Kambiz Vafai

Kambiz Vafai is a mechanical engineer, inventor, academic and author. He has taken on the roles of Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of Bourns College of Engineering Online Master-of-Science in Engineering Program at the University of California, Riverside.

Vafai is most known for his pioneering work in phenomenological description, modeling and analysis for single and multiphase transport through porous media. He is a highly ranked scholar on Research.com and ScholarGPS and has been named in Elsevier/Stanford's list of World's Top 2% Scientists multiple times. His publications include journal articles and books such as ''Porous Media: Applications in Biological Systems and Biotechnology'' and the ''Handbook of Porous Media''. Additionally, he is the recipient of the 75th Anniversary Medal of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Heat Transfer Division in 2013, the 2006 ASME Memorial Award, and the 2011 International Society of Porous Media (InterPore) Honorary Lifetime Membership Award.

Vafai is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), the World Innovation Foundation, and Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has taken on the roles of Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of Porous Media and Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media'', Editor of International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and has held positions on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ''International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer'', ''International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer'', ''Numerical Heat Transfer Journal'', ''International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow'', ''Experimental Heat Transfer Journal'', and editorial board of the ''International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow''. Provided by Wikipedia