with Stantec as a private consultant on various projects between 2011 and 2013 under his private consulting company, Thinkrox Inc. Prof. Suorineni was a regular member of expert panels that reviewed Vale’s mines rockburst events and provided geotechnical services to the Vale Base metal operations in Canada under the Geomechanics Research Centre (GRC) in Laurentian University.

In January 2016, Prof. Suorineni was appointed International Member of the Technical Committee on Mining Engineering of China ENFI Engineering Co Ltd. in Beijing and was reappointed in October 2019 as an International Expert of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of China Mining Innovation Beijing Engineering Research Centre. In 2016, Dr. Suorineni was also admitted as a permanent member of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) of the World Mining Congress. He is also a visiting Professor to Northeastern University in Shenyang, China, and a member of the International Committee on Mine Safety Science and Engineering (ICMSSE).

Professor Suorineni has the rare distinction of winning the Douglas Hay Medal twice for best papers published in the Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Section A): Mining Technology in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He was also co-author of a best paper published at the 13th Congress of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) in Montreal in 2015. Dr. Suorineni has published over 200 technical papers and holds two Ips.

Prof. Suorineni has given many invited lectures around the world, including in Australia, Poland, Turkey, Chile, South Korea, Ghana, China, Brazil, Japan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan.

Areas of Expertise:

• Application of existing and emerging technologies to mining (Big Data, Virtual Reality Technology, and Space Technology)
• Innovative mining systems (open stoping, block caving, pillar design, among others)
• Numerical modelling (Map3D and Rocscience Software)
• Empirical design methods
• Rockbursts and seismicity
• Ground support (including Thin Spray-on Liners (TSL))
• Rockmass classifications
• Material testing (Rock, Soil, Ground support including Thin Spray-on liners (TSL))
• Mine Auditing
• Hydraulic fracturing

Current Projects:

• Development of stope wall convergence-based design approach for subvertical narrow-vein mining systems at depth: Principal Investigator (PI):US$148,879 (01/01/2024-31/012/2026.
• Real-time seismic wave velocity determination for accurate event source locations in underground mines (Funded by Nazarbayev University Collaborative Research Program) Principal Investigator (PI): US$ 435,00 (Extended to 30th June 2024)
• Design of unconventional underground mine pillars (Funded by Nazarbayev University Faculty Development Competitive Grants), Principal Investigator (PI): US$150,000.
• Establishing a research group on geochemical modelling at Nazarbayev University. Faculty Development Grant. US$75,800.
• Establishment of Research and Education Hub to Develop Young Researchers on Mining Informatics for Sustainable Resource Development in Middle Asian Countries: Kazakhstan (Nazarbayev University), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Japan (Akita University, Tsukuba, Kyushu & Hokkaido. (Funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). US$540,000 (Continue next year) For assistance with your complex mining and geomechanics problems, Contact ThinkRox Inc. today!

For assistance with your complex mining and geomechanics problems, Contact ThinkRox Inc. today!