International Student Awards

We are proud to showcase our award-winning students who have received international recognition either as individuals or as a team of students and faculty working together on publications, posters or projects.

YearStudentAwardChallenge/Fellowship/Conference
2024Rohit Khati, David HansenWinnersDevpost hackathon: ML4Earth - Foundation Models for Earth Observation
2024Parinda PanoonListed under top 10 Global Semi-Finalists from over 11,000 registrantsEY Open Science Data Challenge Program 2024
2024Felix Kröber1st placeYoung talent award (Karl‐Kraus‐Nachwuchsförderpreis 2024) DGPF - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie, Fernerkundung und Geoinformation. For 'Master's Thesis: Agricultural parcel delineation based on multitemporal Sentinel-2 data – a comparison of machine learning and deep learning approaches for instance segmentation. Masterarbeit.
2024Stephanie Tumampos (alumna)Nomination '10 women shaping the earth sciences'Radiant Earth: Cloud-Native Geo Pioneers in Earth Science: Honoring the 2024 Leading Women
2024M. Aragon, C.M. Arellano, J. Gomez GomezTrack Submission of an Idea "Thermopolis"EUSPA Cassini Challenges
CASSINI is the European Commission's initiative to support entrepreneurs, start-ups and SMEs in the space industry, including New Space, during 2021-2027
2023M. Sudmanns, L. Ligono, H. Augustin, L. Meer & D. TiedePoster award"An advanced framework for semantic querying of the dynamic world dataset". BiDS23, Big Data from Space 2023, 6-9 November 2023, Vienna Austria
2023Saad Ahmed Jamal, Arioluwa AribisalaBest short paper & travel awardData Fusion for Multi-task learning of building extraction and height estimation.' GeoMundus 2023, Oct 20-21, Castellón, Spain
2023Lisah Ligono, Yanika Dontong, Parinda Panoon1st placeML4Earth Hackathon 2023. ML4Earth- Physics-aware Machine Learning Hackathon. Using physics-aware machine learning to model and forecast flood events. Sep 22 – 25, 2023
2023Parinda Panoon3rd placeInnovation Solving PM2.5 Problem Hackathon 2023 in Bangkok, hosted by YouTHful Issue organization
2023Lisah Ligono, Yanika Dontong, Parinda Panoon1st placeTech Optimum Hacks 2023, 25-27 August, 2023, organized by Tech Optimum
2023Lisah Ligono, Yanika Dontong, Parinda Panoon2nd placeSTEMist Hacks 2.0 Think. Hack. Build. Repeat. Fully Virtual and Online, 21st-23rd July, 2023
2023Lisah Ligono, Yanika Dontong, Parinda Panoon2nd placeForesight DRM: Disaster Mapping Hackathon on 21-22 April, organized by Global Geo-Intelligence Solutions Ltd.
2023Lydia LetaruYouth Mapper FacilitatorYouthMappers Leadership Summit. It is from 3-13 January, Montego Bay, Jamaica
2022Lisah Ligono, team AIOFAR Regional Prize Madrid/SpainCopernicus Masters
2022Lisah Ligono, Yanika Dontong, Parinda Panoon3rd placeML4Earth Hackathon 2022. Crop yield prediction with remote sensing and machine learning and exploring relations with explainable AI. Nov 25 – 27, 2022
2022Max Aragon, Carla Mae Arellano, Oscar Narvaez, Jose Enrique Gomez GomezSpace4Energy Hackathon 2022 winnerChallenge Space4Thermal by Kelag Energie & HAKOM Time Series
2022Edgar ManriqueConference Student GrantLiving Planet Symposium 2022, May 23-27, Bonn
2022Nianhua LiuHonorary awardCYBERCARTOGRAPHY Competition 2022, AGILE, ICA, and ISPRS
2022Max AragonSubak Fellowship award2022 fellowship to generate annotated sky imagery dataset to boost dev’t of cloud detection & solar nowcasting models
2021Nianhua LiuBest short paper & Mapathon awardThe overview, outcome and outlook of GIS-based football visualization’. GeoMundus 2021, Nov 26-27, Lisbon, Portugal
2021Stephanie TumamposISDE Society Youth Ambassador nominationISDE (International Society for Digital Earth) appreciation award 21
latest update: March 19, 2024