Awards by Lab Members

  • 2023/05: Seraj Mostafa, PhD Student Research Award, IS Student Research Symposium, Department of Information Systems, UMBC.
  • 2023/05: Omar Faruque, 2nd place, PhD/Postdoc Completed Research Track, IS Student Research Symposium, Department of Information Systems, UMBC.
  • 2023/05: Xin Huang, Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2023, UMBC Graduate School.
  • 2022/12: Sahara Ali and Jianwu Wang, MT-IceNet – A Spatial and Multi-Temporal Deep Learning Model for Arctic Sea Ice Forecasting. Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE/ACM 9th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2022).
  • 2022/12: Jorge López González, Kathryn Chen, Nithya Navarathna and Joseph Clark (REU students), Xingyan Li, Sahara Ali (PhD students), Travel Award, The 2022 IEEE/ACM 9th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2022).
  • 2022/08 – 2023/07: Xingyan Li, Graduate Fellowship, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) II. Research project title: Deep Learning based Cloud Mask Retrieval for the Future NASA PACE Mission in collaboration with NASA scientists.
  • 2022/08: Sahara Ali, Travel Award, The 38th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2022).
  • 2022/04: Sahara Ali, 2nd place, PhD/Postdoc Completed Research Track, IS Student Research Symposium, Department of Information Systems, UMBC.
  • 2022/04: Xingyan Li, 2nd place, PhD/Postdoc Work-in-progress Research Track, IS Student Research Symposium, Department of Information Systems, UMBC.
  • 2021/12: Dr. Pei Guo (PhD’21), finalist of the BenchCouncil 2021 Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • 2021/11: Xin (Starly) Wang, Xin Huang, Sahara Ali, Xingyan Li, Seraj Mostafa, IEEE Big Data 2021 Travel Award.
  • 2021/11: Sahara Ali, ESIP Community Fellow to help bridge the gap between informatics and Earth science.
  • 2020/05: Wenbin Zhang, Dissertation Fellowship, Summer 2020, UMBC Graduate School.
  • 2020/04: Dr. Jianwu Wang, NSF CAREER Award to help climate scientists make discoveries from massive, complex data sets
  • 2019/05: Dr. Jianwu Wang, Early-Career Faculty Excellence Award, UMBC.
  • 2019/8 – 2020/07: Pei Guo, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) Fellow.