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    • 2023.01.24:
    • Ryota Tanomura(D3), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received JSPS Ikushi Prize.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award >
      JSPS Ikushi Prize
      In 2009, JSPS received an endowment from His Majesty the Emperor Emeritus Akihito on the 20th year of his reign. Amidst a severe economic environment in Japanese society, His Majesty’s desire was to encourage and support young scientists who are working diligently to advance their studies and research. In deference to his wishes, JSPS established the JSPS Ikushi Prize program and placed it into operation in FY 2010. It functions to formally recognize outstanding doctoral students who can be expected to contribute to Japan’s future scientific advancement. (Quoted from https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-ikushi-prize/outline.html)

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Optical mode demultiplexing based on the universal optical circuit.
      The technology of spatial mode-division multiplexing is garnering significant attention as a next-generation solution to support the rapidly growing demand for optical communications. This innovative technology has the potential to multiply the transmission capacity per optical fiber by dozens of times or more, enabling ultra-high-capacity transmission of 10 petabits per second. However, it also leads to significant power consumption and delay at the receiving end. In this research, we fabricated a "universal optical circuit" as a compact semiconductor chip that can replace processing on the receiver side simply by allowing light to pass through it, and aimed to create a high-capacity optical communication system with ultra-low power consumption. We have successfully achieved a compact and error tolerant optical circuit by implementing a unique method of multi-plane lightwave conversion on a semiconductor chip of a few millimeters square. Through actual transmission experiments of large-capacity mode-multiplexed signals using this device, we succeeded in mode decoding in the optical domain, making a significant contribution to the realization of low-power and scalable optical communication systems.

      <Your impression & future plan >
      This is my great pleasure and honor to receive this outstanding award. I would like to thank Prof. Yoshiaki Nakano, Takuo Tanemura, and collaborators and all members of Suzuki laboratory. I'd like to continue to push forward my research.
    • 2022.12.16:
    • Project lecturer Koya Narumi, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received WISS2022 Best Presentation Award by Program Committee Members.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award >
      WISS2022 Best Presentation Award by Program Committee Members

      WISS, one of the workshops on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), was held in Zao, Miyagi during Dec. 14 - 16, 2022. Best Presentation Award by Program Committee Members was given to the presentation with the largest number of votes from program committee members of WISS. The awarded talk was on the paper “Crane:An Integrated Computational Design Platform for Functional, Foldable, and Fabricable Origami Products.”

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Kai Suto, Yuta Noma, Kotaro Tanimichi, Koya Narumi, & Tomohiro Tachi, “Crane: An Integrated Computational Design Platform for Functional, Foldable, and Fabricable Origami Products,” WISS2022, No. 87, pp. 23-30, Dec 2022 (in Japanese).

      <Your impression & future plan >
      We, the co-authors of Crane, are all very proud of this award. This project originated from the Mitou Project by Suto and Tanimichi, which was then extended as a research outcome. This work was on the design software of origami products with functions of simulating the origami, finding a new shape under design constraints, and generating the thickened structure for fabriaction of objects. The proposed software is publicly available and open-source, and thus we believe it will be leveraged in industry as well as in research fields. For the future, we will continue to publish succeeding projects on computational design and fabrication of origami-related products.
    • 2022.12.16:
    • Ryo Takahashi (D3), Wakako Yukita (Technical Staff), Associate Professor Tomoyuki Yokota, Professor Takao Someya, Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara, Department of Electrical Engineering, received the 1st Best Paper Award in The 30th Workshop on Interactive Systems and Software (WISS2022).

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award >
      WISS 2022 Best Paper Award

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Wearable devices with small battery capacity are difficult to use for long time and have limited functions. Although a cloth-type wireless charger has the potential to stably power up functional wearable devices in the use, the electromagnetic field exposure in the body limits the power transmission amount, and the high loss of conductive yarns results in low power transfer efficiency. Therefore, we first improved a meander coil that we previously developed for wireless communication to efficiently power up the devices near the body surface while suppressing electromagnetic field exposure. Then, by using flexible liquid metal wires, we realized a safe and efficient wireless charging system capable of supplying 2.5 W of power with an efficiency of about 40%.

      <Your impression & future plan >
      I am very honored to receive this award. I would like to thank all of my collaborators who have worked with me on this challenging research and who have supported me in my research life. I hope this paper will contribute to the future development of wireless charging.

      https://www.wiss.org/WISS2022/award.html
    • 2022.12.07:
    • Takuya Kunihara, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Encouragement Award of the Regular Meetings of Speech Committee. <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Encouragement Award of the Regular Meetings of Speech Committee

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Shadowing-based multi-faceted assessment of language learners’ ability of production and perception of English speech
      Takuya Kunihara, Chuanbo Zhu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi

      <Your impression & future plan>
      This study showed good possibility of quantifying various aspects of L2 speech communication such as pronunciation, listening, and internalization at the same time by analyzing shadowing utterances. The presentation was made about a year ago and I’m very happy that it was highly evaluated.
    • 2022.12.07:
    • Koji Yatani, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, named ACM Distinguished Member.

