Awards
2017-2022
Department of homeland security (DHS) Awards
Improved Disaster Management through Innovative Social Media Analytic (2017-2022)
SMART for Augmenting First Responder Situation Awareness (2017-2019)
VACCINE Tools for Plugfest (2018)
2018 - 2020
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) NEXUS
Arequipa Sustainable Viticulture and Enology Center (ASVEC)
2018-2019
National science foundation (NSF) Award
Engineering Research Center Planning Grant (Award #1840435)
Center for Data for Socio-Physical Extreme Event Resilience (Data-SPEER)
2017
Queensland Government
Advance Queensland Research Fellowship
Improving the communication of disaster information in Queensland communities
2015 - 2016
Australian Government
Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Optimizing Government Spending for Remote Air Services in Australia and Abroad
2015 - 2016
Transportation research board (TRB)
ACRP University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs
1st Place: Funding Essential Air Service to Small Community airports through Data Driven Decisions
2013 - 2014
Institute of International Education
Boren Fellowship to Japan
Scholarship: The Role of Critical Aviation Infrastructure in the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Response
2012 - 2013
Japan Student Service Organization Scholarship
Exchange to Japan
Scholarship: The Role of Critical Aviation Infrastructure in the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Response
2008
National Industries for the Severely Handicapped
1st Place: National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design
2008
German Academic Exchange Service
RISE

Talks
04 Mar 2019
Spring Lecture Series
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
01 Mar 2019
College Business Research Seminar Series
Prairie View A&M University, TX, USA
25 Jan 2019
Stockholm Resilience Center
Stockholm, Sweden
12 Apr 2018
Social Media Analytics for Disaster Management
Prairie View A&M Industry Day, Prairie View, TX, USA