William Xu

PhD candidate Stanford University

William Xu is a PhD Candidate in Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He is a member of the Mineral-X research group, which has a broad focus on applying data science and AI to make critical mineral supply chains more resilient and sustainable in collaboration with industry partners. In his research, William has developed a general computational framework for using AI to optimize mineral processing operations under uncertainty. He is working to apply this framework to improve phosphate feedstock blending in Morocco and copper flotation circuit design in Zambia. He holds an MPhil in Micro- & Nanotechnology Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and a BS in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University.