Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail received the B.Sc. degree in geophysics from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 1988, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in geophysics from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. He is a Professor of geophysics at the Geosciences Department, KFUPM. He founded and directed the industry-funded Near Surface Seismic Investigation Consortium at KFUPM from 2006 to 2008. In addition to journal and conference papers, he is the coauthor of several books and the coinventor of several USPTO Patents. His research interests include near-surface effects on petroleum seismic data, seismic investigation of fractured reservoirs, and ground penetrating radar. Dr. Al-Shuhail is an Active Member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, and the Dhahran Geoscience Society.