• Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Headshot photo of Dr. Yao

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

    • Computational fluid dynamics
    • Numerical methods
    • Wastewater treatment
    • Desalination
    • Energy storage
    • Microfluidics
    • Porous medium flow
    • Environmental biotechnology