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Awards

Awards & Honors

YearAward
2026UCGIS I-GUIDE Community Champion
2025UT Libraries’ Paul E. Trentham, Sr. Library Partner Award
2024Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award
2024Graduate Teaching Award, Department of Geography & Sustainability, UTK
2023Google Open Source Peer Bonus Award
2023International Geospatial Innovation Award, UK Ordnance Survey
2022CPGIS Innovation Award
2022Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Earth Engine
2022Early Career Research Award, College of Arts and Sciences, UTK
2022Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Honorable Mention
2020Global Young Scientist Award, World Geospatial Developers Conference
2018AI for Earth Microsoft Azure and Esri Award, Microsoft & Esri
2017Top 1% of Peer Reviewers in Multidisciplinary, Publons
2017Harpur College Teaching Award -- Best Instructor of Graduate Classes, Binghamton University
2017AAG Research Grant Award, American Association of Geographers
2016Sentinel of Science Award (Top 10% of reviewers in Earth and Planetary Sciences by Publons)
2015Finalist, Honors Competition for Student Papers, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, AAG
2013Robert Bruce McNee Award for Outstanding Academic Achievements, University of Cincinnati
2013First Place, Graduate Poster Forum Award, University of Cincinnati
2012Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati
2012Excellent Graduate Research Award, GIESN Center, University of Cincinnati
2012Student Travel Grants, International Geographic Information Fund (IGIF), AAG
2010First Place, Student Paper Competition, GIS Specialty Group, AAG
2010Second Place, Student Poster Competition, OhioView SATELLITES Geospatial Technology Conference