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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Hongyun Guo
Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
Ilya Ilyankou
University College London (UCL), UK
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Dr. Hartwig Hochmair
University of Florida
Prof. Huayi Wu
Winner
Dorothee Stiller
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Yue Lin
The Ohio State University
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Dr. Mingshu Wang
University of Glasgow
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Winner
Jianwei Huang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sevim Sezi Karayazi
Eindhoven University of Technology
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Wei Huang
Tongji University
Winner
Xuke Hu
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Junghwan Kim
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Bart Kuijpers
Hasselt University
Dr. Raffaele Albano
University of Basilicata
Prof. Lars Harrie
Lund University
Winner
Jesús Balado Frías
University of Vigo
Yang Zhang
University College London
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Lars Harrie
Lund University
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Fritsch
University of Stuttgart
Winner
Jue Wang
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taylor Anderson
Simon Fraser University
Award Committee
Dr. Wolfgang Kainz
Chairman
University of Vienna
Prof. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
Aalborg University Copenhagen
Dr. Marco Helbich
Utrecht University
Prof. Bernd Resch
Prof. Sisi Zlatanova
UNSW Built Environment
Winner
Yanbiao Sun
University College London
Marco Minghini
Politecnico di Milano
Winner
Hongchao Fan
GIScience Research Group of the Institute of Geography in Heidelberg
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