External Awards

Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award

Winner: Seishi Takamura, Computer and Data Science Laboratories, NTT, Inc./Hosei University

Date: June 5, 2025

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

For his outstanding achievements in research and development on video coding technologies, contribution to standardization of video coding, and playing a significant role in academic societies in the field of video coding.

Distinguished Research Award

Winners: Nariyoshi Chida, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University

Date: August 5, 2025

Organization: The Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Special Interest Group on Software Engineering

For “Repairing Regex-Dependent String Functions.”

Published as: N. Chida and T. Terauchi, “Repairing Regex-Dependent String Functions,” The 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024), Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct./Nov. 2024.

USENIX Security 2025 Notable Reviewer

Winner: Mitsuaki Akiyama, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: August 13, 2025

Organization: The 34th USENIX Security Symposium

IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award

Winners: Masanobu Kii, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Naoto Kiribuchi, Information Network Laboratory Group, NTT, Inc./Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan

Date: September 2, 2025

Organization: IPSJ

For “A Fast Constructing and Routing Algorithms of a Benes Network including Multiplexer and Its Application to Two-party Secure Computation.”

Published as: M. Kii and N. Kiribuchi, “A Fast Constructing and Routing Algorithms of a Benes Network including Multiplexer and Its Application to Two-party Secure Computation,” Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium (DICOMO2024), Iwate, Japan, June 2024.

Electronics Society Award

Winners: Munehiko Nagatani, Device Technology Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Hitoshi Wakita, Device Technology Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Yuta Shiratori, Device Technology Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: September 9, 2025

Organization: IEICE

For pioneering research on ultra-wideband analog multiplexer for optical communication.

Awaya Prize Young Researcher Award

Winner: Mizuki Nagano, Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: September 11, 2025

Organization: The Acoustical Society of Japan

For “Effects of Speaker and Listener Attributes in Advertising Speech on Mediation Model of Purchase Intention.”

Published as: M. Nagano, Y. Ijima, and S. Hiroya, “Effects of Speaker and Listener Attributes in Advertising Speech on Mediation Model of Purchase Intention,” Proc. of the 2025 Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan, Saitama, Japan, Mar. 2025.

Specially Selected Paper

Winners: Reika Nishimura.Arakawa, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Yo Kanemoto, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Mitsuaki Akiyama, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: September 15, 2025

Organization: IPSJ

For “SHERRY: A Precise Approach based on Inter-set Similarity Algorithm for Vulnerable Code Clone Discovery from Open Source Software.”

Published as: R. Nishimura.Arakawa, Y. Kanemoto, and M. Akiyama, “SHERRY: A Precise Approach based on Inter-set Similarity Algorithm for Vulnerable Code Clone Discovery from Open Source Software,” Journal of Information Processing, Vol. 33, pp. 537–551, Sept. 2025.

Specially Selected Paper

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

Date: September 15, 2025

Organization: IPSJ

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,” IPSJ Journal, Vol. 66, No. 9, pp. 1235–1246, Sept. 2025.

Honorable Mention

Winners: Shuto Sako, Nihon University; Tomoki Ikeda, Nihon University; Ryosuke Aoki, Human Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Akihiro Miyata, Nihon University

Date: October 27, 2025

Organization: The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025)

For “How Can Assistance and Its Disclosure Promote Fairness in Inclusive Esports?”.

Published as: S. Sako, T. Ikeda, R. Aoki, and A. Miyata, “How Can Assistance and Its Disclosure Promote Fairness in Inclusive Esports?”, ASSETS 2025, Denver, USA, Oct. 2025.

JSAI Annual Conference Award

Winners: Sanae Muramatsu, Software Innovation Center, NTT, Inc.; Akiko Masaki, Software Innovation Center, NTT, Inc.; Takeharu Eda, Software Innovation Center, NTT, Inc.

Date: November 1, 2025

Organization: The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)

For “Benchmarking LLM Inference and Training on Android SmartPhones.”

Published as: S. Muramatsu, A. Masaki, and T. Eda, “Benchmarking LLM Inference and Training on Android SmartPhones,” The 39th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Osaka, Japan, May 2025.

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