Mimi Dai is a mathematician who specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and complex fluids. She is a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.^[1]

Dai received her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. Her dissertation, Nematic liquid crystal systems and magneto-hydrodynamics system: The properties of their solutions, was supervised by her advisor, Maria E. Schonbek.^[2] She is currently an associate professor for the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.^[3] She specializes in partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, complex fluids.

Dai became an American Mathematical Society (AMS) Centennial Fellow in 2022.^[4] In 2021 Dai also became an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) von Neuman Fellow in 2021.^[5] Dai has been an IAS Scholar since 2022.^[6] In 2018 Dai was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for Mathematical Studies of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect,^[7] and another grant from the NSF for Mathematical Analysis of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows with Hall Effect in 2020.^[8]