{"id":654,"date":"2023-09-28T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/?page_id=654"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:55:50","slug":"ss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/ss\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STUDENT SUPERVISEE FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMPRESSIVE STUDENTS of IMPRESS LAB – See recent accomplishments<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*** Four students from IMPRESS LAB were awarded prestigious NASA graduate fellowships in 2019<\/a>, 2021<\/a>, 2023<\/a>, and 2025<\/a>.These highly competitive fellowships are granted to less than 15% of applicants across various STEM disciplines.<\/strong> ***<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Phong Nguyen<\/strong>, a First-Year Research Experience (FYRE) student at IMPRESS LAB, was awarded a CURO Summer Research Fellowship for Summer<\/strong> 2026 <\/strong>for his innovative undergraduate research. His project investigates a drone-mounted smartphone platform to sense soil moisture using GNSS Reflectometry (GNSS\u2011R), with Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques incorporated to mitigate vegetation effects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Students from IMPRESS LAB \u2014 K. Al Mahmud, J. Halder, B. Baray, and T. Anjum \u2014 <\/strong>achieved third place in the AERPAW Autonomous UAV Student Challenge #2<\/strong>, competing among 22 registered teams<\/strong>. Of those, 16 teams submitted projects for evaluation using the AERPAW digital twin, and 11 advanced as finalists for live testbed experiments at Lake Wheeler Field Labs. The full rankings are available Rankings<\/a> Competition website: Winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Abesh Ghosh<\/strong> was awarded a NASA <\/strong>Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2025<\/strong>.The title of the project is “Unlocking Forest Vital Signs: High-Resolution Spatiotemporal VOD Mapping at Large Scales Through GNSS-T and LiDAR Fusion, Advancing NASA Earth Observation Systems.” . Selections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Students from IMPRESS LAB (A. Ghosh, E. Hoque, J. Halder, B. Baray, K. Al Mahmud, T. Anjum<\/strong>) distinguished themselves by securing a position among the top six teams<\/strong> in the IEEE GRSS Student Grand Challenge 2025<\/strong>, out of 32 international submissions<\/strong>. At the Fifth GRSS Student Grand Challenge<\/a> (SGC), student teams develop an end-to-end remote sensing application based on unmanned vehicles (e.g. drones, remote controlled planes or helicopters, underwater vehicles, rovers, stratospheric balloons\u2026).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kaies Al Mahmud<\/strong> has been accepted for the 2025 CyberPowder Fellows Program<\/a>.  CyberPowder is an NSF-funded wireless networking hands-on training and research mentoring program<\/strong> for US-based graduate students. (NSF CyberTraining award number: 2417934<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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M. Ehsanul Hoque<\/strong>\u2019s paper, submitted to the 2025 URSI <\/strong>NRSM Student Paper Competition<\/strong>, has been selected as an HONORABLE MENTION<\/em>. 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Abesh Ghosh<\/strong> is selected as a finalist for IEEE IGARSS 3MT competition<\/strong> with his work on forest vegetation optical depth mapping using GNSS signals in 2024<\/strong>. Three Minute Thesis<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Md Mehedi Farhad<\/strong> was awarded a NASA Future Investigators in NASA <\/strong>Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2023<\/strong>. The title of the project is “Recycling the Radio Spectrum: Enhancing NASA\u2019s Earth Observing Systems Products over Forested Terrain by Direct Measurement of Vegetation Optical Depth” Selections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Md Mehedi Farhad<\/strong> was a 2023-2024 Outstanding Hall of Fame<\/strong> Student by the College of Engineering award winner as well as 2023-2024 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner.MSU honors top graduate students, faculty mentors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dylan R Boyd<\/strong> was awarded a NASA <\/strong>Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) Grant in 2021<\/strong>. The title of the project is “Recycling the radio spectrum: Can anthropogenic signals in LEO be repurposed for science? Advancing soil moisture remote sensing with NASA Signals of Opportunity datasets, forward modeling, and physics-guided machine learning”. Selections<\/a>. ECE Graduate Student Wins NASA FINESST Grant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dylan R Boyd<\/strong> was a 2020-2021 Bagley College of Engineering and Office of Research and Development (ORED) Graduate Student award <\/strong>winner as well as 2020-2021 Best ECE Graduate Researcher winner. ECE Graduate Student Receives BCoE Graduate Research Award<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Preston Peranich<\/strong> was awarded Mississippi Space Grant<\/strong> Consortium (MSSGC) Graduate Fellowship, 2019<\/strong> and 2020<\/strong>. Graduate Student Spotlight \u2013 Preston Peranich<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Orhan Eroglu<\/strong> was awarded a NASA<\/strong> Earth and Space Science Fellowship in 2019<\/strong>.The title of the project is “Unveiling CYGNSS Land Signatures for High Spatiotemporal Soil Moisture Estimation.” Selections<\/a>. Mississippi State graduate student wins grant from NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Abdelmoula Elyazizi was awarded a Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) Undergraduate Research grant with $2,000 in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassie Myers and Grant Parker were awarded a CSpire and Nokia Bell Labs fellowship in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STUDENT SUPERVISEE FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS IMPRESSIVE STUDENTS of IMPRESS LAB – See recent accomplishments! *** Four students from IMPRESS LAB were awarded prestigious NASA graduate fellowships in 2019, 2021, 2023, and 2025.These highly competitive fellowships are granted to less than 15% of applicants across various STEM disciplines. *** Phong Nguyen, a First-Year Research Experience (FYRE)… Read More »Student Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-654","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/654\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impress.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}