معرفی
David Zhen Yin is a Senior Research Scientist and co-founder/program director of Stanford Mineral-X, a hub for resilient mineral supply chain research. He also serves as Principal Scientist at the Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting and on the US National Academies Committee for optimizing the USGS Mineral Resources Program. His work focuses on data-driven approaches for critical earth resource exploration and decision-making under uncertainty.
- Education: Ph.D. in Geosciences from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK, 2016)
Research interests include mineral supply chain resilience, geological uncertainty modeling, and applications in energy transitions. His methods have been adopted by Chevron, Equinor, and KoBold, supporting projects in Antarctica, North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and critical mineral explorations in Canada/China/US. Notable contributions include a $192.5M Series B fundraising through the Stanford-KoBold collaboration (2020-2022).
Labs/Teams: Stanford Mineral-X, Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting
