H. Sebnem Duzgun is a full professor, Fred Banfield Distinguished Chair, and Associate Department Head of Mining Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. She is the associate director of the GIS and Geoinformatics program and coordinator of the geoscience section of the Data Science program. She also leads the mineral supply chain pillar of the Mines Global Future Initiative. She obtained her Ph.D. in mining engineering from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, in 2000. She held a visiting scholar position at MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from 1998 to 1999. In 2001, she was appointed as an assistant professor in the Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies Program at METU. From 2004 to 2005, she served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute and International Center for Geohazards. In 2006, she resumed her position at the Department of Mining Engineering at METU as an associate professor. In 2010, she achieved the rank of full professor. She conducted research at the Geophysical Institute at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany from 2015 to 2016. Since 2017, she has been a Colorado School of Mines faculty member. She specializes in a wide range of areas, including systems dynamics modeling, systems safety, mineral supply chain resiliency and transparency, decarbonization and net zero carbon strategies, sustainability, big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.