SusTech 2025 is pleased to announce the winners of the online Student Poster Contest held on April 20.
Our thanks to all who entered and attended to preset their posters and to the judges.

A total of nine posters were presented online, including from Uganda, Korea and Uzbekistan.

First Place Winner: “A Novel CSP–sCO? Waste Heat Recovery System for Gas Turbine Power Plants: A Techno-Economic Investigation”; Kashif Liaqat, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

Second Place Winner: “Not Trashed — Self Sorting Trashcan”; Hsu-Wei Chen, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

Third Place Winner: “Evaluating Solar Deployment Locations Using Locational Marginal Prices”; Hossein Ashrafpour, University of California Merced, Merced, California, USA

Third Place Winner: “Identifying Contextual Dependencies Between United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Targets”; Alekhya Velagapudi, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA