Recent Awards and Honors

• IPFW 2008 Summer Faculty Grant for Research, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 2008
  
  
• PRF International Travel Grant, Purdue University, 2008, 2009
  
  
• IU Overseas Conference Fund, Indiana University, 2008
  
  
• IPFW Overseas Conference Fund, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, 2007, 2009
  
  
• Travel and Participation Award , A Workshop for Women in Science and Engineering, "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" , Rice University, Houston, TX, October, 2006 (35 out of 730 applications are selected for attendance)
  
  
• Student Paper Award and Student Travel Award , UCGIS Summer Assembly, Vancouver, Washington, June, 2006
  
  
• Excellence in Research Recognition Award , Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota, June 2005
  
  
• Student Travel Award , the International Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(PAKDD), Hanoi, Vietnam, May 2005
  (One of four student awards)
  
  
• Best Paper Award , the 11th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS), 2003 (One of three best papers)
  (ACM-GIS is a major international workshop on advances in computer science for spatial database and geographic information systems with the international Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases(SSTD) and Geoinformatica journal. The workshop is changed to conference level. The current name is ACM SIGSPATIAL Interntional Conference on Advances on Geographic Information Systems.)