Professor Kamran Esmaeili
Kamran Esmaeili is a full Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering – Lassonde Institute of Mining. He holds the Robert Smith Chair in Geomechanical Mine Design and Analysis. He has several years of industrial work experience and academic research. He has contributed to several important fields such as rock slope stability, geomechanical underground mine design, numerical modeling in geomechanics, blasting and rock fragmentation, material handling in underground mines, UAV application in mining and data analytics and machine learning applied in mining and geoscience. Dr. Esmaeili’s work experience includes several years of engineering experience and working as a consultant for various companies involved in the mining industry. His goal is to enhance the efficiency of mineral resource extraction by developing methodologies that allow continuous process control and optimization.
Email: kamran.esmaeili@utoronto.ca
Current Graduate Students
Mehdi Abdolmaleki
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: mehdi.abdolmaleki@utoronto.ca
Saleh Ghadernejad
Ph.D. Candidate
Email: saleh.ghadernejad@mail.utoronto.ca
Mojgan Faramarzi
Ph.D. Candidate
Email: mozhgan.faramarzi@mail.utoronto.ca
Somaieh Akbar
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: s.akbar@utoronto.ca
Kwame Akomeah
MASc Candidate
Email: kwame.akomeah@mail.utoronto.ca
Loghman Moradi
PhD Candidate
Email: loghman.moradi@mail.utoronto.ca
International Visiting Students
Ali Siamaki (Visiting Ph.D. student from Polytechnic University — Iran) 2015-2016
Project Title: Effect of blasting on the degradation of rock mass mechanical behaviour
Yin Yao (Visiting PhD student from Tongji University — China) 2016-2017
Project Title: Modeling blast-induced damage
Past Graduate Students
Virginie Urli — MASc, 2015
Thesis Title: An economic-geomechanical model to control ore dilution in open stope underground mining
Shabnam Aziznejad — MASc, 2015
Thesis Title: Quantification of impact-induced damage of jointed rock masses
Hesameddin Eivazy — MASc, 2016
Thesis Title: Modeling rock mass geomechanical heterogeneity using a geostatistical conditional simulation modelling
Behrouz Ohadi— MASc, 2017
Thesis Title: Investigation of the influence of heterogeneous and anisotropic nature of rock mass on blast-induced outcomes-A case study at Detour Lake mine
Filip Medinac — MASc, 2019
Thesis Title: Pit wall mapping and slope assessment using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology
Francisca Cudjoe — MASc, 2020
Thesis Title: Stochastic Slope Stability Analysis Accounting for Heterogeneity in Rock Mass
Yilin Zhao — MASc, 2020
Thesis Title: Slope Stability Analysis of Tasiast Mine using Spatially Conditioned Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Models
Mingliang Tang — MASc, 2020
Thesis Title: Advances in Heap Leach Pad Surface Moisture Mapping using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology and Aerial Remote Sensing Imagery
Mahadi Bhuiyan — Ph.D., 2021
Thesis Title: Establishing Geometallurgical Relationships Between Rock Comminution Behaviour and Rapid and Portable Drill Core-Scale Rock Characterization Tests
Thomas Bamford — Ph.D., 2021
Thesis Title: Application of Unmanned Aerial Systems to Blast Monitoring in Open Pit Mines
Peng Yang — MASc, 2023
Thesis Title: Pit Wall Geological Mapping using UAV and Deep Learning
Engin Usta — MASc, 2023
Thesis Title: Predicting Shear Behaviour of Joints Using Multi-Sensor and Manual Core Logging Data and Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Methods
Research Associates
Ali Siamaki, 2016-2018
Project Title: Effect of blasting on degradation of rock mass mechanical behaviour
Nader Ghasempour, 2017
Project Title: Predicting risk of pit wall failure using an integrated geostatistical-geomechanical approach
Undergraduate Summer Students
Rain Ferrer — BASc Candidate, Summer 2022
Evan Beri — BASc Candidate, Summer 2021
Shaan Hudani — BASc Candidate, Summer 2020
Tianyu Xu — BASc Candidate, Summer 2019
Ishan Grover — BASc Candidate, Summer 2019
Demi de Silva — BASc Candidate, Summer 2018
Tujiangjiao Wang — BASc Candidate, Summer 2018
Yaroslav Chudin — BASc Candidate, UWaterloo, Summer 2018
Stefano Girardo — BASc Candidate, Summer 2017
Ognjen Kelec — BASc Candidate, Summer 2016
Adarsh Khokal — BASc, Summer 2015
Marcela Teixeira— BASc Candidate, Summer 2015
Seung Baek — BASc, Summer 2013
Alex Chernoloz — BASc, Summer 2013
Victor Varjao — BASc, Summer 2013
Hangfei Gu — BASc, Summer 2012
Nicholas Layos — BASc, Summer 2012