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Shashidharan is the 2018 Esri Development Center International Student of the Year

Congratulations to Ashwin Shashidharan, a Center for Geospatial Analytics doctoral student in the NC State Department of Computer Science, on being selected as the 2018 Esri Development Center International Student of the Year.

The Esri Development Center (EDC) program confers special status and benefits upon a select few leading university departments that challenge their students to develop innovative applications based upon the ArcGIS platform and related elements of the geospatial technology ecosystem. One benefit of the program is a cash prize, certificate, and Esri Press book awarded to a Student of the Year named by each EDC.

Shashidharan, who gained international accolades for his cutting-edge research in computational steering for geosimulations, was also named NC State University’s Esri Development Center Student of the Year, the university’s first awardee.

The Esri Development Center (EDC) Program for Higher Education was established by the world’s top GIS software company, Esri, to “confer special status and benefits upon a select few leading university departments that challenge their students to develop innovative applications based upon the ArcGIS platform.” The Center for Geospatial Analytics was invited by Esri to become an EDC in Fall 2017. Each EDC worldwide can honor one student each year who has shown exemplary work in the area of GIS development and application.

Shashidharan is jointly advised by Dr. Raju Vatsavai, the Center for Geospatial Analytic’s associate director of computing and technology, and center director Dr. Ross Meentemeyer.

For more information on the Esri Development Center Students of the Year, click here.

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