Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan is the new vice president of the National Academy of Inventors. In his new role the Fulton Schools professor and executive vice president of Knowledge Enterprise Development and chief research and innovation officer at ASU will help shape the future of the NAI, a coalition of more than 250 national and international universities and government and nonprofit research institutes. A prolific inventor, Panchanathan has been granted several patents and copyrights and published almost 450 papers in prominent research journals and research conference publications.