Dr. Javad Sattarvand, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, at the University of Nevada, Reno since 2015. Dr. Sattarvand has received his Ph.D. in Mining Engineering from the University of Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen – Germany in 2009. With 17 years of academic appointments as a lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor in the USA, Germany, Netherlands, and Iran and supervising 34 master and 5 Ph.D. students, he is the teacher for mining automation and mining robotics courses at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Sattarvand has published 29 journal and over 80 conference papers and has received over three million dollars of federal grants, mostly from NIOSH in the past few years. He has been also the recipient of the prestigious SME’s career development grant ($300K). Dr. Sattarvand’s industrial expertise is in optimization of different mining applications, mine monitoring, and mine control systems. He has founded three start-up companies and his cooperation with major global consulting companies resulted in more than 20 industrial projects and the commercialization of several software and hardware products for mining automation.