Faculty Profiles

Dr. Soe Win Myint

Professor - Endowed Chair at Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies, College of Liberal Arts

Award / Honor Recipient: Fellow of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). December 5, 2024 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG). January 1, 2024 - Present

Award / Honor Recipient: John Jensen distinguished lecture at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting (2024) – Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), American Association of Geographers (AAG). October 31, 2023 - April 20, 2024

Award / Honor Recipient: World’s top 2% most influential scientists in their respected research categories, Stanford University/Elsevier. January 1, 2019 - Present
Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Water, Environment, and Clean Energy. June 1, 2019 - December 31, 2019
Award / Honor Recipient: Keynote speaker - 2019 conference banquet of the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Prairie Division. September 27, 2019 - September 29, 2019

Award / Honor Recipient: Commencement speech delivered at the 129th Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Graduation Ceremony. May 18, 2018

Award / Honor Nominee: Nominated for the Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award (given to tenured and tenure-track faculty members). January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Achievement Award (American Association of Geographers (AAG) - Remote Sensing Specialty Group). March 29, 2016 - April 2, 2016

Award / Honor Recipient: American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) Conference Management Award. April 26, 2010 - April 30, 2010

Award / Honor Recipient: Honored Guest (2009) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Convocation ceremony, for making difference in multiple undergraduate students’ education, Arizona State University. May 6, 2009

Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper Award for Early Career Scholars in Remote Sensing, American Association of Geographers - Remote Sensing Specialty Group (AAG-RSSG). April 17, 2007 - April 21, 2007
Award / Honor Recipient: Distinguished Alumni Award - Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). January 1, 2007 - January 30, 2007

Award / Honor Recipient: Intergraph Young Scholar Award - University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). June 1, 2002 - June 30, 2002

Award / Honor Recipient: Otis Paul Starkey Dissertation Research Award (2001), American Association of Geographers. 2001
Award / Honor Recipient: William G. Haag Award (2001). Most outstanding paper in professional meetings, Dept. of Geography & Anthropology, LSU. 2001
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG) - Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG). February 27, 2001 - March 3, 2001

Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper Award – American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) – Mid-South Region Meeting, Clemson University, South Carolina, 2000. 2000
Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper Award (UCGIS), 2000 University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly, Portland, Oregon. 2000
Award / Honor Recipient: Student Paper Award (2nd place), 2000 South Western Division AAG meeting, Texas A&M University. 2000
Award / Honor Recipient: Robert C. West Field Research Award (November, 2000), Department of Geography and Anthropology, LSU. 2000
Award / Honor Recipient: USGS Scholar Award, First International Conference on GIScience, 2000, Savannah, GA, USA. October 28, 2000 - October 31, 2000

Award / Honor Recipient: Student Paper Award (2nd place), 1999 South Western Division - American Association of Geographers (SWAAG) meeting, Texas State University, San Marcos. 1999

Award / Honor Recipient: Best Poster Presentation Award, 1998 - 18th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1998

Award / Honor Recipient: French Government Scholarship, M.S. - Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (1993 - 1994). 1993 - 1994

Award / Honor Recipient: Netherlands Government Fellowship, Post Graduate Diploma studies at ITC, the Netherlands (1988 - 1989). 1988 - 1989