External Awards

Best Presentation Award

Winners: Yukio Koike, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Kohei Umezawa, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Arinobu Niijima, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: August 23, 2024

Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Technical Group on Media Experience and Virtual Environment (MVE)

For “Evaluation of Remote Operation Synchronization in the East-West IOWN APN Demonstration Environment.”

Published as: Y. Koike, K. Umezawa, and A. Niijima, “Evaluation of Remote Operation Synchronization in the East-West IOWN APN Demonstration Environment,” IEICE Tech. Rep., Vol. 124, No. 157, MVE2024-9, pp. 14–17, Aug. 2024.

CSS2024 Encouragement Award

Winners: Tatsuhiro Aoshima, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Mitsuaki Akiyama, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Date: October 25, 2024

Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)/Computer Security Symposium 2024 (CSS2024)

For “Systematizing Threats of Injection Attacks on Applications of Large Language Models.”

Published as: T. Aoshima and M. Akiyama, “Systematizing Threats of Injection Attacks on Applications of Large Language Models,” Proc. of CSS2024, pp. 185–192, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Oct. 2024.

CSS2024 Encouragement Award

Winners: Iifan Tyou, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Ryuya Hayashi, The University of Tokyo; Kanta Matsuura, The University of Tokyo

Date: October 25, 2024

Organization: IPSJ/CSS2024

For “Interoperability between Permissioned Distributed Ledgers without External Trust Anchor.”

Published as: I. Tyou, R. Hayashi, and K. Matsuura, “Interoperability between Permissioned Distributed Ledgers without External Trust Anchor,” Proc. of CSS2024, pp. 666–673, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, Oct. 2024.

Best Industry Paper

Winners: Taiga Yamane, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Satoshi Suzuki, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Ryo Masumura, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Shotaro Tora; NTT Computer and Data Science Laboratories

Date: October 30, 2024

Organization: The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)

For “MVAFormer: RGB-based Multi-view Spatio-temporal Action Recognition with Transformer.”

Published as: T. Yamane, S. Suzuki, R. Masumura, and S. Tora, “MVAFormer: RGB-based Multi-view Spatio-temporal Action Recognition with Transformer,” ICIP 2024, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 2024.

Certificate of Honor and Appreciation

Winner: Yu Sasaki, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Date: November 19, 2024

Organization: The 27th Annual International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC 2024)

IEEE MTT-S Japan Young Engineer Award

Winner: Ibrahim Abdo, NTT Device Technology Laboratories

Date: November 28, 2024

Organization: IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) Japan Chapter

For “300-GHz-band Four-element CMOS-InP Hybrid Phased-array Transmitter with 36° Steering Range.”

Published as: I. Abdo, T. Jyo, A. Pander, H. Wakita, Y. Shiratori, M. Muto, H. Hamada, M. Nagatani, C. da Gomez, C. Wang, K. Hatano, C. Liu, A. A. Fadila, J. Pang, A. Shirane, K. Okada, and H. Takahashi, “300-GHz-band Four-element CMOS-InP Hybrid Phased-array Transmitter with 36° Steering Range,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 887–890, June 2023.

FIT Paper Award

Winners: Yuichi Maki, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Naoto Abe, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Takayoshi Mochiduki, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: November 29, 2024

Organization: IPSJ

For “A Study on Quality of Experience Analysis of Virtual Space Representation Using 3D Point Cloud Data.”

Published as: Y. Maki, N. Abe, and T. Mochiduki, “A Study on Quality of Experience Analysis of Virtual Space Representation Using 3D Point Cloud Data,” The 23rd Forum on Information Technology (FIT2024), CK-004, Hiroshima, Japan, Sept. 2024 (in Japanese).

Honorable Mention Award

Winners: Shota Horiguchi, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Atsushi Ando, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Takafumi Moriya, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Takanori Ashihara, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Hiroshi Sato, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Naohiro Tawara, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Marc Delcroix, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Date: December 4, 2024

Organization: The 2024 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT 2024)

For “Recursive Attentive Pooling for Extracting Speaker Embeddings from Multi-speaker Recordings.”

Published as: S. Horiguchi, A. Ando, T. Moriya, T. Ashihara, H. Sato, N. Tawara, and M. Delcroix, “Recursive Attentive Pooling for Extracting Speaker Embeddings from Multi-speaker Recordings,” Proc. of SLT 2024, Macao, China, Dec. 2024.

Asiacrypt 2024 Certificate of Appreciation

Winner: Yu Sasaki, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Date: December 11, 2024

Organization: The International Association for Cryptologic Research

For his contribution to the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the field of cryptology research through the role of the program chair of Asiacrypt 2024.

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