Dr. H. Sebnem Düzgün is the cofounder of Thermofilic and professor, Fred Banfield Distinguished Chair, of Mining Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. In addition, she has a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science. She is the associate director of the GIS and Geoinformatics program and coordinator of the geoscience section of the Data Science program. Dr. Düzgün possesses extensive expertise in geosciences, resources engineering, and information technologies including AI-based mineral and geothermal exploration, systems dynamics modeling, systems safety, mineral supply chains resiliency and transparency, decarbonization and net zero carbon strategies, sustainability, machine learning, AI, virtual/augmented reality, GIS, remote sensing, mine environmental monitoring, autonomous operations, IoT and cybersecurity and workforce development. She has been recognized as one of the 100 Globally Inspiring Women in Mining for the 2020 Edition. She was appointed one of the 100 Resilience Fellows in the Engineering Program at TU Delft. She has been selected as the Newmont STEM Equity Instructional Fellow, the Mines' University Public Fellow, and the Elates Fellow at Drexel University. Dr. Duzgun is an accomplished ceramic artist and the mother of two sons.