      <Name of award>
      ACM Distinguished Member

      <Explanation about the award>
      The Distinguished Members Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of Professional Membership in the last 10 years who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. In 2022, ACM named 67 individuals, and there are 862 Distinguished Members so far.

      https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/december/distinguished-members-2022

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to be an ACM Distinguished Member, which is a prestigious recognition. This would never happen without wonderful collaboration with all of my students, support from my collaborators and colleagues, and warm encouragement from my family. I keep working hard to contribute to the society further through research.
    • 2022.12.01:
    • Atsuhiro Yamaguchi (B4), Zhengdong Lin (M1), Kentaro Matsuura (D3), Morikawa Narusue Laboratory, received Student and Young Engineer Design Competition First Prize at 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award >
      Student and Young Engineer Design Competition First Prize
      This award is presented to the best work in Student and Young Engineer Design Competition, which is a competition of demo videos about technology with Wireless Power Transfer, held at 2022 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference(APMC 2022).

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Title: The Electromagnetic User Interface for 2D Wireless Power Transfer
      Wireless power transfer is getting attention for charging mobile devices such as smartphones. However, for wireless power transfer, unexpected misalignment will cause malfunctions, and this is thought to be one of the reasons it is not widely used. In this research, we propose a concept of a novel wireless power transfer system with force feedback that allows users to recognize intuitively that the mobile devices are being charged, even though the wireless power transfer uses an invisible electromagnetic field. We’ve been designing a system that applies a force (electromagnetic force) to the mobile device with an electromagnet array for moving the device, preventing malfunctions in the wireless power transfer, and having the user feel as if the device were connected to a cable.

      <Your impression & future plan >
      I am honored to receive this prestigious award. I will continue to try to do this research in the future.

      URL: https://apmc2022.org/b/competition.html
    • 2022.11.17:
    • Associate Professor Le Duc Anh, Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Systems (EEIS) and Center for Spintronics Research Network (CSRN), has been selected as a "Distinguished Researcher" of the University of Tokyo for the 2022 academic year.
      https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/ja/articles/t_z1402_00012.html
      This is based on the University of Tokyo's "Support Program for Young Researchers' Independence (The University of Tokyo Distinguished Researchers)", which aims to support outstanding young researchers to start up their research activities.
    • 2022.11.17:
    • 工学系研究科 電気系工学専攻 博士2年山口尚紀さんがIEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Best Student Papers 3rd Placeを受賞しました。

      <受賞学会及び賞>
      IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Best Student Papers 3rd Place

      <受賞論文題>
      “Coherent Doppler LiDAR using Novel MEMS-based Optical Phased Array Scanner”

      IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)は、2022年11月13日〜17日にカナダ・バンクーバーで行われた国際学会になります。学会のページのURLは以下になります。
      https://ieee-ipc.org/best-student-paper
      https://ieee-ipc.org/
    • 2022.11.09:
    • Discovery of Giant Odd-Parity Magnetoresistance in Nonmagnetic/Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures -Unique Electronic Transport Phenomenon due to "Symmetry Breaking" in Materials, a Possibility for Next-Generation Quantum Devices The research has been carried out by graduate student Kosuke Takiguchi, Associate Professor Le Duc Anh, graduate student Harunori Shiratani, and Professor Masaaki Tanaka of Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, graduate student Ryota Fukuzawa and Professor Takuji Takahashi of Institute of Industrial Science, and Lecturer Takahiro Chiba of Fukushima National College of Technology. They fabricated bilayer heterostructure consisting of a nonmagnetic semiconductor (InAs) and a ferromagnetic semiconductor (GaFeSb). The research group has discovered a new electronic transport phenomenon that exhibits giant odd-parity magnetoresistance. The results were published online in Nature Communications on Nov.9, 2022.
      In ordinary materials, the change in electrical resistance (magnetoresistance effect) when a magnetic field is applied is exactly the same when the direction of the magnetic field is reversed. However, in the InAs/(Ga,Fe)Sb semiconductor heterostructures fabricated by the research group, giant odd-parity magnetoresistance (OMR) was discovered, in which the electrical resistance changes by 27% when the external magnetic field direction is reversed. This new OMR occurs in a one-dimensional conduction channel formed on the side edges of a nonmagnetic semiconductor layer, and it is caused by (1) "spatial inversion symmetry breaking" due to the surface potential of the side edge and (2) "time reversal symmetry breaking" due to magnetic proximity effect from the adjacent ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Fe)Sb. This phenomenon is significant because the giant electromagnetic response due to symmetry breaking appeared in semiconductor heterostructures, which are compatible with electronics, and is expected to be used in next-generation spintronics such as highly sensitive magnetic-field sensors. The research results were published online in Nature Communications on November 9, 2022.

      Kosuke Takiguchi, Le Duc Anh, Takahiro Chiba, Harunori Shiratani, Ryota Fukuzawa, Takuji Takahashi, and Masaaki Tanaka "Giant gate-controlled odd-parity magnetoresistance in one-dimensional channels with a magnetic proximity effect",
      Nature Communications 13, pp.6538/1-7 (2022).
      Doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34177-w
      https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34177-w
    • 2022.10.25:
    • At the 2022 Autumn Matriculation Ceremony of the University of Tokyo held at the Yasuda Auditorium on October 1st, Mr. Yu Baisen, first-year doctoral student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (Tanaka-Nakane Laboratory), gave the pledge as representative of the incoming students.
      Published in the University of Tokyo Public Relations No.1563 (October 25, 2022). Photo on p.8, photo and the pledge on p.15.

      https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/about/public-relations/kouhou.html
      https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400200348.pdf
    • 2022.10.21:
    • 岩本 敏教授が「第21回ドコモ・モバイル・サイエンス賞 基礎科学部門優秀賞」を受賞されました。

      <受賞した研究について>
      トポロジカルナノフォトニクスの先導的研究

      <受賞理由>
      岩本氏は、物性科学で発展してきたトポロジーの概念を光の制御に適用し、半導体フォトニクス結晶を用いて光のトポロジカルな状態を実現することで、従来技術の延長では難しい、 急峻な曲げに対応可能であり、曲げても低損失で劣化が非常に少ない導波路を実現した。光集積回路部品の大幅な小型化に貢献しうるものとして注目されている。 また、トポロジー概念を用いての世界初のトポロジカルナノ共振器も実現した。
      アプローチに新規性があり、岩本氏独自の学術領域創成への期待も持てる。光通信システムへの応用、省エネ化、新たな多重通信技術の研究等にも繋がるものとして、 学術面でも社会的にもこれまでの貢献・将来性共に優れている。 https://www.mcfund.or.jp/mobilescience/award/no21.html
    • 2022.10.07:
    • 電気系工学専攻博士課程2年の金田(髙田)真悟さん、Le Duc Anh准教授、小林正起准教授、関宗俊准教授、田畑仁教授、田中雅明教授、大矢忍准教授のグループと、 高エネルギー加速器研究機構(KEK)の北村未歩助教、堀場弘司准教授(現量子科学技術研究開発機構)、東北大学の組頭広志教授らが、 ペロブスカイト酸化物ヘテロ構造を用いて世界最高効率のスピン流電流変換を実現しました。本成果は、英国科学誌「Nature Communications」に掲載されました。 プレスリリースが行われ、いくつかのマスコミで報道されました。

      <論文>
      S. Kaneta-Takada, M. Kitamura, S. Arai, T. Arai, R. Okano, L. D. Anh, T. Endo, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, M. Kobayashi, M. Seki, H. Tabata, M. Tanaka, and S. Ohya, "Giant spin-to-charge conversion at an all-epitaxial single-crystal-oxide Rashba interface with a strongly-correlated metal interlayer", Nature Communications 13, 5631 (2022).
      doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33350-5

      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33350-5

      <プレスリリース>
      ・2022年10月4日,世界最高効率のスピン流電流変換を酸化物で実現―酸化物を用いた低消費電力スピンデバイスの実現に向けた新たな進展―,東京大学 工学部/工学系研究科 プレスリリース, https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/press/pr2022-10-04-001

      ・2022年10月4日,世界最高効率のスピン流電流変換を酸化物で実現―酸化物を用いた低消費電力スピンデバイスの実現に向けた新たな進展―, 高エネルギー加速器研究機構(KEK) プレスリリース,https://www.kek.jp/ja/press/202210041400/

      <マスコミ、メディア報道>
      ・2022年10月4日,世界最高効率のスピン流電流変換を酸化物で実現 ―酸化物を用いた低消費電力スピンデバイスの実現に向けた新たな進展―, 日本の研究.comhttps://research-er.jp/articles/view/115009

      ・2022年10月5日,東大ら,酸化物で最高効率のスピン流電流変換実現,OPTRONICS ONLINE, https://optronics-media.com/news/20221005/78833/

