David joined DSI in 1998 and through this time has worked in various engineering and technical management roles within the business – across manufacturing, product design and numerous ground support applications. David is currently DSI Underground’s Business Development and Strategic Projects Manager, facilitating key expansion initiatives and strategic partnerships for the Australian business unit. David is the Asia Pacific representative for DSI Underground’s global technical network and manages the Australian intellectual property portfolio. David holds a Degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Joung Oh is an Associate Professor in the School of Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering experienced, mainly in United States and Australia, on rock mechanics, tunnelling support system, and numerical modelling. Currently, he teaches and researches primarily in the area of mining geomechanics. His research interests include tunnelling and underground space development, coupled behaviour of rock discontinuities, ground-structure interaction, and rock mechanics for caving mechanism. He completed his PhD degree in civil engineering with emphasis on geotechnical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UNSW in 2013, he was employed at Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) in New York City, US as a professional (registered) engineer.

Mohammed's research focus is on the development of the fundamental constitutive theories to characterize, understand and predict complex multi-physics phenomena in clay-rich deformable porous media e.g. shales. He uses theoretical, experimental and numerical techniques to understand complex coupled processes at multi-scales. Such constitutive theoretical exposition can be useful in a wide range of engineering-scale applications such as shale water loss, wellbore instability, nuclear disposal, and CO2 storage. Mohammed holds a Ph.D. in Minerals and Energy Resources Engineering (Petroleum Engg.) from UNSW Sydney and Masters and Bachelors degrees in Petroleum Engg. from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia.

Peter graduated from the UNSW in Sydney Australia in 1980. He worked for ACIRL Ltd and Coffey Partners International. Then from 1993 he spent 12 years at Mt Charlotte Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie focusing on practical issues including seismicity and stope stability. He was a key player in mine safety, accident investigation, and risk management. In 2005 Peter formed Mikula Geotechnics, a geotechnical consultancy working in underground hard rock mining, mainly seismicity and dynamic capable ground support. He pioneered an empirical charting method for confident selection of dynamic ground support in seismic environments. He authored or co-authored over 50 professional papers.

Mingwei Chen has a BSc Engineering and MSc Engineering from the China University of Mining and Technology. They are currently a PhD student working in the University of New South Wales and majoring in Mining Engineering. Their main research area includes the impacts of UCM on groundwater and their interactions.