[December 28, 2020] TrellisWare Co-Founder and USC Professor Keith Chugg Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow TrellisWare Technologies, Inc. today announced that the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named Keith Chugg, co-founder and Chief Scientist at TrellisWare, a NAI Fellow. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. Keith Chugg USC Photo (Photo: Business Wire) The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.