Awards

Top 2% scientist by Stanford/Elsevier 2025
Pengcheng Peacock Distinguished Professor 2024
Smart City Technology Innovation Awards, Silver Medal, International Society of Urban Informatics (ISUI) 2023
Sameul Gamble Award, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) 2022
CJ Chair Professor, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China 2021
Talbert Abrams Award Second Honorable Mention, ASPRS 2018
Research Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering 2017
Outstanding Teaching Performance, Schulich School of Engineering 2016
Google Research Awards, Google Inc. 2016
Early Research Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering 2014
Google Research Awards, Google Inc. 2014
Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Elsevier & ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Elsevier & ISPRS 2014
Eight NAVTEQ Significant Development Awards, NOKIA 2009
Benedek Graduate Fellowships in Engineering, McGill University 2008
Vadasz Fellowship, McGill University 2006
McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA), McGill University 2006
NSERC Doctoral Scholarship PGS-D, NSERC 2006
GeoTango Award of Research Excellence, GEOIDE 2005
Best Poster Award, XXth ISPRS Congress, Istanbul, Turkey 2004