Ajay Kumar Jha

Ajay Kumar Jha is working as Vice President and Head of International Centre of Excellence, Mining Technology, EMIL, Aditya Birla group. He also serves as member of commission on rock dynamics, International Society of Rock Mechanics. He has previously worked in Coal India Limited for twenty three years and worked in Indian institute of Technology, Kharagpur for more than one year in Department of Mining Engineering. His research interest is primarily in Rock Fragmentation, Ventilation,...See more

Ajay Kumar Jha is working as Vice President and Head of International Centre of Excellence, Mining Technology, EMIL, Aditya Birla group. He also serves as member of commission on rock dynamics, International Society of Rock Mechanics. He has previously worked in Coal India Limited for twenty three years and worked in Indian institute of Technology, Kharagpur for more than one year in Department of Mining Engineering. His research interest is primarily in Rock Fragmentation, Ventilation, Blasting & Explosive Engineering, Demolition, Implementation of Numerical modeling and Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Mining. He has published 40 papers, 5 applied research projects funded by Government of India as Project leader and completed work on two books. He serves as an editor for Vistotak journal. He has also been awarded Coal India Technical Excellence in 2012 for his valued contribution to company. He has two patents on his name as key patenter. See less