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• AITAA Distinguished Alumni Award (2007) for Academic and Research Excellence, Asian Institute of Technology.

• Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing Specialty Group - AAG, 2007.

• Listed in Who’s Who in the World (Marquis Who’s Who– 2007).

• Listed in Who’s Who in America (61 st edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America – 2007).

• Listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (9 th edition of Marquis Who’s Who – 2006-2007).

• Listed in Who’s Who in America (60 th diamond edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America – Oct. 2005).

• Listed in Who’s Who in American Education (7 th edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America – Dec. 2005).

• CPGIS Scholar, 2005, selected by the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science Abroad (CPGIS) to give lectures and research presentations at Jiangxi Normal University and Hubei University as part of the CPGIS Young Scholar Summit.

• Runner-up for the Early Career Award, 2004, AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group.

• CSISS Scholarship (Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) to attend 2003 Geographically Weighted Regression workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara.

• Intergraph Young Scholar Award (UCGIS). 2002 UCGIS Summer Assembly, University of Georgia, Athens.

• USGS Scholar Award. First International Conference on GIScience, 2000, Savannah, GA, USA.

• Consultant (GIS) to World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland (1999).

• Best Student Paper Award (AAG - Remote Sensing Specialty Group - 2001 annual meeting).

• Best Student Paper Award. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) – Mid-South Region Meeting at Clemson University, South Carolina, 2000.

• Best Student Paper Award (UCGIS-2000). (2000 UCGIS Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon). Forty-two GIS/RS Graduate students from different Disciplines/Departments and Universities across the United States participated in the competition.

• Best Poster Presentation Award (1998 - 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

• AAG - Otis Paul Starkey Dissertation Research Award. Association of American Geographers, 2001.

• William G. Haag Award (2001). Most outstanding paper in professional meetings, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, LSU.

• Second Place Student Paper Award. 2000 South Western Division AAG meeting, Texas A&M University.

• Second Place Student Paper Award. 1999 South Western Division AAG meeting at Texas State University, San Marcos.

• Robert C. West Field Research Award (November, 2000). Department of Geography, LSU.

• Student Oral Paper Presentation Award and Travel Award, UCGIS-2000. UCGIS Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon.

• Graduate School Scholars Enhanced Assistantship Award and Tuition Award, (9,000 US$, 1999 - 2001), LSU (1999 - 2001).

• Graduate School Travel Awards (3 awards): Graduate School, Louisiana State University [(October, 1999), (April, 2000), (October, 2000)].

• Best Student Award. 87th Public Service Officers Training Course (No. 87), Myanmar, 1987.

• Best Student Award. Basic Officer Training Course No.1 – Myanmar Timber Enterprise, Ministry of Forestry.

• Netherlands Government's Fellowship. Post Graduate Diploma studies at ITC, the Netherlands (1988 - 1989).

• French Government Scholarship. M.S. - Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1993 - 1994).