Dr. Angelina Anani is currently an associate professor at the University of Arizona. She holds a BS (Summa cum laude) and PhD from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Mining Engineering. She has over 12 years of research and teaching experience. Her research expertise is in modeling and optimization of mining systems, mine planning and production scheduling, design and management of sustainable mining systems, mine equipment reliability studies,  energy and water efficiency, ethnographic research in mining, application of machine learning in mining, 3D mining planning, mining supply chain, etc.