PROGRAM

“Mineral liberation – The key to unlock the optimization problem of separation processes”

Prof. Jocelyn Bouchard
Université Laval (Canada)

Jocelyn Bouchard received a B.Eng. (materials and metallurgical engineering, 2001), M.Sc. (metallurgical engineering, 2004) and Ph.D. degrees (electrical engineering, 2007) from Université Laval. He worked at Niobec Mine, Xstrata Process Support and GENIVAR before accepting an academic position at his alma mater in 2012. He held the Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd and ArcelorMittal Mines chair in mineral processing education from 2012 to 2017. The Canadian Mineral Processors granted him the Bill Moore Special Achievement Award in 2014 in recognition of outstanding results achieved throughout the early part of his career in mineral processing. He was Visiting Scholar at the department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering of the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2019-2020. Prof. Bouchard chaired the 19th IFAC Symposium on Control, Optimization and Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing (Montreal, 2022). He is currently the director of Centre E4m, Université Laval research centre on geology and mineral resource engineering.

“Challenges of Fault Tolerant Control in the mining industry”

Prof. Ron Patton
University of Hull (UK)

Professor Ron Patton is Emeritus Professor of Control and Intelligent Systems Engineering (C&ISE) and Head of the University’s C&ISE lab. His research is involved with the development of robust methods of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for control systems and fault tolerant control (FTC) to enhance the reliability of computer control systems. Prof. Patton’s application interest is in the development and design of control and estimation methods to enhance the energy efficiency, fault tolerance and reliability of renewable energy systems in offshore wind and wave energy conversion. He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is widely published with an h-index of h-60.

“Accelerating Technology Adoption in mining sector”

Prof. Neville Plint
The University of Queensland (Australia)

Dr. Neville Plint has a global reputation in the mining sector and has broad demonstrated experience in the mining and resource industry. His career has focused on delivering improved operational performance on mining sites by developing and implementing new technologies, whilst establishing a global network of research professionals in academic institutes, mining companies and research organizations. Neville has extensive leadership experience and a deep understanding of the mining sector.

Dr. Plint was the Institute Director, Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), at The University of Queensland. Whilst at Anglo American, Neville held multiple leadership roles including Head of Business Improvement Projects, and Head of Research and Development. Dr. Plint also held positions as board member and Director of Mining3; Managing Director of JKTech Pty Ltd and a member of UQ’s University Senior Management Group (USMG).