External Awards

Paper Award

Winners: Natsuha Ochiai, NTT Space Environment and Energy Laboratories; Yohei Toriumi, NTT Space Environment and Energy Laboratories; Madoka Takahashi, NTT Space Environment and Energy Laboratories; Satoshi Iwamoto, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

Date: April 25, 2025

Organization: The 7th Optical Wireless and Fiber Power Transmission Conference (OWPT2025)

For “Design of Metasurface-based Beam Homogenizer for Optical Wireless Power Transmission.”

Published as: N. Ochiai, Y. Toriumi, M. Takahashi, and S. Iwamoto, “Design of Metasurface-based Beam Homogenizer for Optical Wireless Power Transmission,” OWPT2025, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Apr. 2025.

IEICE ISS Young Researcher’s Award in Speech Field

Winner: Yuki Takashima, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: June 14, 2025

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

For “Study on a Japanese Speech Understanding Model Robust to Multi-item Questioning.”

Published as: Y. Takashima, A. Ando, and T. Asami, “Study on a Japanese Speech Understanding Model Robust to Multi-item Questioning,” IEICE Tech. Rep., Vol. 124, No. 391, SP2024-36, pp. 109–114, Mar. 2025.

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Tatsuo Itoh Award

Winners: Ibrahim Abdo, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Teruo Jyo, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Adam Pander, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Hitoshi Wakita, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Yuta Shiratori, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Miwa Muto, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Hiroshi Hamada, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Munehiko Nagatani, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Carrel da Gomez, Institute of Science Tokyo; Chun Wang, Institute of Science Tokyo; Kota Hatano, Institute of Science Tokyo; Chenxin Liu, Institute of Science Tokyo; Ashbir Aviat Fadila, Institute of Science Tokyo; Jian Pang, Institute of Science Tokyo; Atsushi Shirane, Institute of Science Tokyo; Kenichi Okada, Institute of Science Tokyo; Hiroyuki Takahashi, NTT Device Technology Laboratories

Date: June 18, 2025

Organization: IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society

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. 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.

Best Paper Award

Winners: Haruka Minami, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Takeshi Seki, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Tatsunori Omiya, NEC Corporation; Toshifumi Nakamura, NEC Corporation; J. Kenji Clark, NEC Corporation; Yusuke Shimomura, NEC Corporation; Hitoshi Takeshita, NEC Corporation; Wakako Maeda, NEC Corporation; Rie Hayashi, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories; Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, NEC Corporation; Takeshi Kuwahara, NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories

Date: July 2, 2025

Organization: The 30th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing 2025 (OECC/PSC 2025)

For “Experimental Demonstration of Optical-analog-optical Wavelength Conversion for Optical Cross-connect.”

Published as: H. Minami, T. Seki, T. Omiya, T. Nakamura, J. Kenji Clark, Y. Shimomura, H. Takeshita, W. Maeda, R. Hayashi, E. Le Taillandier de Gabory, and T. Kuwahara, “Experimental Demonstration of Optical-analog-optical Wavelength Conversion for Optical Cross-connect,” OECC/PSC 2025, WA3-2, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, June/July 2025.

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