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About The Facilitator
Dr. Kash Sirinanda is a futurist, an engineer, a mathematician, a consultant and a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mine Connector and Elite Futurists. Prior to starting his businesses, Kash worked for McKinsey and Company in the Melbourne office, Australia.
Kash has a doctorate in mine planning and optimization from the University of Melbourne, Australia. During his PhD studies and post-doctoral work at the University, Kash developed algorithms for generating designs that maximize the net present value of a mining operation. That work provides the basis for software which assists mine planners to design more profitable mines. Kash was also a visiting scholar at the Colorado School of Mines, USA.
Kash has been working on various mining projects which include due diligence, AI, operations, analytics, optimization and digital in different commodities around the globe. He is a keynote speaker and he provides mining leaders with strategic direction, and visionary leadership.
Kash’s vision is to engage, partner, and collaborate with mining leaders and decision makers to transform a mining business into a best-in-class, advanced digital and sustainable-enabled competency company.
He constantly challenges current business models in mining companies to open possibilities for innovation and technology and to build a better future for the mining sector.
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Mining Experience Detail
• Doctorate and research fellowship in mine planning and optimization from The University of Melbourne
• A former McKinsey consultant focused on mining; mining & digital expert
• Worked on various mining projects (corporate strategy, change management, due diligence, operation, analytics, optimization and digital)
• Worked with top mining clients in Australia, the US, Canada, Peru, Chile
• Experience with commodities: gold, copper, silver, uranium, zinc, nickel, steel, aluminum, iron ore
• Expertise in the areas of digital transformation, digital strategy and implementation, advanced analytics (PdM, yield, energy, throughput optimization), value chain optimization, digital readiness assessments and sustainability assessments
• Involved with futuristic digital projects some of the clients in Australia, Chile, Peru, Russia, India
• 8+ years’ experience in mine optimization and planning
• Developed efficient algorithms to increase NPV for underground mines and implemented them in mines in Western Australia, and Nevada, US
• Improved NPV by 44% of the mines by using my efficient approaches
• Worked in Colorado School of Mines, USA (ranked #1 in the world for mining engineering) and helped them to solve their mine-scheduling problems
• Worked in optimization projects in mines in New South Wales, Victoria, Australia by helping them stope optimization, mill-to-port optimization, end-to-end value chain optimization
• Worked on a short project using theory of constraints to analyze bottlenecks throughout the value chain of a mine in Western Australia which led to a 30% of improvement in their profit
• Expertise in mine planning software by solving real mine case examples: Whittle, Vulcan, Deswick
• Active member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) mining committee and the Melbourne mining club. Helped them to organize mining innovation talks by brining leaders from top mining companies
• Led a team of mining engineers to win mining games in Australia. Mining games consist of actual day to day of mining work such as mucking, blasting, drilling, surveying, gold panning, sawing etc.
• Guest speaker and poster judge for top mining conferences in Australia
• Supervised PhD and Master students in the mining engineering department by providing guidance and support during my role as a research fellow in the Melbourne University
• Developed algorithms for generating designs that maximize the NPV of a mining operation. This work provides the basis for software that will assist mine planners to design more profitable mines
Recent talks
• Mining Investment Asia conference in Singapore 27th March 2018
• Keynote: "True grit: an essential ingredient for futuristic mining!"
• Presentation: "A mining company is not an IT company. Or is it?"
• Panel: "Diversity in mining"
• Mining International Congress of Technological Innovation in Peru 29th March 2019
• Keynote: "A vision for a futuristic mining company!"
• Western Australia mining client: designed and implemented an underground connector to connect two underground gold mines to maximize the NPV (case study in PhD thesis chapter
• Mine in Nevada (one of the top gold producers in the world): leveraged my mine scheduling algorithms to design a decline to maximize the NPV for an underground mine
Publications
• Optimally locating a junction point for an underground mine to maximise the Net Present Value. ANZIAM J., 55:C315-C328, 2014
• Maximizing the net present value of a Steiner tree. Journal of Global Optimization, 62(2):391–407, 2015
• Strategic underground mine access design to maximise the Net Present Value. Ore Body Modelling and Strategic mine planning SMP 2014. 235-242
• Gradient constrained discounted Steiner trees I: optimal tree configurations. Journal of Global Optimization, pages 1–17, 2015
• Gradient constrained discounted Steiner trees II: optimally locating a discounted Steiner point. Journal of Global Optimization, pages 1–18, 2015
• Underground mine access design to maximise the Net Present Value. International Mining And Resources conference IMARC 2014 (best student poster)
• Optimally Locating Multiple Junction Points for an Underground Mine to Maximise the NPV. International Mining And Resources conference IMARC 2015
• Time delayed discounted Steiner trees to locate two or more discounted Steiner points, ANZIAM Journal 57, 253- 267
• Minimal curvature-constrained networks, Journal of Global Optimization
Dr. Kash Sirinanda is a futurist, an engineer, a mathematician, a consultant and a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mine Connector and Elite Futurists. Prior to starting his businesses, Kash worked for McKinsey and Company in the Melbourne office, Australia.