External Awards

IOP Trusted Reviewer status

Winner: Takuya Ikuta, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Date: June 24, 2024

Organization: IOP Publishing

NDSS 2025 Distinguished Reviewer

Winner: Mitsuaki Akiyama, NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Date: February 26, 2025

Organization: The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025

Young Scientist Presentation Award

Winner: Giacomo Mariani, NTT Basic Research Laboratories

Date: March 14, 2025

Organization: The Japan Society of Applied Physics

For “Long-lived Valley-polarization in Suspended WSe2 Monolayers Strained by Electrostatic Pressure.”

Published as: G. Mariani, Y. Kunihashi, L. Smet, T. Wakamura, S. Sasaki, J. Ishihara, M. Kohda, J. Nitta, and H. Sanada, “Long-lived Valley-polarization in Suspended WSe2 Monolayers Strained by Electrostatic Pressure,” The 85th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024, Niigata, Japan, Sept. 2024.

IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award

Winners: Takafumi Moriya, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories/NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Hiroshi Sato, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Tsubasa Ochiai, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Marc Delcroix, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Takanori Ashihara, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Kohei Matsuura, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Tomohiro Tanaka, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Ryo Masumura, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Atsunori Ogawa, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Taichi Asami, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: March 14, 2025

Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

For “A Study on Knowledge Distillation for Neural Transducer-based Target-speaker ASR: Exploiting Parallel Mixture/Single-talker Speech Data.”

Published as: T. Moriya, H. Sato, T. Ochiai, M. Delcroix, T. Ashihara, K. Matsuura, T. Tanaka, R. Masumura, A. Ogawa, and T. Asami, “A Study on Knowledge Distillation for Neural Transducer-based Target-speaker ASR: Exploiting Parallel Mixture/Single-talker Speech Data,” IPSJ Technical Report, Vol. 2024, SLP-151, 2024.

ASJ Activity Contribution Award

Winner: Atsushi Ando, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: March 18, 2025

Organization: Acoustical Society of Japan (ASJ)

For his contribution to the activities of ASJ as a secretary of the Technical Committee on Speech.

Young Researcher’s Award

Winner: Ryota Okumura, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories

Date: March 26, 2025

Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

For “A Study on Access Control Methods for Wide-band Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks.”

Published as: R. Okumura, H. Fukumoto, Y. Fujino, S. Ohmori, Y. Ito, T. Ishihara, and Y. Tabata, “A Study on Access Control Methods for Wide-band Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks,” IEICE Society Conference 2024, B-5B-17, Saitama, Japan, Sept. 2024.

Young Researcher’s Award

Winner: Honoka Ito, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories

Date: March 26, 2025

Organization: IEICE

For “Demonstration of 150-GHz Band Multi-beam Wireless Transmission of Photonics-assisted Matrix Radio Beamformer.”

IPSJ Outstanding Paper Award

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

Date: March 26, 2025

Organization: IPSJ

For “Understanding the Breakdown of Same-origin Policies in Web Services That Rehost Websites.”

Published as: T. Watanabe, E. Shioji, M. Akiyama, and T. Mori, “Understanding the Breakdown of Same-origin Policies in Web Services That Rehost Websites,” Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 32, pp. 801–816, 2024.

ITU-AJ Accomplishment Award

Winner: Shingo Horiuchi, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Date: May 16, 2025

Organization: The ITU Association of Japan