Selected Awards and Honors

NKU CINSAM UR-STEM Grant. “How to Handle Uncertainties in Human-GIS Communication.” Proposed to NKU CINSAM/ STEM FORCE. 05/2011 – 08/2011. Amount funded: $1,400. PI.

NKU CINSAM Grant. “Knowledge Elicitation Study for a Speech Enabled GIS to Handle Uncertainties in Communication.” Proposed to NKU CINSAM. 05/2011 – 07/2011. Amount funded: $10,556. PI.

Faculty Enhancement Award, the NKU Research Foundation, Northern Kentucky University, 2008.

NKU Faculty Project Grant. “Extended PlanGraph for handling the context-dependency problem in human-GIS communication.” Proposed to NKU Research Foundation. 07/2009 – 06/2010. Amount funded: $5,075. PI.

NKU Faculty Summer Fellowship. “Extended PlanGraph for handling the context-dependency problem in human-GIS communication.” Proposed to NKU Research Foundation. 07/2009 – 06/2010. Amount funded: $6,000. PI.

Research project grant. “Electrical Load 3-D Display and Animation.” Proposed to Duke Energy, Inc., 01/2008 – 08/2008. Amount funded: $46,984. Co-PI with Jeff Ward and Michael Lively.

$500 of ESRI Student Award by the Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2005, Ellicottville, New York.

$450 of ESRI Student Award by the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004), Adelphi, MD, USA

$3000 of York Scholarship, York University, Canada, 2000 – 2001

$2500 of Student Scholarship, Department of Geography, York University, Canada, 2000-2001

First Prize in the Competition of Young Scholars’ Papers about Mapping in Beijing, P. R. China, in 1999.

First Prize in the Poster Competition by the Thirteenth International Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1999.