Roussos Dimitrakopoulos
Member, GERAD
Full Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University
Biography
Roussos Dimitrakopoulos is a professor of the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering at McGill University. He holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Sustainable Mineral Resource Development and Optimization under Uncertainty, and is director of the COSMO - Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory COSMO - Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory. Roussos holds a PhD from École Polytechnique de Montréal, and an MSc from the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He works on geostatistical simulation and stochastic optimization as well as artificial intelligence applications in mine planning and production scheduling, along with the simultaneous optimization of industrial mining complexes and mineral value chains under uncertainty. He has published extensively, maintaining large competitive grants from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and a long-standing partnership with AngloGold Ashanti, BHP, AngloAmerican/De Beers, Agnico Eagle, IAMGOLD, Kinross Gold, Newmont and Vale (COSMO Consortium) who support this research. He has taught and worked in Australia, North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Japan.
Research Axes
Research Applications
Publications
News
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released in November 2023 the 3rd edition of its ranking of the top 1000 scientists in several fields.
Several GERAD researchers appear in a ranking of research citations updated in October 2023 and published on the Mendeley website, a search tool belonging to Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher.
Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, released in December 2022 the 2nd edition of its ranking of the top 1000 scientists in several fields.
Events
Yassine Yaakoubi – McGill University
Mary Kang – Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering, McGill University
Amina Lamghari – Adjunct Professor, Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University
Prizes and awards
Professor among the top scientists in the fields of mathematics and engineering and technology
Elected Fellow
Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2020 and in career
Gold Medal Award
for “Adaptive simultaneous stochastic optimization of a gold mining complex”, Levinson Z, Dimitrakopoulos R, SIAMM Journal, March 2020, 120(3)Professor among the world’s most influential researchers in 2019 and in career
Mann Redmayne Medal
for the article "Globally optimising open-pit and underground mining operations under geological uncertainty", Mining Technology, 125(1), 2016Fellowship
In recognition of his work resulting in major advances in the sustainable and efficient exploitation of mineral resources worldwideWilliam Christian Krumbein Medal
Mann Redmayne Medal
Editorial Boards & Comittees
Editor-in-Chief
- Mathematical Geosciences, Springer, 2006-...
Managing Editor
- International Journal of Mining Reclamation and the Environment
Editorial board member
- Journal of the South African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, 2011-...
- Mining Technology - IMM Transactions (Taylor& Francis), 2010-...
- Mining Science and Technology (Elsevier), 2008-...