      ・2022年10月5日,東大など、単結晶酸化物にて世界最大級のスピン流電流変換効率を実現,Mapion ニュース, https://www.mapion.co.jp/news/column/cobs2490254-1-all/
    • 2022.09.27:
    • Dr. Shobhit Goel (Postdoctoral Researcher, Masaaki Tanaka Laboratory) received the SSDM2021 Young Researcher Award at the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM),
      for the following paper:
      Shobhit Goel , Nguyen Huynh Duy Khang, Le Duc Anh, Pham Nam Hai, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "Room-temperature spin injection and spin-to-charge conversion in a ferromagnetic semiconductor / topological insulator heterostructure"
      Presented at the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 2021), All-Virtual, September 6-9, 2021.
    • 2022.09.21:
    • Mr. Harunori Shiratani (M1 student, Masaaki Tanaka Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Information Systems) received the Best English Presentation Award from the Spintronics Research Committee of the Japan Society of Applied Physics,
      for the following presentatoin:
      Harunori Shiratani, Kosuke Takiguchi, Le Duc Anh, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "Spin-split Fermi surface of InAs/(Ga,Fe)Sb nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic bilayer semiconductor heterostructures"
      2022 Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, 23p-E205-1, Sagamihara Campus, Aoyama-Gakuin University, Online, March 22-25, 2022.
    • 2022.09.15:
    • Ryo Takahashi, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Doctor 3rd, received Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award runner up.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award runner up

      At the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp), Ryo Takahashi won the runner up of the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award, which is given to a student who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of ubiquitous computing.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      A set of research results about wireless power transfer and wireless readout toward continuous wearable computing was evaluated and awarded.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award. I would like to thank all of my collaborators who have worked with me on this challenging research and who have supported me in my research life.
      https://ubicomp.org/sc/awards.html
    • 2022.09.15:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻博士課程2年 Zhongyi Zhou(周 中一)さん、電気系工学専攻修士課程2年Anran Xu(徐 安然)さんらの研究が Proceedings of the ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (PACM IMWUT)においてDistinguished Paper Awardを受賞しました。

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award

      IMWUT assigns every year a Distinguished Paper Award (DPA) to 3-4% of all papers published by the journal in the previous year (volume). IMWUT DPAs are assigned to outstanding contributions that distinguish themselves for their novelty, completeness and maturity, pedagogical, theoretical, or practical value, or have other characteristics considered exemplary for the IMWUT community.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      We create a system called SyncUp that provides multiple interactive visualizations to support the practice of synchronized dancing.
      https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3478120

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Zhongyi Zhou :
      I am very excited to receive this award that recognizes our research. I want to thank everyone who has supported us in this project. I will continue my research in HCI and bring more research that excites our community.

      Anran Xu :
      I am very expressed to know the first research program I participated in since I joined Yatani Lab received this awards. I want to show my gratitude to everyone who helped us in this research. I will keep investigating how HCI can improve the quality of life.
    • 2022.09.15:
    • Tokiya Ohmura, Department of Information and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering, received Student Presentation Award of the ASJ meeting.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Student Presentation Award of the ASJ meeting

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      A study of automatic evaluation of learners’ speech with robustness to background noise using a throat microphone,
      Tokiya Ohmura, Yusuke Shozui, Kiichi Itoh, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Speech assessment technologies generally require clean speech, which is often difficult to obtain in a classroom. With a throat microphone, which detects not air particle vibrations but vibrations of the skin of the throat, only the target speaker’s voices can be recorded even with many surrounding learners. However, speech signals detected with a throat microphone are inevitably muffled. In this study, they are converted back to their clean and clear voices with DNN-based voice conversion techniques. As future work, further improvements of conversion performance will be needed.
    • 2022.09.07:
    • Suzuki Yamato, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo / Doctor 3rd, received 12th Robotics Symposia Young Investigator Excellence Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      12th Robotics Symposia Young Investigator Excellence Award

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      “Path Planning based on Motion and Terrain Classification Uncertainty for Exploration Robots”

      This research aims at the safe autonomy of planetary exploration robots. Safe autonomy is required for planetary exploration robots because it takes a long communication delay time. However, due to various constraints, highly accurate localization and terrain classification are difficult. Therefore, this paper proposed a new chance-constrained path planning method that considers the probability of incorrect localization and classification.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who has supported this research. Encouraged by this award, I would like to continue to work on research to realize safe and efficient planetary exploration.
    • 2022.09.01:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻博士課程2年 Zhongyi Zhou(周 中一)さんが、2022年度Google Ph.D. Fellowship を受賞されました。

      <受賞した賞>
      Google Ph.D. Fellowship

      The Google Ph.D. Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising Ph.D. candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology.

      <受賞した研究について>
      I primarily study Interactive Machine Teaching, creating technologies to power human intelligence during the creation of their customized ML models.

