Dr. Amalendu Sinha is MSc App. Geology, MSc (Tech) Mineral Exploration, PhD (App. Geology), from ISM, now IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and retired as Director, CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research in July, 2015. His main area of research was Rock Mechanics and Geotechnology. He is recipient of various awards, published a large number of papers in journals and conferences and have some patents to his credit. He is a reviewer of many reputed journals.
Prof. Bhabesh C. Sarkar, a renowned Geostatistician having 45 years of professional experience with a strong blend of industry and academics, is a Professor of Applied Geology at IIT Bombay in the Department of Earth Sciences. He obtained his five-year Integrated M.Sc. Applied Geology from IIT Kharagpur in 1980 and PhD & DIC in Mining Geostatistics from Imperial College London in 1988. He has over 125 research publications in journals and proceedings of repute, 5 books, 3 book volumes and 6 patents to his credit.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar Mandal is Chief Scientist and Head of Mining Methods & Geomechanics Division, CSIR-CIMFR, Dhanbad & Professor, AcSIR, India. He graduated in Mining Engineering from BE College (now IIEST), Shibpur in 1993, did MTech from IIT Kharagpur & PhD from BESU (now IIEST), Shibpur. He has over 30 years of R&D experience in rock mechanics & mining, having over 160 publications and executed more than 190 projects. He is editorial board member & reviewer of several reputed journals.