Professor Hill is Interim Department Head, Professor and holder of the R.L. Whiting Chair in Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University. Previously, he taught for twenty-two years at The University of Texas at Austin and spent five years as an Advanced Research Engineer with Marathon Oil Company. He is the author of the Society of Petroleum Engineering (SPE) monograph, Production Logging: Theoretical and Interpretive Elements, co-author of the textbook, Petroleum Production Systems, co-author of an SPE book, Multilateral Wells, and author of over 130 technical papers and five patents. Dr. Hill is an expert in the areas of production engineering, well completions, well stimulation, production logging, and complex well performance (horizontal and multilateral wells). He has presented lectures and courses and consulted on these topics throughout the world. He has also been a Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Lecturer, has served on numerous SPE committees and was founding chairman of the Austin SPE Section. He was named a Distinguished Member of SPE in 1999 and received the SPE Production and Operations Award in 2008. He currently serves on the SPE Editorial Review Committee and is Chairman for the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference.