Yaofa Li

Dr. Yaofa Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Prior to joining UCR, he was an Assistant Professor at Montana State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2015 and completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Notre Dame, where his research was jointly supported by Notre Dame and the energy frontier research center, GSCO2. Dr. Li’s research interest focuses on developing experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies of thermal-fluid problems primarily at microscopic scales with applications in multiphase flow, biological flow, and phase change heat transfer. He is a recent recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award (MSU 2021, 2023), the Doctoral New Investigator Award (ACS, 2021), the NASA EPSCoR R3 Award (2022) and the NSF Career Award (2022).