Kamran Mostafaei is an Assistant Professor in Mineral Exploration at the University of Kurdistan. His research interests lie at the intersection of mineral exploration, geostatistics, and artificial intelligence. He specializes in integrating geophysical, geochemical, geological, and remote sensing data for mineral prospectivity modeling and resource estimation. His recent research focuses on unsupervised and self-supervised learning, spatial data analytics, uncertainty quantification, and intelligent exploration targeting under sparse and uncertain exploration data conditions.