Graduate Student Awards

  • 1st Place - 2021 Carolina Data Hackathon
    2021
  • Flagship Fellowship (University of Maryland Graduate School Program)
    2023
  • NSF GRFP
    2022
  • Current Voting Member of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOTOSM)
    2022
  • Recipient of international “Community Development Mapping Grant” of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team(HOT)
    2017
  • Exchange program student of U.S. State Department's CCIP Program (2015-2016)
    2015
  • Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
    2021
  • Department of Geographical Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant
    2020
  • Anne G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
    2024
  • NASA FINESST Grant
    2021
  • GEOG Jingli Yang Fellow
    2021
  • UMD Summer Research Fellow
    2020
  • John Mather Scholarship Awardee
    2017
  • James R. Anderson Award
    2023
  • Geographical Sciences Undergraduate Research Paper Award
    2023
  • Outstanding Environmental Science and Technology Undergraduate Student
    2023
  • Outstanding Undergraduate Student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
    2023
  • AAAI 2024 Student Scholarship
    2024
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 Travel Award
    2022
  • Dean's Fellowship
    2021
  • NASA FINESST Grant
    2022
  • Florida Council for Economics Education (1st Prize & 3rd Prize)
    2014
  • The Adam Smith Prize-Villanova University
    2007
  • The Evelyn Byers Award for Philosophical Research-Montgomery College
    2004
  • Alex Fitzgerald Geospatial Analysis and Mapping (GAM) Award, University of Michigan, Dearborn
    2022
  • University Teaching and Learning Program (UTLP) Associate Level Certification
  • National Academy of Science (NAS) Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) Fellowship Grant
  • University of Lagos prize for the best All Round Performance at the degree level in dept of U.R.P
    2022
  • H.O.D's Award for Academic Excellence (Department of Urban and Regional Planning)
    2021
  • University of Lagos Endowment Scholarship Recipient
    2018
  • Travel Grant Award. AAAI'23
    2023
  • Excellence in Graduate Research Award, 1st Pace, Department of Geographical Sciences, UMD
    2023
  • 3 Minute Thesis Competition Campus-wide winner
    2023
  • NASA FINESST Grant (through May 2024)
    2021
  • BSOS Dean's Research Initiative
    2020
  • Second place in 2021 AAG-GISSG Student Honors Paper Competition
    2021
  • The 3rd Place Award of the Student Illustrated Paper Competition from the American Association of Geographers Remote Sensing Specialty Group
    2023
  • NASA IDS Grant
    2021
  • IRD ARTS Grant
    2018
  • PSL-ITI Research and Innovation Grant
    2017
  • CIHEAM-MAICh Students - Full Scholarship
    2014
  • NOAA Margaret Davidson Fellowship
    2020
  • Dean's Fellowship, Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland
    2021
  • Robert A. Harper Writing Award
    2023
  • Brian R. Melchior Endowed Research Fund
    2023
  • Brian R. Melchior Endowed Research Fund
    2020
  • Undergraduate Internship Presentation Award, First Place
    2019
  • University of Maryland, Outstanding Graduate Assistant Awards for AY 2023-2024

    2023

  • Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technologies (FINESST) Award

    2022

  • Appreciation for the Reviewers of RSE for the Calendar Year 2021 (top 10 reviewer)

    2022

  • Excellence in Graduate Research Award, Third Place
    2022
  • Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship
    2022
  • Flagship Fellowship -- University of Maryland
    2023
  • UMass Environmental Science: Outstanding Senior in Natural Systems
    2023
  • National Science Foundation, Human-Environmental and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) CAREER Graduate Research Assistant
    2022
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Graduate Research Assistant
    2022
  • Graduate Research Assistant Mentoring Award, “Analyzing Mental Health Crisis Response in the U.S. to COVID-19,” Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies
    2021
  • Organization for Tropical Studies Scholarship (2019)
  • Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, the Graduate School, UMD (AY 2022-23)
  • Environmental Mission Scholar, Vermont Law School (2021)
  • Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award
    2024
  • Excellence in Graduate Research Award (third place)
    2024
  • Jingli Yang Summer Research Fellowship
    2024
  • Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
    2022
  • NSF travel grant for S3PM-2017 conference
  • The Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant for S3PM-2017 conference
  • GIS Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, May 2022.
  • NSF travel grant for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2017 conference
  • International collaboration funding from the International Center for Innovation in Geospatial Analytics & Earth Observation
    2024
  • Dean’s Research Initiative award of University of Maryland
    2023
  • Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) during AGU 2022 Fall Meeting
    2022