Xiaolong Wei is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University. He is a member of Stanford Mineral-X. He received his Ph.D. in geophysics at the University of Houston in 2022. Xiaolong focuses on addressing significant challenges associated with critical mineral exploration and leading to a step change in the discovery of new mineral deposits using geophysics joint inversion, geostatistics, and AI. He has extensive experience with field case studies, ranging from regional to drilling scales, in the US, Canada, and Zambia.