Awards and Honors:

• 2008 Mapping & GIS Lab Award, The Ohio State University, 2008

• Nomination Award for 2008 National 100 Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation, China, 2008

• Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation of Hubei Province, China, 2007

• Excellent Graduate Award, Wuhan University, China, 2006

• Wang Zhizhuo Award for Creative Students, Wuhan University, China, 2005

• Best Paper Award, China Academic Forum for GIS, 2004

• Scholarship for Excellent Graduate Student, China Highway Society, 2003

• Excellent Graduate Award of Hunan Province, China, 2000 and 2003