      <今後の抱負・感想>
      I am happy to receive this award to support my research. I will continue studying Interactive Machine Teaching and aim to bring more exciting research to the community in the future.
    • 2022.08.27:
    • Bungo Konishi, Ph.D. Student (D2), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received ICETCI 2022 Best Presenter Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      "ICETCI 2022 Best Presenter Award"

      This award was given to the greatest paper presentation in the International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2022) which was held in Hyderabad, India.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      "Isotropization of complex-valued reservoir computing on 2-D dynamical systems"
      Reservoir computing (RC), which achieves highspeed learning through a reservoir layer with recurrent nonlinear mapping to a high dimensional space, has been used for prediction and estimation of sequential data. To deal with complex amplitude data such as synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data, RC has been extended to the complex domain, complex-valued reservoir computing (CVRC). In this paper, we analyze 2-D dynamical systems and examined the isotropic dynamics of CVRC. We show that CVRC preserves the periodicity of the input signal and has a high robustness to initial values compared to non-isotropic real-valued RC (RVRC).

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award. I am most grateful to Professor Akira Hirose and Associate Professor Ryo Natsuaki for giving me some advice. I will continue to contribute to the field of reservoir computing and remote sensing application.

      <Web link>
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20220827ICETCI_Konishi/
    • 2022.07.29:
    • Ryo Takahashi, Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Doctor 3rd, received IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award.

      <Name of award>
      IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award

      <About awarded research (activity)>
      Wearable sensors, which can be worn and carried around, are expected in the fields of healthcare and activity recognition. However, the sensors are bulky because they need to be equipped with a wireless communication module and battery for data collection, and they also require users to periodically charge the battery. This paper proposes a body-scale, highly-sensitive, textile-based reader coil that can wirelessly read out sensor values from battery-free sensors placed on different locations of the body. With this, we achieved an ideal wearable sensing platform where sensor is lightweight and thin, yet has no need of battery management.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award. I would like to thank all of my collaborators who have worked with me on this challenging research and who have supported me in my research life. I hope this paper will contribute to the future development of wearable sensing.
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/yamashita2022.html
    • 2022.07.25:
    • 矢谷研究室 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻修士2年 Shixian Geng (耿 世嫻)さんが、DICOMO2022優秀プレゼンテーション賞を受賞されました。

      <受賞した賞の名称と簡単な説明>
      DICOMO2022 (マルチメディア、分散、協調とモバイルシンポジウム) 優秀プレゼンテーション賞

      優れたプレゼンテーションを行った方を表彰する賞。
      https://dicomo.org/commendation

      <受賞された研究・活動について>
      患者が在宅で簡単に嚥下障害の有無を評価できるようにするため、スマートフォンで撮影した動画から口腔・嚥下機能を評価する手法を提案しました。
      https://iis-lab.org/research/oralfrality-inference/

      <今後の抱負・感想>
      I’m really happy to receive this award, and it was also a very meaningful experience for me to attend DICOMO2022. I will continue to conduct research on mobile health systems with such encouragement.
    • 2022.07.19:
    • JOSHI, Gunjan, Phd 1st year (as of 2022 July ), Electrical Engineering, received "IEEE - Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award" - First Prize".

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      "IEEE - Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award" - First Prize"

      IEEE - Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Excellence in Technical Communication Student Prize Award was presented in recognition of an outstanding 3 Minute Thesis oral presentation at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS 2022.

      <About awarded research>
      We presented our work on the use of Multi-Sensor Data using Explainable Neural Networks at the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at IGARSS-22. Our work explained how multiple satellite data can be fused together to more information about the Earth's surface. Additionally, we explained that Neural Networks which are traditionally considered to be "black boxes" can be explained by a simple yet effective method which we call the "Inverse-mapping".

      <Your impression & future plan>
      To be awarded and recognised at the IGARSS-22 has made me more confident. I am grateful to my supervisors Hirose-Sensei and Natsuaki-Sensei for their support. My next aim is to continue my research in this field and understand the effects of multi-sensor data fusion for cryosphere application.

      <Web link>
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20220721IGARSS3MT_Gunjan/
    • 2022.07.18:
    • Professor Akira Hirose, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems / Bioengineering, received IEEE GRSS Education Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      IEEE GRSS Education Award

      To Recognize Outstanding Educational Contributions to Geoscience and Remote Sensing, one of the three major awards in the society

      <About awarded contribution>
      This award is to recognize his outstanding educational contributions in raising many excellent researchers as well as encouragement for students and young researchers through tutorial lectures and other activities in the field.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Encouraged by the award, I continue to work further for education and research in the field.

      <Web link>
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20220718IEEE_GRSS_EduAward/
    • 2022.06.16:
    • Professor Le Duc Anh (Dept of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, CSRN) received the Young Investigator MBE Award, at the International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, ICMBE 2022.

      The citation is "MBE growth, physics and devices of new Fe-based III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors for semiconductor spintronics and topological quantum electronics".
      https://iop.eventsair.com/icmbe2022/awards
    • 2022.06.15:
    • Associate Professor Hiroaki Matsui, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electric Engineering and Information Systems, received UBE Industries Foundation. <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      UBE Industries Foundation

      The foundation gives an “academic incentive award” to those who have excellent and original research in natural science fields such as organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry, machine / measurement control / system, electricity / electronics, and medicine.

