External Grants
NSF Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP). Co-PI (with PI Di Yang). Project: BoCP-Design: US-China: Linking Organisms, Mechanisms and Processes for Supporting Standardized Biodiversity Monitoring During Alpine Treeline Shifts under Global Climate Change ($500,000).
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Minority Research Grant Program (MRGP). Co-PI (with PI Ayodeji Iyanda, Co-PIs Xinyue Ye, Temilola Salami, and Dongying Li). Project: Investigating the combined impact of spatial social networks and environmental exposure on minority youths’ mental health in the context of COVID-19 ($200,000)
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NSF Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment (HDBE). Co-PI (with PI Rui Liu, Co-PIs Shigang Chen, Yixin Wei, Jeffery Lindsey). Project: Improving Evacuation Situation Awareness and Decision Making: A Smart eVacuation Emergency Real-time System (SAVER) ($450,000)
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U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) University Transportation Centers (UTC). Co-PI (PI Xing Wu; Co-PIs Qianwen Guo, Xinyue Ye, Subasish Das, Bahar Dadashova, and Yueqing Li) Center for Transportation Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability (CTIRS) ($2,000,000).
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NSF Data Analytics that are Robust and Trusted (DART) Seed Grant. Sole-PI. Project: CI: AI-supported Cyberinfrastructure for Scalable Flood Resilience Assessment ($96,000)
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NASA SMD Computational and Information Sciences and Technology Office. Co-PI (with PI Di Yang). Grant #80NSSC21M0177. Project: Assessing and Qualifying Citizen Science Labeling for Training Data for GLOBE Observer Mosquito and Land Cover Protocols Improving Data Quality within the GLOBE Observer Community ($93,824).
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NASA EPSCoE Research Infrastructure Development (RID). Co-PI (with PI Yaqian He and Co-PI Matthew Connolly). Grant #80NSSC19M0066. Project: Quantifying impacts of irrigation and the consequent climate variability on crop yield in North Arkansas. ($40,000).
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Travel Grant, Japan Local Organizing Committee to the International Cartographic Association, for the participation in the bi-annual International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2019). (¥100,000)
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Travel Grant, U.S National Committee (USNC) to the International Cartographic Association, for the participation in the bi-annual International Cartographic Conference (ICC 2019). ($2000)
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Internal Grants
The SPARC Graduate Research Grant, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, University of South Carolina. Co-PI. Funded project: A Deep Learning Supported Flood Mapping Framework that Integrates Remote Sensing and Social Sensing. ($5000)
Teaching Resource Development Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina. ($750)
2019
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
IEEE Young Professional Rising Star
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Second Place in Student Paper Competition, the 42nd of the Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, NC, October 23rd-25th. ($100)
Breakthrough Graduate Scholar, University of South Carolina.
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Departmental Breakthrough Graduate Scholar Nominee, Department of Geography, University of South Carolina.
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Second Place in Robert Raskin Student Paper Competition, American Association of Geographers (AAG) Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG), Washington, DC, April 3-April 7.
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Second Place in Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG) student paper competition, American Association of Geographers (AAG), New Orleans, LA, April 10-April 14. ($200)
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First Place Student Paper Award, the 25th International Conference on GeoInformatics, Buffalo, OH, August 3rd. ($500)
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Outstanding investigator, Lake management and protection in City of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, April 15.
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Outstanding engineers, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, September 03.
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