Dr. Li Li is a registered engineer with Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) and a professor of mining engineering at Polytechnique Montreal. He was the Head of Mining Engineering Program at Polytechnique Montreal between 2020 and 2023. He serves the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME) UQAT-Polytechnique as a Scientific Director since May 2023 (https://irme.ca/en/rime/). He has more than twenty-year experience in geomechanical and geotechnical engineering. Over the past decade, his research has mainly focused on underground mining with backfill (stress estimation in backfilled stopes, sizing barricades made of waste rock, assessing required strength of backfill with side- or base- exposure).
