Negin Houshmand (CivE PhD candidate) received two awards at the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) event, CIMBC22 Convention & Expo, in Vancouver.
Houshmand was awarded The Canadian Rock Engineering society award for Innovative Rock Engineering Research and second place in the Student Poster Competition at CIMBC22 for the poster titled Rock Hardness Prediction Using Geophysical and Geochemical Data and Machine Learning. Her co-supervisors are CivMin’s Prof. Kamran Esmaeili and Prof. Sebastian Goodfellow.
“There’s industry interest in the hardness prediction using our model in an app format,” Houshmand says, “I am so thrilled.”
