Prof Yannis C. Yortsos is a part of the Academic Advisory Board of Plaksha University. He is the Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering, a position he has held since 2005. Prior to that, he served from 2001 to 2005 as Associate Dean and then as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.
Prof Yortsos joined the USC faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in 1978. He served as Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering between 1991 and 1996. Since 1995, he has also held the Chester Dolley Professorship.
- Fluid flow, transport, and reaction in porous media
- Viscous flows in porous media geometries
- Phase change in porous media
- Applications to the recovery of subsurface fluids (oil recovery, soil remediation)
- Miscible flows in Hele-Shaw cells
- Vapor–liquid flow in porous media
- Transport and displacement in heterogeneous and fractured media
- Scale-up of displacement processes in heterogeneous media
- Flow of fluids with yield stress in porous media
- Darcian dynamics
- Heterogeneity identification
- Filtration combustion
- 2019 — Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles
- 2018 — Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles
- 2017 — Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles
- 2017 — National Academy of Engineering Member, Council
- 2017 — Tsinghua University Honorary Professor
- 2016 — Los Angeles Business Journal Los Angeles 500: The Most Influential People in Los Angeles
- 2016 — National Academy of Engineering Chair, Section 11
- 2015 — National Academy of Engineering Vice-Chair, Section 11
- 2014 — Ellis Island Honors Society Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- 2014 — Academy of Athens Associate Member
- 2014 — National Academy of Engineering Secretary, Section 11
- 2012 — Engineering Deans Council Chairman, Diversity Committee
- 2012 — Tau Beta Pi Eminent Member