      <About awarded research>
      This study focuses on the control of electron carriers on surface plasmon resonances based on oxide semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) in the near-infrared (IR) region. We developed active devices of transparent thermal-shielding techniques with plasmonic characteristics that can control optical properties selectively in visible and near-IR ranges. Particularly, we used oxide semiconductors to demonstrate electric control of surface plasmons based on dynamic carrier accumulations on the NP surfaces for electron doping into the NPs. The electron carriers injected into the NPs influence the carrier accumulations and electronic states in the NPs. These new techniques contributed to thermal management in terms of thermal shielding and their properties in the near-IR range.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Surface plasmon studies on oxide semiconductors yielded important results, leading to social outcomes in the field of surface plasmons focusing on metal materials. Rather than riding a big tide, we would want to create mine, even if it is small. We strive for research that has a societal impact without being constrained by narrow academic fields or conventional wisdom.

      <Web link>
      Matsui Laboratory https://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/matsui-group/
    • 2022.06.09:
    • Akira Hirose, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems / Bioengineering, Professor, received Achievement Award, IEICE (Institute for Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers).

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Achievement Award, IEICE (Institute for Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers)

      To recognize excellent achievement on basic research including invention, theory, experiments and methods in the field of electronics, information and communication engineering

      <About awarded research>
      "For the pioneering work on complex-valued and quaternion neural networks"

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Encouraged by the award, I continue to work toward further progress valuable for human society.

      <Web link>
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20220609IEICE_AchievementAward/
    • 2022.06.02:
    • Mr. Tomoki Hotta (1st year, Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Tanaka Laboratory) received the Outstanding Student MBE Award for the following oral presentation at the International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy 2021:
      T. Hotta, K. Takase, K. Takiguchi, K. Sriharsha, L. D. Anh, and M. Tanaka
      "Quaternary-alloy ferromagnetic semiconductor (In,Ga,Fe)Sb"
      21st International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Virtual Conference, Mexico, September 6-9, 2021.
      Tomoki Hotta, Outstanding Student MBE Award, announced on March 30, 2022
      at the 21st International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy,
      Hosted by Cinvestav (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute), Mexico.
    • 2022.06.02:
    • 金田(高田)真吾さん(電気系工学専攻D2、大矢研究室)が応用物理学会より下記の2つの賞を受賞し、2022年3月に開催された春季応用物理学会にて受賞記念講演を行いました。

      金田真梧 2022年3月22日 応用物理学会講演奨励賞
      2021年秋季第82回応用物理学会学術講演会における下記の講演に対して
      Shingo Kaneta-Takada, Yuki. K. Wakabayashi, Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Toshihiro Nomura, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Hiroshi Irie, Kosuke Takiguchi, Shinobu Ohya, Masaaki Tanaka, Yoshitaka Taniyasu, and Hideki Yamamoto "Quantum limit transport and Two-dimensional Weyl fermions in an epitaxial ferromagnetic oxide SrRuO3 thin films"
      第82回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会, 13p-S302-10, オンライン, 2021年9月13日.

      金田真梧 2022年3月22日 応用物理学会スピントロニクス研究会 英語講演奨励賞
      2021年秋季第82回応用物理学会学術講演会における下記の講演に対して
      Shingo Kaneta-Takada, Yuki. K. Wakabayashi, Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Toshihiro Nomura, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Hiroshi Irie, Kosuke Takiguchi, Shinobu Ohya, Masaaki Tanaka, Yoshitaka Taniyasu, and Hideki Yamamoto "Quantum limit transport and Two-dimensional Weyl fermions in an epitaxial ferromagnetic oxide SrRuO3 thin films"
      第82回応用物理学会秋季学術講演会, 13p-S302-10, オンライン, 2021年9月13日.
    • 2022.05.27:
    • Kosuke Yamamoto (M1), Ginshi Shimojima (M1) received Mitou Super Creator. <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Mitou Super Creator
      The award given to a creator who has demonstrated particularly outstanging ability at the end of a project.
      https://www.ipa.go.jp/jinzai/mitou/2021/20220527.html

      <About awarded research>
      We developed an iOS application called "Muscle Supporter" which automatically recognize and count the type and number of times of muscle training just by wearing it. Focusing on reducing the number of the operations required by user, the contents of muscle training are automatically recorded with a single tap before workout.
      https://www.muscle-supporter.com/

      <Your impression & future plan>
      Kosuke Yamamoto:
      The "mitou" project has come to an end, and I am grateful to have received the award of "Mitou Super Creator". Although the project has come to an end, it is a new staring point for me, and I will continue to work hard to live up to the award.

