Committee Member

Guangyao Si

Senior Lecturer, School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering, University of New South Wales

Dr Guangyao Si is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering. He was initially trained as a mining engineer at the top mining university in China, China University of Mining Technology. He graduated as the top student among nearly 280 mining peers in 2010. Due to his excellent academic performance, he was awarded three scholarships by Imperial College London to sponsor his PhD research under the supervision of Professor Sevket Durucan. Guangyao defended his thesis in 2015 with outstanding research outputs and then continued his work at Imperial College London as a Research Associate until the end of 2017. In December 2017, Guangyao moved from the UK to Australia to take a faculty position at UNSW. Having been studying and working for the mining industry at three different continents, Guangyao determines to devote himself to explore fundamental knowledge boundaries as well as develop industry-oriented research solutions.