2012 SPE President Ganesh Thakur, distinguished professor of petroleum engineering and director of Energy Industry Partnership at the University of Houston (UH) was named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Thakur joined UH in 2016 after almost 4 decades of industry experience at Chevron. He is a pioneer in carbon capture, utilization, and storage. His patent on forecasting performance of water injection and enhanced oil recovery using a hybrid analytical-empirical methodology provided a much faster approach and served as an alternative to more time-consuming reservoir simulation. Under his leadership at UH, researchers have performed extensive research on reservoir management and a carbon-capture-and-sequestration pilot project for Oil India. The NAI is a member organization comprising US and international universities, and governmental and nonprofit research institutes. It was founded in 2010 to recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the US Patent and Trademark Office.