On October 11th, 2023, Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems Receives the "ACM UbiComp 10-year Impact Award".

Name of award
ACM UbiComp 10-year Impact Award

About awarded research and short explanation of the award
Yoshihiro Kawahara, Steve Hodges, Benjamin S. Cook, Cheng Zhang, and Gregory D. Abowd. 2013. Instant inkjet circuits: lab-based inkjet printing to support rapid prototyping of UbiComp devices. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing (UbiComp '13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 363–372. https://doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493486

At UbiComp 2013, prof. Kawahara presented a method to prototype circuits using a household inkjet printer loaded with silver nano-ink. At the time, they received the Best Paper Award. A decade after the presentation, their work is still recognized for its sustained impact, and as a result, they've been honored with the 10-year impact award.

Your impression & future plan:
Our research journey had its bumps in the beginning, yet with our colleagues' unwavering support, we managed to share our discoveries as a research paper. Since we introduced it, a broad spectrum of people has valued our work both in academic and social context. I'm profoundly thankful to all who've stood by our side and assisted us throughout these 10 years. We remain committed to advancing studies that resonate both in academia and the wider community going forward.