Texas A&M Professors Honored as 2023 National Academy of Inventors Fellows

Two professors at Texas A&M University have been named 2023 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI): Dr. Mark Benden, School of Public Health, and Dr. Balakrishna Haridas, College of Engineering.

The NAI is an organization of U.S. and international universities, government agencies and nonprofit research institutes, and was founded in 2009 to recognize and encourage inventors with U.S. patents.

The 2023 Class of Fellows is comprised of 162 academic inventors; election as a fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.

This year’s fellows will be honored and presented medals at the NAI 13th Annual Meeting on June 18 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

With the addition of Benden and Haridas, there are 19 current Texas A&M faculty who are NAI Fellows, as well as 15 current faculty who are NAI Senior Members.