      Ginshi Shimojima:
      I am very happy to receive this award. I will continue to devote myself to my work with the valuable experience, skills, and friends I have gained in this project.
    • 2022.05.22:
    • 竹内研究室 合田晃(博士2年)、松井千尋(特任助教)、竹内健(教授)の研究成果が、 IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) Conference 2022において、Best Paper Awardを受賞しました。
      https://ewh.ieee.org/conf/edtm/2022/award/index.html

      [論文]
      Akira Goda, Chihiro Matsui and Ken Takeuchi, “Inter Spike Interval and Stochasticity Engineering of Floating Gate Technology-based Neurons for Spiking Neural Network Hardware”, IEEE Electron Devices Technology and Manufacturing (EDTM) Conference 2022, March 8, 2022.

      [概要]
      Floating gate型不揮発性メモリセルをspiking neural network(SNN)におけるニューロン回路に適用し、 Leaky-integrate-fire(LIF)動作とstochastic spikingが制御良く実現できることを示した。注入電子のトンネリング時間の確率的ばらつきに起因するISI stochasticityを解析し、 ISI stochasticityの度合いはスパイクに必要な注入電子数でユニバーサルに決定され、デバイスのサイズやスパイクしきい値を調整することで 所望のstochastic特性が発現可能であることを明らかにした。
    • 2022.04.01:
    • 竹内雅樹さん(東京大学 大学院工学系研究科 電気系工学専攻 関野研究室 博士後期課程1年)らの研究がCNNで取り上げられました。

      <研究メンバー>
      竹内雅樹(東京大学 大学院工学系研究科電気系工学専攻博士 後期課程1年)
      Ahn Jaesol(東京大学 工学部電子情報工学科 学部4年)
      Lee Kunhak( 東京大学 機械工学科 学部4年)
      副島裕太郎(東京大学 工学部電気電子工学科 学部4年)
      関野正樹(東京大学 大学院工学系研究科バイオエンジニアリング専攻教授)
      (学年・所属は掲載時)

      <放映された番組の名称と簡単な説明>
      放送局:CNN
      番組名:Dr.グプタのバイタルサイン
      説明:健康、医療に関する最新情報をアメリカの現役医師が解説する番組です。

      <放映された研究・活動について>
      喉頭がんなどの病気で失われた声を取り戻すハンズフリー型電気式人工喉頭の開発
      (研究プロジェクト名:Syrinx)

      <今後の抱負・感想>
      今回取り上げていただけたのは、指導教員のご指導、ならびに研究を一緒に行っているメンバーの協力によって研究が行えたことと、家族からの温かい支援があったからこそだと存じております。これを励みに、今後もさらに研究に邁進してまいります。

      <参考ウェブサイト>
      https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/22/health/syrinx-artificial-electrolarynx-japan-spc-scn-intl/index.html

      また、本放送は4月2日、3日にCATVなどにより日本でも視聴することが可能となります。
      https://www2.jctv.co.jp/cnnj/introduction/?id=791
    • 2022.03.10:
    • Takuya Kunihara, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Student Presentation Award of the ASJ meeting.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Student Presentation Award of the ASJ meeting

      <About awarded research (activity)>
      Analysis of learners’ shadowing based on their convergence to and divergence from model speech and their perception of model speech
      Takuya Kunihara, Chuanbo Zhu, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu, Noriko Nakanishi

      <Your comment & future plan>
      This study showed good possibility of quantifying various aspects of L2 speech communication such as pronunciation, listening, and internalization at the same time by analyzing shadowing utterances. The presentation was made a half year ago and I’m very happy that it was highly evaluated. I heard that the proposed method will be introduced to English education (Academic Communication) in School of Engineering since October 2022. Although I’ll get graduated soon, I hope that younger students of our lab. will make a good system to support UTokyo students.
    • 2022.02.10:
    • Liao et al. have reported "Quantum analog annealing of gain-dissipative Ising machine driven by colored gaussian noise" in Advanced Theory and Simulations. This paper has been selected for the front cover.

      <Authors>
      Zhiqiang Liao, Kaijie Ma, Md Shamim Sarker, Siyi Tang, Hiroyasu Yamahara, Munetoshi Seki, Hitoshi Tabata

      <Abstract>
      Gain-dissipative Ising machines (GIMs) are a type of quantum analog equipment that can rapidly determine the optimal solution for combinatorial optimization problems. When the noise intensity is significantly lower than the fixed point of the system, the performance of a GIM is not influenced by the fluctuation of the noise intensity. However, the noise in this study is limited to Gaussian white noise. The influence of prevalent colored noise on GIMs has not been researched. In this study, the influence of common-colored noise on the performance of GIMs is numerically investigated. The results of a domain clustering dynamics analysis reveal that red noise can better suppress the generation of the noise-induced irregular temporary domain. Furthermore, several prevalent MAXCUT problem topologies, including the Moebius ladder, random Moebius ladder, and 2D random lattice, are adopted as test benchmarks. The results reveal that GIMs influenced by white, blue, and violet noise perform better at low-intensity noise condition. In contrast, pink and red noise-injected GIMs demonstrate higher performances when applied to MAXCUT topologies with both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic connections under larger noise intensity conditions. This indicates that the noise dispersion can be used as an additional hyperparameter to optimize the performance of GIMs.

