David Yin

David Zhen Yin is a Senior Research Scientist at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, where he also serves as the co-founder and program director of Stanford Mineral-X. This initiative focuses on sustainable critical minerals exploration to support renewable energy transitions. His work involves developing data-scientific methods for prediction, uncertainty quantification, and decision-making in the field of earth resources exploration and development.124

Yin has a robust academic and professional background, having previously held positions such as Research Associate at the Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project and a Chevron CoRE Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford. He earned his Ph.D. in Geosciences from Heriot-Watt University in 2016. His research interests encompass data science applications in geosciences, geological uncertainty quantification, and decision-making under uncertainty. He has contributed significantly to the field through numerous publications and has collaborated with major industry players like Chevron and Equinor.123