2020 Research Excellence Award on COVID-19 Epidemics, Tsinghua University
2015 Annual Award on Outstanding Achievement, Tsinghua University
2006 Superior Research Award, junior faculty category, University of Utah.
2004 Early Career Award, Remote Sensing Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers (AAG).
2001 Travel award of UCGIS Summer Assembly, Buffalo, June 20-24, 2001.
2000-2 Graduate Student Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley