Ali Daneshy is President of Daneshy Consultants International and adjunct professor in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston, where he teaches a graduate course on hydraulic fracturing.  He has over 45 years of experience in the technology and application of hydraulic fracturing and has published numerous papers on the subject.  He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Hydraulic Fracturing Journal, a quarterly publication entirely dedicated to the technology of hydraulic fracturing.  At the present time his main focus is on research, consulting and teaching short courses related to horizontal well fracturing.