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GEARS Virtual Poster Presentation Winners: Summer 2022

During Summer 2022, the Global Training Initiative matched 183 students with mentoring professors at various North Carolina universities for this years virtual Global Education, Academics and Research Skills (GEARS) program. The students, who are enrolled at sixty-two different international and domestic universities, completed a 6-week intensive research project related to their field of study. In addition to learning valuable research skills, participants received GTI workshops and coaching in research methods and scientific communication as well a workshop on pursuing graduate studies in the United States. The final program component tasked students with creating an academic research poster for a virtual presentation of their work.

After scoring the presentations on a rigorous rubric, the GTI is excited to announce the winners of the 2022 Summer GEARS virtual poster competition!

2022 Summer Virtual Poster Competition

First Place: Xuehao Zang, Tsinghua University – “Real-time Tracking and Verification System of Hydrogen Carbon Intensity Based on Blockchain”

Mentor: Noah Kittner, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering – Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC at Chapel Hill

Second Place: Jiani Liu of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and Yangtian Li of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST),  – “Testing Performance of Counterfactual Data on Sarcasm and Spam Detection”

Mentor: Min Chi, Department of Computer Science – College of Engineering, NC State University

Third Place: Hongying Li of Nanjing Normal University (NNU) and Yanjing Zhang of Beijing Foreign Studies University – “The Role of Personal Experiences in Ethos Building – Take Online Teacher’s Profiles as Examples”

Mentor: Lance Cummings, English – College of Arts and Sciences, UNC at Wilmington

Honorable Mentions

  • Huijing Ye, Fudan University – “Why Buy Second-Hand Luxury? A Comparison Study between Chinese Post-90s and Post-80s Consumers”
    Mentor: Yingjiao Xu, Department of Textile and Apparel, Technology and Management – College of Textiles, NC State University

  • Runli Zhang, Beijing University of Technology – “Animation Production” in Engineering
    Mentor: Larry M. Silverberg, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – College of Engineering, NC State University

  • Zeng QingNing of Jilin University and Senwei Xie of Tsinghua University – “Serverless Edge Computing”
    Mentor: Muhammad Shahzad, Department of Computer Science – College of Engineering, NC State University

  • Yuwei Wang of Zhejiang University (ZJU) and Junyi Ren of Stony Brook University – “Initiatives for Sustainable Poverty Eradication in Different Economic Patterns”
    Mentor: Xaver Neumeyer, Department of Management – Cameron School of Business, UNC at Wilmington 

  • Zihan Wan of Northeastern University (NEU) and Jiewen Liu of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) – “Computer Vision Based Data Acquisition”
    Mentor: Andre Mazzoleni, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering – College of Engineering, NC State University

The GTI sincerely thanks our various partners for making this virtual program a possibility!

Partnering universities that provided program support and mentoring professors: 

International Partner Universities:

  • Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Central South University 
  • China Medical University
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Chonnam University
  • Chulalongkorn University and Chula International School of Engineering
  • Donghua University
  • Fudan University
  • Huaqiao University
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology 
  • Jilin University
  • Nanjing University
  • Nanjing Normal University (NNU)
  • Nankai University 
  • Northeastern University
  • Shanghai Jiaotong University
  • Soochow University
  • Southern University of Science and Technology 
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Philippines
  • Zhejiang University