{"id":2002,"date":"2025-02-13T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/clark-cga-director-hamed-alemohammad-receives-an-award-from-tgi-and-aws\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:38:57","slug":"clark-cga-director-hamed-alemohammad-receives-an-award-from-tgi-and-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/blog\/clark-cga-director-hamed-alemohammad-receives-an-award-from-tgi-and-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark CGA Director Hamed Alemohammad receives an award from TGI and AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"TGI panel\" class=\"wp-image-2368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/geospatial-analytics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/117\/TGI-Award-Hamed-1-png-1.avif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark CGA is very proud and excited to announce&nbsp;that our Director Hamed Alemohammad,&nbsp;received an award from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/taylorgeostl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/amazon-web-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon Web Services (AWS)<\/a> to advance GenAI models for future land cover projections to support sustainable land use planning and climate resilience strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be a collaborative project between Clark Center for Geospatial Analytics and <a href=\"https:\/\/washu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington University in St. Louis<\/a> working with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jacobsn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nathan Jacobs<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sam-khallaghi-7847872b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sam Khallaghi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/srikumar-sastry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Srikumar Sastry<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cherdaniel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daniel Cher<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the award <a href=\"https:\/\/taylorgeospatial.org\/taylor-geospatial-institute-aws-announce-winners-of-generative-ai-for-geospatial-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clark CGA is very proud and excited to announce&nbsp;that our Director Hamed Alemohammad,&nbsp;received an award from Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to advance GenAI models for future land cover projections to support sustainable land use planning and climate resilience strategies. 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