External Awards

ITU-AJ Accomplishment Award

Winner: Junichi Iwatani, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Date: May 16, 2025

Organization: The ITU Association of Japan

2024 IEICE RCS Active Researcher Award

Winner: Takumi Yoneda, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Date: May 19, 2025

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

For “Experimental Study on Large-scale Metasurface Reflectors for Multipath Environment Construction in Millimeter-wave Bands.”

Published as: T. Yoneda, T. Murakami, S. Yoshida, T. Sayama, O. Kagaya, D. Mouri, S. Suyama, Y. Chang, H. Jiang, and Y. Takatori, “Experimental Study on Large-scale Metasurface Reflectors for Multipath Environment Construction in Millimeter-wave Bands,” IEICE Tech. Rep., Vol. 124, No. 409, RCS2024-277, pp. 90–95, Mar. 2025.

Best Paper Award

Winners: Fuma Kunihiro, Kyushu University; Osamu Muta, Kyushu University; Tomoki Murakami, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories; Shinya Otsuki, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories; Hanae Otani, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Date: June 6, 2025

Organization: The 8th International Workshop on Smart Wireless Communications (SmartCom 2025)

For “Experimental Evaluation of WLAN-based Device-free Localization in Large-scale Indoor and Outdoor Environments.”

Published as: F. Kunihiro, O. Muta, T. Murakami, S. Otsuki, and H. Otani, “Experimental Evaluation of WLAN-based Device-free Localization in Large-scale Indoor and Outdoor Environments,” SmartCom 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 2025.

Best Paper Award

Winners: Shiori Konisho, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Junji Sakamoto, NTT Device Technology Laboratories; Hiromitsu Imai, NTT Basic Research Laboratories; Toshikazu Hashimoto, NTT Device Technology 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 “Computer-generated All-in-one Wavelength Combiner-Splitter with Zr-doped Core Planar Lightwave Circuit.”

Published as: S. Konisho, J. Sakamoto, H. Imai, and T. Hashimoto, “Computer-generated All-in-one Wavelength Combiner-Splitter with Zr-doped Core Planar Lightwave Circuit,” OECC/PSC 2025, WE2-1, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, June/July 2025.

Best Paper Award

Winners: Scinob Kuroki, NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Shin’ya Nishida, Kyoto University

Date: July 11, 2025

Organization: IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

For “Touch Cannot Attentionally Select Signals Based on Feature Binding.”

Published as: S. Kuroki and S. Nishida, “Touch Cannot Attentionally Select Signals Based on Feature Binding,” IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 604–613, 2024.

Best Associate Editor

Winner: Scinob Kuroki, NTT Communication Science Laboratories

Date: July 11, 2025

Organization: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2025

Best Paper Award

Winners: Toshihiko Nishimura, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Hirofumi Abe, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Kazuhiko Murasaki, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Taiga Yoshida, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories; Ryuichi Tanida, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories

Date: July 28, 2025

Organization: 19th International Conference on Machine Vision Application (MVA 2025)

For “Leveraging 2D-VLM for Label-free 3D Segmentation in Large-scale Outdoor Scene Understanding.”

Published as: T. Nishimura, H. Abe, K. Murasaki, T. Yoshida, and R. Tanida, “Leveraging 2D-VLM for Label-free 3D Segmentation in Large-scale Outdoor Scene Understanding,” MVA 2025, Kyoto, Japan, July 2025.

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