Three UH Engineers Named to National Academy of Inventors Hien Nguyen, Jeffrey Rimer and Gangbing Song Elected to Senior Member Class of 2021 Hien Nguyen is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Jeffrey Rimer is Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Gangbing Song is Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for 2021. Hien Nguyen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Gangbing Song, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are among 61 academic inventors from around the country chosen for the prestigious honor for their remarkable innovation-producing technologies and growing success in patents, licensing and commercialization.