Dr. Adel Asadi is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, in the Doerr School of Sustainability. He earned his B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering (2016) at Tehran Science and Research Branch, IAU, Iran; his M.Sc. in Mining Engineering (2020) at Michigan Technological University, USA; and his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a Geosystems specialization from Tufts University in 2023. He is an affiliate member of the Mineral-X Initiative, a program dedicated to pioneering sustainable critical mineral exploration to facilitate the transition to green energy. Dr. Adel’s research is focused on mineral exploration, leveraging data science tools and artificial intelligence algorithms. Through integrated geological data analysis, his goal is to enhance the predictive accuracy of models for discovering high-grade mineral deposits, thereby enabling decision-making with greater certainty.