Professional experience
Yina Mo is a Technology Specialist in the Boston office of Fish & Richardson. Her practice emphasizes patent prosecution in the mechanical and electrical arts, particularly medical devices, computer hardware, and software. Dr. Mo has prior experience as a research assistant at Harvard University (2003-2007) and also as a research assistant at the University of Science and Technology of China (2001-2002). Additionally, Dr. Mo was a teaching fellow at Harvard University (2003-2006).

Selected publications
"Electronic Nature of Step-Edge Barriers against Adatom Descent on Transition-Metal Surfaces," with W. Zhu, E. Kaxiras, and Z. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 216101 (2008).

"Semiconducting cyanide-transition-metal nanotubes," with E. Kaxiras, Small, 3, 1253-1258 (2007).

"Formation of monatomic Fe chains on vicinal Cu(111) surfaces: An atomistic view," with J. Guo, E. Kaxiras, Z. Zhang, and H. H. Weitering, Phys. Rev., B 73, 193405 (2006).

"Kinetic pathway for the formation of Fe nanowires on stepped Cu(111) surfaces," with E. Kaxiras, and Z. Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett., 94, 155503 (2005).

"Sulfur point defects in crystalline and amorphous silicon," with M. Z. Bazant, and E. Kaxiras, Phys. Rev., B 70, 205210 (2004).

"Distillation of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state from arbitrary tripartite states," with C. Li, and G. Guo, Phys. Rev., A 65, 024301 (2002).

Bar admissions
Has limited recognition under 37 CFR 11.9(b) to represent Fish clients in patent matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Additional information
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.