2026 Gee Family SURF Poster Competition Finals

Join us for the Final Round of the Gee Family SURF Poster Competition on the San Pasqual Walk from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

The intent of the Gee Family SURF Poster Competition is to encourage and support excellence in effective scientific communication. Seven Caltech undergraduate students who completed SURF projects this past summer compete for the distinction of having the best poster presentations!

This year's Gee Finalists, along with their mentors, are:

• Lucas Garcia with Gozde Demirer (Clare Booth Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering) and Kimberley Muchenje (Graduate Student in Biology)
• William Jouayed with Emma Lessieur (Principal Investigator, Doheny Eye Institute) and Melany Hunt (Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
• Alexis Lindenfelser with Bryan Goldsmith (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Jimmy Wen (Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University), Sila Donmez (Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan), Yu-Chuan Lin (Professor of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University), and Kara Fong (Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering; William H. Hurt Scholar)
• Ethan Pichon with Benjamin Riviere (Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University) and Gunter Niemeyer (Teaching Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering)
• Trisha Sabadra with Fei Dai (Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and Katherine (Katie) Bouman (Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical Engineering, and Astronomy; Rosenberg Scholar; Investigator, Heritage Medical Research Institute)
• Efe Sakarya with Shreyas Vasanawala (Professor of Radiology; Director of MRI, Stanford Children's Hospital) and Yisong Yue (Professor of Radiology; Director of MRI, Stanford Children's Hospital)
• Danielle Sherman with William (Bill) Goddard (Charles and Mary Ferkel Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science, and Applied Physics) and Sejun Kim (Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Chemistry)

For more information, please contact Vincent Ton by phone at 626-395-2921 or by email at [email protected].