Dr. Rajive Ganguli is the Malcolm McKinnon Endowed Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Utah. He has been on the faculty since 2019. Prior to July 2019, he was a Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). He has worked as a mining engineer in a surface copper mine in India (Hindustan Copper Limited) and an underground coal mine (Jim Walter Resources) in Alabama. Dr. Ganguli has been involved in several projects in the US, Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, on topics ranging from artificial intelligence to workforce development. His current research can be found at https://mining.utah.edu/ai.sys

Dr. Ganguli was the lead architect of the Mining Engineering Research Endowment at UAF, a fund created in 2010 by Kinross Corporation to support graduate students in mining engineering. The fund, supported substantially by Sumitomo Metal Mining and Kinross, stood at over $4M in 2019. It supports several graduate students annually. Dr. Ganguli has authored the chapter "Machine Learning the Language of Safety" in the 2024 SME Mine Safety Handbook, and two chapters in the 2011 edition of the SME Mining Engineering Handbook ("Systems Engineering", "Mine Monitoring, Communications and Control"). Dr. Ganguli was inducted into the Alaska Innovator's Hall of Fame in 2017 for the development of the mill simulator. His other awards include the 2003 Carol Feist Advising award, 2005 Flame Safety Lamp award (awarded in the State of Alabama to the top mine foreman), 2004 Robert Peele from SME award, and the "Rock Star of Alaska Mining" award by Alaska Miners Association (2014).