- Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Affiliated Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-3593
- Email: yyao@tamu.edu
- Office: DLEB 402G
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University – 2021
- M.S., Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Stanford University – 2021
- M.S., Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University – 2017
- B.Eng. (First Class Honours), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore – 2015
Research Interests
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- Computational fluid dynamics
- Numerical methods
- Wastewater treatment
- Desalination
- Energy storage
- Microfluidics
- Porous medium flow
- Environmental biotechnology