External Awards

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Network Systems Research Award

Winners: Hiroyuki Kitada, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Daiki Fukudome, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories; Kento Noguchi, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Takafumi Okuyama, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Satoshi Nishimura, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories; Hisayuki Ohmata, NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories

Date: February 29, 2024

Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Technical Committee on Network Systems


For “Implementation and Evaluation of Delay Adjuster for In-network Video Processing.”

Published as: H. Kitada, D. Fukudome, K. Noguchi, T. Okuyama, S. Nishimura, and H. Ohmata, “Implementation and Evaluation of Delay Adjuster for In-network Video Processing,” IEICE Technical Report, Vol. 123, No. 198, NS2023-106, pp. 172–176, 2023.

Fellow

Winner: Jun Terada, NTT Device Technology Laboratories

Date: March 5, 2024

Organization: IEICE


For research and development for practical application and advancement of high-speed optical access network systems.

JSAP Young Scientist Award

Winner: Megumi Kurosu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Date: March 22, 2024

Organization: The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)


For “Buckling-induced Quadratic Nonlinearity in Silicon Phonon Waveguide Structures.”

Published as: M. Kurosu, D. Hatanaka, H. Okamoto, and H. Yamaguchi, “Buckling-induced Quadratic Nonlinearity in Silicon Phonon Waveguide Structures,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 61, SD1025, 2022.

Tingye Li Innovation Prize

Winner: Josuke Ozaki, NTT Innovative Devices Corporation

Date: March 26, 2024

Organization: Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)


For “Net-1.8 Tbps/λ Transmission Enabled by C+L-band InP-based Coherent Driver Modulator.”

Published as: J. Ozaki, “Net-1.8 Tbps/λ Transmission Enabled by C+L-band InP-based Coherent Driver Modulator,” OFC 2024, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2024.

Journal of Information Processing Outstanding Paper Award

Winners: Kazuki Nomoto, Waseda University; Takuya Watanabe, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Eitaro Shioji, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Mitsuaki Akiyama, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University

Date: March 29, 2024

Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)


For “Understanding the Inconsistencies in the Permissions Mechanism of Web Browsers.”

Published as: K. Nomoto, T. Watanabe, E. Shioji, M. Akiyama, and T. Mori, “Understanding the Inconsistencies in the Permissions Mechanism of Web Browsers,” Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 31, 2023 (online).

Prime Minister’s Award at Japan Industrial Technology Awards

Winners: Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka University, Fujitsu Limited, and NTT Corporation

Date: April 3, 2024

Organization: The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun


For the development of an ultra-high-performance computing platform using a 64-qubit superconducting quantum computer and provision of the platform on the cloud for corporate use.

Maejima Hisoka Encouragement Award

Winner: Kohki Shibahara, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories

Date: April 11, 2024

Organization: Tsushinbunka Association


For research on long-haul optical repeatered transmission systems using mode division multiplexing.



Papers Published in Technical Journals and Conference Proceedings

Unconditional Verification of Quantum Computation with Classical Light

Y. Takeuchi and A. Mizutani

arXiv:2403.14142, March 2024.

Verification of quantum computation is a task to efficiently check whether an output given from a quantum computer is correct. Existing verification protocols conducted between a quantum computer to be verified and a verifier necessitate quantum communication to unconditionally detect any malicious behavior of the quantum computer solving any promise problem in BQP. In this paper, we remove the necessity of the communication of qubits by proposing a “physically-classical” verification protocol in which the verifier just sends coherent light to the quantum computer.

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