AWARDS

 NSF: Engineering Research Center Planning Grant (Award #1840435) - 2018-2019
Center for Data for Socio-Physical Extreme Event Resilience (Data-SPEER)

DHS: Maritime Security Research - 2018

DHS: VACCINE Tools for Plugfest - 2018

UNSA NEXUS: Arequipa Sustainable Viticulture and Enology Center (ASVEC)- 2018–2020

DHS: SMART for Augmenting First Responder Situation Awareness - 2017–2019

DHS: Improved Disaster Management through Innovative Social Media Analytic - 2017–2022

Queensland Government: Advance Queensland Research Fellowship - 2017
Improving the communication of disaster information in Queensland communities                                           

Australian Government: Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - 2015–2016
Optimizing Government Spending for Remote Air Services in Australia and Abroad

TRB: ACRP University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs- 2015
1st Place: Funding Essential Air Service to Small Community airports through Data Driven Decisions

Institute of International Education: Boren Fellowship to Japan - 2013–2014
Scholarship: The Role of Critical Aviation Infrastructure in the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Response

Japan Student Service Organization Scholarship: Exchange to Japan - 2012–2013
Scholarship: The Role of Critical Aviation Infrastructure in the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Response

National Industries for the Severely Handicapped - 2008
1st Place: National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design

German Academic Exchange Service: RISE - 2008

Invited Talks

2019 Spring Lecture Series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, 04 March 2019.

College Business Research Seminar Series, Prairie View A&M University, TX, USA, 01 March 2019.

Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 January 2019.

“Social Media Analytics for Disaster Management,” Prairie View A&M Industry Day, Prairie View, TX, USA, 12 April 2018.

“Floods, Tornadoes, and Disaster Resilience,” Purdue Policy Research Institute, West Lafayette, IN, USA, 06 November 2017.

“Increasing Situation Awareness through Social Media: The Shift from One-Way Distribution to Two-Way Communication for Emergency and Disaster Information,” House of Sweden – Future Incident Scene and Future First Responder, Washington D.C., USA, 03-04 October 2017.

“Soft Mitigation in Areas of Reoccurring Natural Disasters: Floods in Queensland, Australia and the Volcanic Eruptions of Mt. Merapi in Yogyakarta, Indonesia,” Indonesian National/Regional Disaster Management Authorities, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 14 October 2016.

“The Best Ways to Spend Resources for Disaster Management,” Guardian Disaster Management User Group Conference, Gympie, Australia, 24 August 2016.

“Novel Subsidy Structures from Remote, Rural, and Regional Airports Outside Australia,” Regional Airport Development, Brisbane, Australia, 08 March 2016.

“Funding Essential Air Service to Small Community Airports through Data Driven Decisions,” Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., USA, 17 July 2015.

“Improving Remote Air Transportation Subsidies through Data Driven Decision Making,” 9th National Aviation Systems Planning Symposium, Charleston, SC, USA, 17 May 2015.