Rob Millar, Ph.D., P.Eng. (BC, ON), P.Geo. (BC), has over 30 years of consulting and applied academic experience in hydrologic design, river engineering, mine water management, dam safety, and erosion and sedimentation. He has a wide range of industry and academic experience in Canada, the United States, Australia, South America, Romania, and Turkey working in water management and infrastructure design, flooding, sedimentation, and environmental impacts related to metalliferous and coal mining, forestry, and hydropower industries.

From 1996 until 2011, he was a Professor of Hydrotechnical Engineering at the University of British Columbia where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in open channel hydraulics, engineering hydrology, river sedimentation, and computational modelling. During this time he supervised 20 Master’s and 7 Ph.D. students and published over 70 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters.