Xin Wang, Ph.D, Professor, P.Eng in Ontario, Canada. Used to work as a mining and geomechanics specialist of Itasca Consulting Canada Inc (ICCI), a senior research engineer and research engineer at MIRARCO Mining Innovation. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in natural resources engineer (mining engineering) and got his PDF (post-doc fellow) in rock mechanics, Bharti School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Canada. Dr. Wang jointed School of Resources and Civil Engineering as a Assocaite Professor at NEU since June, 2021.

    Prof. Wang has more than 15 years of research and engineering consulting experience. His professional fields include advanced numerical simulation, development and application of specific modules of Itasca’s software, modelling services in complex underground mining environment, laboratory experiments and field technical services (i.e., in-situ stress measurement, dynamic ground support design). He has research and consulting experiences in the fields of hard rock mining, coal mining and civil engineering. Dr. Wang mainly focused on the excavation stability analysis for the jointed rock mass using DFN modelling, multi-scale DFN-DEM coupling analysis, rock burst and dynamic ground support design for underground coal mining and hard rock mining, and seismic wave propagation analysis in underground mines. He participated in many research and consulting projects, which spanned China, Canada, US, Indonesia, Congo, Chile, Kazakhstan, etc. The projects covered a wide range of mining geomechanics such as backfill design in coal and metal mines, caving modelling, Rebop flow modelling, 3DEC rock fragmentation, ground motion anlysis, rockburst monitoring and prevention, SUMIT smart underground monitoring technology, application of discrete fracture generation tool MoFrac, nuclear waste deep underground treatment, short- and long-term stope and drift stability analysis of underground mines, and selection of mining method.

    Prof. Wang has published many journal and conference papers and presented the research results in international conferences. Currently, he is a member of the International Society of Rock Mechanics, the American Society of Rock Mechanics, and the CIM. He published more than 30 journal and conference papers  such as International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Tunneling and Underground Space Technology, Computers and Geoscience, Computers and Geotechnics. He is also a reviewer of several international SCI and domestic journals (i.e., RMRE, Soil Mechanics). In addition, Dr. Wang also has experience in simultaneous and interactive translation. He served as a translator for government delegations lead by the China Ministry of Emergency Management and other mining company delegations from China.