Guang Xu is an associate professor of mining engineering at Missouri S&T. Dr. Xu has expertise in fire safety and particulate matter monitoring and control. He is currently working on a project sponsored by NIOSH to investigate the fire risks of BEV in underground mines. Dr. Xu established the Ventilation, Safety and Health Lab (VSH Lab) at Missouri S&T, and currently manages a group with 5 graduate students and two postdoc fellows. He has sponsored research funding of over $850,000 from both federal agencies and industry sponsors. Before joining Missouri S&T in 2019, he worked as a faculty at Curtin University in Australia for 6 years. He obtained his PhD from Virginia Tech, and B.S. from China University of Mining and Technology.
Tom Dubaniewicz is a General Engineer with the NIOSH Pittsburgh Mining Research Division. He is principal investigator of a research project on mitigating fire and explosion hazards of lithium ion batteries. He is a U.S. representative on an International Electrotechnical Commission standards committee for explosion-protected equipment. Tom is a licensed Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.
Liming Yuan is a Lead Research General Engineer at Mining Systems Safety Branch of Pittsburgh Mining Research Division (PMRD), NIOSH. His research at NIOSH focuses on mine fire prevention and control including characterization of mine fires using real-time atmospheric monitoring data, engineering design of mine fire protection and atmospheric monitoring systems, spontaneous combustion of coals in longwall gob areas, equipment fire prevention and suppression, and smoke control and management in underground mine fires. Recently, he has been working on lithium-ion battery thermal runaway and battery fire suppression.
Michael Pecht is a professor and the founder and director of CALCE (Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering) at the University of Maryland, which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than US$6M/year. He is currently serving as editor-in-chief of Circuit World. He served as editor-in-chief of IEEE Access for 6 years, as editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Reliability for 9 years, and as editor-in-chief of Microelectronics Reliability for 16 years. He has also served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two U.S. Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. FDA. He consults for 22 major international electronics companies, providing expertise in strategic planning, design, test, prognostics, IP and risk assessment of electronic products and systems.
Jun Xu is an assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His group focuses on the safety issues of energy storage systems through sophisticated multiphysics modeling, advanced materials and structures design, and novel experiment device development. Dr. Jun Xu now serves as the Executive Committee of Advanced Energy System Division, Chair of Energy Conversion & Storage Committee, and Chair of Multifunctional Materials Committee, American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME). He is the Founder and Chair of Automotive & Battery Safety Conference (ABSC). He has so far published more than 110 peer-reviewed papers in top journals with more than 3400 citations, H-index=32.
Kamal M. Aljazireh, PE, is an industrial process safety and fire protection consultant based in Chicago with experience in hazard analysis and evaluation, hazard mitigation techniques and requirements, code compliance studies, and specification of fire and explosion protection features for various industrial applications. His experience focuses on developing fire and explosion risk reduction solutions for industrial processes handling hazardous materials as well as applications in lithium-ion battery technology such as energy storage systems, electric vehicle plants, and battery assembly/testing.
Charles Mborah is the Battery Electric Vehicles Manager at Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions. Prior to his current role, he held the roles of Senior Reliability Engineer with Kinross Gold Corporation, USA; Process Reliability Engineer with Barrick Gold Corporation, USA, Business Analysts with Charter Communications, USA, and as a Quality Engineer with JHENT Engineering Consult, Ghana. He obtained his PhD in mining engineering and MS in geology and geophysics from Missouri S&T, Rolla, USA in May 2016, and May 2018, respectively.
Blaine Sprouse is a BEV Support Specialist with Sandvik. In his current role, he works directly with the Sandvik factories, management, technicians, and customers on projects/trials. Prior to the current role, he served the field service group specifically for BEV equipment. He delivered the first Z-50 to Turquoise Ridge, helped grow and establish the project as the trial progressed. Before working at Sandivik, he worked for LockHeed Martin Space, Barrick, and served in the US Navy.
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