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The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named two engineering faculty members from Texas A&M University to its 2021 class of NAI Senior Members.
The two new senior members are from the College of Engineering:
- Dr. Saurabh Biswas, associate professor of practice, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and executive director for commercialization and entrepreneurship, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station.
- Dr. Roozbeh Jafari, Tim and Amy Leach Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators from NAI member institutions with success in patents, licensing and commercialization. They have produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. The 2021 class includes 63 accomplished academic inventors who are named on 625 issued U.S. patents and who represent 37 NAI member institutions, research universities, governmental entities and nonprofit institutes worldwide.
The title of NAI Senior Member was established in 2019. The selection of Biswas and Jafari brings the number of current Texas A&M faculty members who are NAI Senior Members to 11. In addition, 13 current Texas A&M faculty members are NAI Fellows.
“Congratulations to Dr. Biswas and Dr. Jafari for earning this distinction,” said Vice President for Research Dr. Mark A. Barteau, an NAI Fellow. “Also, thank you to the NAI for recognizing the innovations of our outstanding A&M faculty members in the ongoing quest for solutions that better the human condition and address our world’s most challenging problems.”
NAI is a member organization comprising of U.S. and international universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes with more than 4,000 individual inventor members and fellows spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide.