His specialists are about open pit and underground mining, mine management, operation research and optimization in mine operations, computer applications in mining, open pit design, decision making, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithm applications in mining. He is the author of four books titled ‘Underground mining’, ‘Dimension stone extraction’, ‘Multi criteria decision making’ and ‘Fuzzy Multi criteria decision making’. Dr. Ataei has published 50 Journal Papers and more than 120 conference papers. He is currently holding 2 patents. He is married and has 1 child.