Dr. Mukul M. Sharma holds the “Tex” Moncrief Chair in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He served as Department Chair from 2001-2005. Sharma has a Bachelor of Technology in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and an MS and PhD in chemical and petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California. He has published over 450 journal articles, conference proceedings and 21 patents. Dr. Sharma is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, and Honorary Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), recipient of the John Franklin Carl Award and Lucas Gold Medal, SPE’s highest technical awards. He is also a recipient of SPE’s Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award, Lester C. Uren Award and Formation Evaluation Award. He has served as an SPE Distinguished Lecturer, on Editorial Boards of many journals, taught and consulted for companies worldwide.