Dr. Vikram Rao is the Executive Director of Research Triangle Energy Consortium, a non-profit founded by prominent universities in North Carolina. He advises RTI International and several companies, including BioLargo, Biota Technology, Alchemy Sciences, Cybele Microbiome, SAGE Geosystems, and Fervo Energy. Dr. Rao retired as Senior VP and CTO of Halliburton in 2008 and chaired the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission in the past. He co-authored books on shale oil and gas methods and particulate matter. Dr. Rao holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, along with a master’s degree and a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. He is an author of over 40 publications and holds 42 US patents and foreign analogs.
