Awards

• Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC, 2016
• Disparate Data Challenge Award (Stage One: $10,000; Stage Two: University Participant Award) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), 2016
• Best Paper Award (Software and Software Environments), LeadAuthor, the Fifth National Science Foundation Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE’ 16), 2016
• George Beatty Fellowship, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, UIUC, 2012
• Student Competition 1st Prize, the First International Conference on Space, Time, and CyberGIS (CyberGIS’12), 2012