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Research

Honors, Awards and Scholarships Received by Lab Members

  • H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellow: Qunying Huang (2024)
  • Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List (by Stanford University): Qunying Huang (2022)
  • Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award: Qunying Huang (2022)
  • Microsoft AI for Earth Award: Qunying Huang (2020)
  • Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence Faculty Fellow: Qunying Huang (2016)
  • The 1st International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Computing Best Paper Award: Qunying Huang (2015)
  • Next Generation of Hazards & Disasters Researchers, National Science Foundation: Qunying Huang (2014)
  • CyberGIS Fellow, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IL: Qunying Huang (2014)
  • Outstanding Graduate Student, George Mason University: Qunying Huang (2012)
  • Student Best Paper Travel Award, UCGIS: Qunying Huang (2011)
  • AAG CISG Student Best Paper Award: Qunying Huang (2010)
  • Presidential Scholarship, George Mason University: Qunying Huang (2007- 2010)
  • Graduated with Honor, Central South University : Qunying Huang (2004)
  • Best Undergraduate Thesis, Central South University: Qunying Huang (2004)
  • AAG- Remote Sensing Specialty Group: Tang Sui (2025, Student Paper Competition Finalist); Bo Peng (2020, Student Poster Competition Finalist, competition canceled due to COVID-19 )
  • CaGIS Map Design Competition: Atlas Guo (2025, Honorable Mention of David Woodward Digital Map Award; 2023, Best Print Map; 2021, Honorable Mention)
  • Wisconsin Land Information Association (WLIA): Atlas Guo (2025 1st Place in Thematic Map, 1st Place in Black & White Map, 2nd Place in Reference Map, 2nd Place in Mapping Poster, Best Student Map (sole); 2024 and 2021, Best Student Map; 2024, 1st Place in Most Unique Map, 1st Place in Black & White Map, 2nd Place in Thematic Map, Keynotes Choice of Static Map (sole), President’s Choice (sole); People’s Choice (sole))
  • UW-Madison Commencement Flag bearer of College of Letters & Science for the Doctoral, MFA, and Medical Professional Degree Candidate Ceremony: Meiliu Wu (2024)
  • UW-Madison: Meiliu Wu (2024, Capstone Teaching Award)
  • American Association of Geographers (AAG) Student Travel Award & Grant: Meiliu Wu (2024, $500; 2023, $500; 2022, $300)
  • AAG Travel Grant for Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure Workshop: Meiliu Wu (2024, $650)
  • Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) Student Grant: Meiliu Wu (2024, $1,000)
  • Iowa State University GIS Day: Atlas Guo (2025, Winner (sole) in Map Category, Mapping Masterminds Competition)
  • British Cartographic Society: Atlas Guo (2024, Highly Commended, Collins Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping & Infographics, 2nd place; 2024, Commended, Garsdale Design Award for 3D Mapping, 4th Place)
  • Arizona Geographic Information Council: Atlas Guo (2024, Winner of Student Project, 1st place)
  • North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) Conference: Atlas Guo (2024, Winner in Research Map, 1st place; 2023, Best Cartographic Design Award)
  • GIS Colorado: Atlas Guo (2024, GISCO Mapping Contest, 1st place of Student Artistic Section)
  • AAG-CyberInfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG): Bo Peng (2011, Finallist), Meiliu Wu (2023, 1st, $300)
  • AAG-Geographic Information Science and Systems (GISS) Specialty Group: Meiliu Wu (2023, 2st, $450)
  • University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Meiliu Wu (2023, Student Best Paper); Atlas Guo (2024, scholarship travel award)
  • UW-Madison Annual Digital Salon: Atlas Guo (2024, 2nd Place (tie) / Honorable Mention; 2023, 2nd Place / Honorable Mention)
  • AAG- Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group: Meiliu Wu (2022, 2st, $450), Atlas Guo (2021, Travel Award)
  • AAG- Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group: Bo Peng (2021, Best Paper), Mingda Wu (2023, Best Paper)
  • American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) William A. Fischer Memorial Scholarship: Bo Peng (2020, $2000)
  • Applied Machine Learning Summer Research Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory: Bo Peng ( 2020, $14,600)
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL Travel Grant: Songxi Yang (2024, $1000), Meiliu Wu (2022, $1000), Bo Peng (2019, $1000), Zonglin Meng (2019: $1000)
  • International Conference on Geoinformatics Best Student Competition: Meiliu Wu (2021, 2st, $500)
  • International Graduate Workshop on GeoInformatics Best Participation Award: Meiliu Wu (2021)
  • Esri User Conference: Atlas Guo (2024, Most Innovative Map, 1st place; 2024, Best Cartography Award; 2024, Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award; 2024, 1st Place of Student Maps; 2023, Most Innovative Map, 1st place; 2023, Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award; 2020, Top 2 ranked maps out of 600+ submissions)
  • Geography, UW-Madison: Xinyi Liu (2018, Petchenik Graduate Award), Bo Peng (2021, Olmstead Award for Outstanding Publication; 2019, Graduate Student Research Grant), Xinyi Liu (2021, Whitebeck Graduate Dissertator Award, $11,000), Meiliu Wu (2021-2024, Trewartha/Odebolt Graduate Research & Travel Award, $4000)

