Jinwang Zhang, Professor and PhD Supervisor. He serves as the deputy head of the Department of Intelligent Mining Engineering in School of Energy and Mining Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing. He was selected as CAST's "Young Talent Promotion Project" and awarded "Sun Yueqi Youth Science and Technology Award", "Green Mine Youth Science and Technology Award" among others. His research focuses on green and intelligent mining of thick coal seams and has presided over 2 NSFC projects, 1 Beijing NSF project, and 2 China Postdoctoral Science Fund projects. He has published 3 academic works, 57 SCI/EI papers in RMRE, IJRMMS and IJMST etc. and hold 33 national invention patents, 11 software copyrights. The research results have awarded 15 provincial and ministerial awards. He also serves as the deputy director of Coal Industry Engineering Research Center of Top-coal Caving Mining and Sino-Türkiye Research Center for Thick Coal Seam Mining.

Selected 10 papers are as follows:

[1] Zhang Jinwang, He Geng^*, Yang Shengli, et al. Enhancing in-situ coal-gangue identification in LTCC mining via secondary surfactant intervention and infrared thermography[J]. International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2026, 36(6): 1249-1274.

[2] Zhang Jinwang, Wan Xiaohang, Yang Shengli^*, et al. A theoretical model for drawing body in sublevel top coal caving mining and its validations [J]. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, 2026, 18(3): 1992-2014.

[3] Zhang Jinwang, Zhang Yipeng, Yang Shengli^*, et al. Theoretical and experimental investigation on top coal drawing mechanism considering overburden pressures in longwall top-coal caving[J]. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2025, 58(3):2901-2927.

[4] Zhang Jinwang, Wang Fengchen, He Geng^*. Interfacial thermal engineering via surfactant modulation for precision coal-gangue identification: A case study based on coal gangue samples from Jiaozuo, China[J], Construction and Building Materials, 2025, 493, 143263.

[5] Zhang Jinwang, Cheng Dongliang, Wang Jiachen^*, et al. Improving recovery in sublevel top coal caving mining by using partially reverse drawing technique[J]. International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2024, 34(12): 1655-1676.

[6] Zhang Jinwang, Zhang Yu, He Geng^*, et al. Wind speed effect on infrared-image-based coal and gangue recognition with liquid intervention in LTCC[J]. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2024,478: 143925.

[7] Zhang Jinwang, Cheng, Dongliang, Yang, Yinchao, et al. Numerical and theoretical investigations of the effect of the gangue-coal density ratio on the drawing mechanism in longwall top-coal caving[J]. International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 2022, 9: 31.

[8] Zhang Jinwang^*, Han Xing, Cheng Dongliang. Improving coal/gangue recognition efficiency based on liquid intervention with infrared imager at low emissivity[J], Measurement, 2022, 189, 110445.

[9] Zhang Jinwang^*, Wang Fengchen, Wei Weijie^*. Collector-assisted efficient coal/gangue recognition based on liquid intervention in longwall top coal caving. International Journal of Coal Preparation and Utilization. 2023,43(12):2065-2090

[10] Zhang JW, He G, Wang JC, et al. Theoretical calculation model of top coal drawing body in horizontal sublevel top coal caving mining. Journal of China Coal Society，2023,48(02):576-592. (In Chinese)

Contact: Jinwang ZHANG, Professor

Department of Intelligent Mining Engineering

School of Energy and Mining Engineering

China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing)

Ding 11 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, P. R. China

Email: zhangj@cumtb.edu.cn ; jinwangzhang@hotmail.com

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