GEARS Virtual Poster Presentation Winners: Winter 2023

During our Winter 2023 session, the Global Training Initiative matched 138 students with mentoring professors at various North Carolina universities for this year’s virtual Global Education, Academics and Research Skills (GEARS) program. The students, who are enrolled at fifty-two different international and domestic universities, completed a 5-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 as 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 2023 Winter GEARS virtual poster competition.

2023 Winter Virtual Poster Competition

First Place: Han Chen, Tsinghua University – “Canceled or Not? Machine Learning Tells You!” 

• Mentor: Hien Tran, Department of Mathematics – College of Sciences, NC State University

Second Place: Xiang Ji of Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) and Shu Bo Hu of Shandong University,  – “Run Any Machine-Learning Model in a Browser using Onnx”

• Mentor: Xu Liu, Department of Computer Science – College of Engineering, NC State University

Third Place: Yu Zhou, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) – “Impact of Commercial Banks’ ESG Responsibilities on their Financial Performance”

• Mentor: Al Chen, Department of Accounting – Poole College of Management, NC State University

Honorable Mentions

Guangzhao He of Zhejiang University (ZJU),  – “Real-time Welding Joint Detection Using Semantic Segmentation”

• Mentor: Kevin Han, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental, Engineering – College of Engineering, North Carolina State University

Tse-Hsi Chien of Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) and Shuhan Liu of China Pharmaceutical University,  – “Consumers’ Perception of Robot Services in Lodging Operations – A Case Study of Flyzoo Hotel”

• Mentor: Po-Ju Chen, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Administration – School of Business, North Carolina Central University

Yu Zhao, Northeastern University (NEU) – “Research on Corporate Crisis Communication Strategy in an Online Communication Environment – Land’s End Case Study”

• Mentor: Alice Cheng, Department of Communication – College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NC State University

Yiru Jiang, Shandong University – “Etiology of Antisocial Behavior via Bio-Psycho-Social Model”

• Mentor: Roger Narayan, Department of Biomedical Engineering – College of Engineering, NC State University

Guo YanJie of Jilin University and Zihan Wan of Northeastern University (NEU),  –“Microcystin Prediction in Lake Erie Using Machine Learning”

• Mentor: Yang Song, Department of Computer Science – College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina Wilmington

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

Partnering universities that provide program support and mentoring professors: 

• North Carolina State University (NC State University)
• North Carolina Central University (NCCU)
• The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)
• The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNC-W)
• Duke University

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
• Nagoya University 
• Nanjing Normal University
• Nanjing University
• Nankai University 
• Northeastern University
• Shandong University
• Soochow University
• Southern University of Science and Technology 
• Tsinghua University
• University of Philippines
• Zhejiang University