Yi Hui Tee is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD in aerospace engineering and mechanics from the University of Minnesota in 2021, where her doctoral research delivered one of the first experimental quantifications of finite-size sphere rotation, together with three-component translational motion in a turbulent boundary layer, advancing our understanding of particle-turbulence and particle-wall interactions.
Following her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from 2021 to 2025. During her time at NTNU, she was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Union for her research on plastic transport in the ocean.