Graduate Research Assistant

• Researching RCT Repair Scaffold/Product Development.
• Searching papers from databases like Web of Science, PubMed, Willy, etc.
• Looking for Standards from AAMI, ISO, ASTM, etc. and scanning, refining and importing paper selected into RefWorks
• Writing a literature review with more than 30 primary references.
• Drawing tables to compare and summarize the opinion from different papers.
• Conducting tests on the scaffold according to standards like ISO, AAMI, ASTM and analyzing results.
• Conducting cell culture
• Reporting the result to the advisor routinely and discussing the following step.
North Carolina State University Summer Study Tour Program (Textiles), Jul. 2019
• Participated in Summer Program about American Textile and Culture.
• Visited many companies and organizations like Cotton inc., American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
(AATCC), American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA).
• Completed courses and lectures from global training initiative and Wilson College of textiles faculty and students about
Global culture, Marketing, Branding, Apparel, Textile Industry, Fashion, Dyeing, Merchandising, Production Planning,
Weaving, Sourcing, Supply Chain Management, Textile Design, and visited much equipment.
• Made two final projects (sustainability and program reflection) with PowerPoint presentation in two 3-person teams.
Summer Intern, Shanghai Qingning Environmental Planning and Design Co., Ltd., Summer 2018
• Collaborated with multiple companies (30 companies for me and other 4 group members in 2 days) at different scales for acquiring and crowdsourcing environmental pollution data.
• Maintained followed-up communications by telephone questionnaires.

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Yifan Mao: Graduate Research Assistant

Yifan Mao

NC State University, Wilson College of Textiles

Donghua University, College of Textiles

North Carolina State University, Wilson College of Textiles