Yuksel Asli Sari

Affiliation

Queen's University

Biography

Yuksel Asli Sari, P.Eng. is an Assistant Professor at the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. She received BSc, MEng and PhD degrees from McGill University. With her background in computer science, she focuses on computer applications in the mining industry. She has developed tools for open pit mine planning (finding pit limits, block extraction sequencing and block routing) and stope optimization (stope layout planning, stope sequencing). Also, she has designed mathematical models for dig-limit optimization, open pit mine planning with landfilling option and to determine the stope limits. She has worked on developing machine learning approaches to dynamic haul truck dispatching, pillar stability in cave mining, predictive maintenance scheduling and decarbonizing grinding circuits. She has taught the courses “Applied Data Science”, “Applied Machine Learning” and “Introduction to Programming for Engineers” to students from mining engineering and other engineering backgrounds. Her research interests include short term and long term underground and surface mine planning, data analytics and machine learning applications in mine optimization and mine automation.