Carlos Torres-Verdin is the Zarrow Centennial Professor in Petroleum Engineering, and Frank W. Jessen Professor in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Texas Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department. He has over 25 years of applied and research experience in the areas of well logging, formation evaluation, integrated reservoir characterization, nonlinear optimization, and inverse theory. He also serves as the Program Director of the Formation Evaluation Joint Industry Research Consortium. Dr. Torres-Verdin’s industry experience includes working as a development engineer for the Mexican Petroleum Institute where he developed computer algorithms for the processing and interpretation of gravity, magnetic, and seismic data.