Arie Naftali Hawu Hede received his Bachelor of Engineering (S.T.) and Master of Engineering (M.T.) in Mining Engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. He joined the Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, ITB, as a Lecturer in 2015 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2025, where he currently serves in the Earth Resources Exploration Research Group. His research topics mainly include: remote sensing for mineral exploration (multispectral, hyperspectral, thermal infrared, and SAR), geostatistics and resource/reserve estimation, economic geology (epithermal, porphyry, laterite, REE, and tin deposits), and exploration geochemistry.