Carlos Torres-Verd?n is an associate professor of the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a B.S. degree in Geophysical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute of M?xico, a M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Geoscience from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Carlos Torres-Verd?n has published on the topics of electromagnetic geophysics, numerical simulation, inverse theory, reservoir characterization, and 3-D reflection seismology. He has been teaching at UT since 1999, prior to which he worked 2 years for the oil company YPF S.A., in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and 5.5 years for Schlumberger-Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut.