Congratulations to the 2026 CaGIS Student Scholarship Winners!
The winners are as follows:
At the PhD level:
- Hao Tian (Texas A&M University) — Advisor: Heng Cai
- Xiang Li (University of South Florida) — Advisor: Yi Qiang
- Pingping Wang (Texas State University) — Advisor: Yihong Yuan
- Yifan Yang (Texas A&M University) — Advisor: Lei Zou
- Al Artat Bin Ali (Auburn University) — Advisor: Chandana Mitra
At the Master’s level:
- Md Ismail Hossain (University of Wyoming) — Advisor: Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck
Thanks to all of the applicants and the reviewers for their participation in the scholarship process!
Past Student Scholarship Award Winners
| 2026 | Ph.D. | Tian Hao (Texas A&M University) Advisor: Heng Cai |
| Ph.D. | Xiang Li (University of South Florida) Advisor: Yi Qiang | |
| Ph.D. | Pingping Wang (Texas State University) Advisor: Yihong Yuan | |
| Ph.D. | Yifan Yang (Texas A&M University) Advisor: Lei Zou | |
| Ph.D. | Al Artat Bin Ali (Auburn University) Advisor: Chandana Mitra | |
| Master’s | Md Ismail Hossain (University of Wyoming) Advisor: Jeffrey D. Hamerlinck | |
| 2025 | Ph.D. | Joynal Abedin (Texas A&M University) Advisor: Lei Zou |
| Ph.D. | Yin Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Advisor: Chunyuan Diao | |
| Ph.D. | Zhenqi (Ryan) Zhou (University at Buffalo) Advisor: Yingjie Hu | |
| Masters | Yanbing Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Advisor: Jonathan K. Nelson | |
| Masters | Chenglong Wang (Zhaoya Gong & Pengjun Zhao) Advisor: Peking University | |
| 2024 | Ph.D. | Timothy Prestby (Pennsylvania State University) Advisor: Anthony Robinson |
| Ph.D. | Binbin Lin (Texas A&M University) Advisor: Lei Zou | |
| Ph.D. | Lily Houtman (Pennsylvania State University) Advisor: Anthony Robinson | |
| Masters | Lucy Roberts (University of Oregon) Advisor: Carolyn Fish | |
| Masters | Zhaoxu Sui (University of Oregon) Advisor: Carolyn Fish | |
| 2023 | Ph.D. | Yuhao Kang (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Advisor: Song Gao |
| Ph.D. | Jinwen Xu (University of South Florida) Advisor: Yi Qiang | |
| Ph.D. | Yue Lin (The Ohio State University) Advisor: Ningchuan Xiao | |
| Masters | Barira Rashid (Arizona State University) Advisor: Stephanie Deitrick | |
| Masters | Oladunni Farinloye (Western Illinois University) Advisor: Christopher Sutton | |
| 2022 | Ph.D. | Bing Zhou (Texas A&M) Advisor: Lei Zou |
| Ph.D. | Hoeyun Kwon (University of Iowa) Advisor: Caglar Koylu | |
| 2019 | Ph.D. | Brent Dell (University of Texas at Dallas) Advisor: May Yuan |
| 2018 | Ph.D. | Amber Bosse (University of Kentucky) Advisor: Matthew Wilson |
| 2017 | Ph.D. | Carolyn Fish (Penn State) Advisor: Cynthia Brewer |
| Master’s | Daniel Stephen (Oregon State) Advisor: Bernhard Jenny | |
| Master’s | Kristen Vincent (Wisconsin-Madison) Advisor: Robert Roth | |
| 2016 | Ph.D. | Yingjie Hu (UC Santa Barbara) Advisor: Krzysztof Janowicz |
| Master’s | Kelsi Davis (University of Alabama) Advisors: Broadbent & Zambrano | |
| Master’s | Rudy Omri (University of Oregon) Advisor: Amy Lobben | |
| 2015 | Ph.D. | Bojan Šavrič (Oregon State University) Advisor: Bernhard Jenny |
| Master’s | Pai Hui Yu (Arizona State University) Advisor: Stephanie Deitrick | |
| Master’s | Annalisa Ingegno (University of Montana) | |
| 2014 | Ph.D. | Song Gao (UC Santa Barbara) Advisors: Janowicz & Goodchild |
| Master’s | Mingshu Wang (University of Georgia) Advisor: Marguerite Madden | |
| Master’s | Helena Merschdorf (University of Salzburg, Austria) Advisor: Thomas Blaschke | |
| 2013 | Ph.D. | Alexandre Bevington (University of Ottawa) Advisor: Antoni Lewkowicz |
| Master’s | John Brakeall (Florida International University) Advisor: Jeffrey Onsted | |
| Master’s | Paulo Raposo (Penn State University) Advisor: Cynthia Brewer |