Grants

  • 2023: Developing a GeoAI Foundation Model for Global Flood Extent Mapping, PAII Inc Research Lab. 1/1/2024 – 12/31/2024, $50,000/yr. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2023: Potential Impact of Florida SB264 – Agricultural Land, Critical Infrastructure and Military Installation Zone Mapping and Analysis, Chinese American Legal Defense Alliance (CALDA), 5/1/2024 – 6/15/2024, $4680. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2022:  DSFAS-AI: Developing an Integrated Deep Learning Modeling Framework for County-Level Crop Yield Prediction in support of USDA NASS Operation, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 1/1/2022 – 6/1/2024, $649,786 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. Zou Zhang
  • 2020:Fusing Social Media Data and GeoAI for Disaster Event Detection, Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award, UW-Madison, 6/1/2020 – 6/1/2022, $89,272. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2020: Self-Supervised Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Real-Time Large-Scale High Definition Flood Extent Mapping, Microsoft AI for Earth Grant, Microsoft, 6/1/2020 – 6/1/2022, $30,000 (Co-PI). PI: Bo Peng
  • 2019: CoPe EAGER: Collaborative Research: A GeoAI Data-Fusion Framework for Real-Time Assessment of Flood Damage and Transportation Resilience by Integrating Complex Sensor Datasets, National Science Foundation, 1/1/2020 – 1/1/2022, $299,709. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2019: Contextualized Daily Prediction of Lapse Risk in Opioid Use Disorder by Digital Phenotyping, National Institute of Health, 8/1/2019 – 6/30/2024, $3,416,728 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. John Curtin
  • 2017: Risk-based Assessment and MANagement (RAMAN) Online Visualization Tools for Health of Bluff, Beach, and Nearshore Environments on Wisconsin’s Coast, NOAA Sea Grant, 02/01/2019 – 02/01/2021, $142,000 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. Chin Wu
  • 2017: A 3D Visualization System for Human Mobility Study Using Online Footprints, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), 04/01/2018 – 06/30/2019, $39,270. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2016: EPIGRIDS: Electric Power Infrastructure and Grid Representation in Interoperable Data Sets, Department of Energy, 08/10/2016 – 11/09/2019, $1,476,000 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. Christopher L. DeMarco
  • 2016: Resource Demand Estimation for Effective Disaster Response Using Crowdsourcing Data, WARF, 09/01/2017 – 09/01/2018, $46,765. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2015: Evaluation of Big Data Containers for Popular Storage, Retrieval, and Computation Primitives in Earth Science Analysis, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 06/01/2015 – 06/01/2017, $50,000. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2015: Developing an Intelligent System for Disaster Situational Awareness Based on Social Media, WARF, 07/01/2015 – 06/30/2016, $31,979. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2014: Developing a Cloud-enabled Interactive Mapping System for Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), WEDC, 06/01/2014 – 06/01/2015, $10,000 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. Howard Veregin
  • 2012: ESIP Testbed: Cloud Cost Model, Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), 09/01/2012 – 08/30/2013, $5000. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2011: Cloud Enable GEOSS Clearinghouse, Microsoft, 06/01/2011 – 05/30/2012, $100,000 (Co-PI). PI: Dr. Chaowei Yang
  • 2010: Geospatial Cloud Processing, ESIP student funding, 09/01/2010 – 08/30/2011, $3000. PI: Qunying Huang
  • 2009: GeoCloud Initiative, Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), 09/01/2009- 08/30/2010, $30,000 (Co-I). PI: Dr. Chaowei Yang