Dr. Amanda C. Mills is a fusion designer and project coordinator in the Nano-EXtended Textiles (NEXT) research group within the College of Textiles at NC State University. Her focus is on developing innovative methods for electronics integration into textiles. She creates full system demonstration platforms to examine the impact of the textile on the device and vice versa. For example, this has included system level electronic designs and knit structure designs for human energy harvesting and physiological sensing.