      Press Release : https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/shared/press/data/setnws_202202101302497695676746_939969.pdf

      Advanced Theory and Simulations : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adts.202100497
    • 2022.01.27:
    • Koji Yatani, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), School of Engineering/Emerging Design and Informatics Course, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, received IPSJ Microsoft Faculty Award.

      <The name of the award and its short description>
      IPSJ Microsoft Faculty Award:
      This award is given to a young researcher who has made an outstanding international contribution to research and development in a major field of informatics, and is expected further achievements and contributions.

      <About awarded research (activity)>
      Blending security interfaces into users' main interaction tasks

      <Your comment & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award, and I strongly believe that this achievement would not be possible without the high-quality work achieved through collaboration with my lab members and the warm support of my family. I keep letting my passion drive my research.

      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/microsoft-award.html
    • 2022.01.22:
    • Zhongyi Zhou, D2, Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering and Anran Xu, M2, Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering received Best Presentation Award at Ubicomp/ISWC '21.

      <The name of the award and its short description>
      Best Presentation Award at Ubicomp/ISWC '21

      This award recognizes authors who made an outstanding presentation on their papers. Program committee members re-reviewed the presentation of 10 nominated works from the audience and selected the best presentation per time block.

      <About awarded research (activity)>
      In this work, we created a system to support practices of synchronized dancing using interactive visualizations and computer vision analysis. The system can provide quick feedback to amateur dancers during their iterative dance practices.

      <Your comment & future plan>
      Zhongyi Zhou;
      It is a great honor to receive this award. I will continue my research in HCI and bring more exciting projects to the community.

      Anran Xu;
      I really appreciate that researchers and dancers return positive feedback on SyncUP. I am delighted to see people's consent on SyncUP's usefulness. We plan to further study how to combine interaction designs to fertilize the usage of AI.
    • 2022.01.10:
    • 竹内研究室 樋口和英さん、松井千尋さん、三澤奈央子さん、竹内健教授の研究成果が、第33回コンピュータシステム・シンポジウム(ComSys2021)において、最優秀ポスター発表賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.ipsj.or.jp/sig/os/index.php?ComSys2021+%A5%DD%A5%B9%A5%BF%A1%BC%A5%BB%A5%C3%A5%B7%A5%E7%A5%F3

      機械学習のエネルギー効率を100倍以上高める、CiM(Computation-in-Memory)の性能や精度を評価するプラットフォームを開発しました。 機械学習応用、例えば画像認識では、ある程度のエラーが許容されます。人も完璧ではないですから。本研究では人の様にエラーを許容するApproximateコンピューティングを評価するプラットフォームを開発しました。 このプラットフォームを用いて、今後は、既存のGPUなどと比べて100倍以上エネルギー効率が高い、エッジデバイス向けのAIチップの研究を行います。
    • 2021.12.22:
    • レデゥックアイン助教(総合、電気系)、高瀬健吾氏(研究当時電気系工学専攻 修士2年)、瀧口耕介氏(博士3年)、田中雅明教授(電気系工学専攻、スピンセンター)らの トポロジカル・ディラック半金属α-Snに関する論文がAdvanced Materials誌に出版され、Frontispieceに選ばれて、表紙を飾りました。
      https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202170404

      Le Duc Anh, Kengo Takase, Takahiro Chiba, Yohei Kota, Kosuke Takiguchi, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal α-Sn with High Quantum Mobility"
      Advanced Materials 33, pp.2104645/1-9 (2021).
      https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104645

      Le Duc Anh, Masaaki Tanaka, and co-workers report the epitaxial growth of elemental topological Dirac semimetal α-Sn with the highest quality thus far. The very high quantum mobilities in these samples allow a quantitative characterization of the nontrivial interfacial and bulk band structure of α-Sn via quantum transport in combination with first-principles calculations. The results establish α-Sn as an excellent model system to study novel topological phases and device applications.
    • 2021.12.16:
    • Takuya Sasatani, Project assistant professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Japan.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Name:
      MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Japan

      Explanation:
      Innovators Under 35 was established in 1999. In addition to the global competition, regional editions are held in Asia Pacific, China, Europe, India, Latin America, MENA, and now Japan. MIT Technology Review launched Innovators Under 35 Japan in 2020 as the seventh regional edition in the world. The mission of this competition is to discover and share with the world the talented individuals who are actively using technology to solve the societal problems facing Japan, such as the declining birthrate and aging population, labor shortage, and the aging social infrastructure. As the competition entered the second year in 2021, it is searching for young innovators in computers, electronics, software, the Internet, artificial intelligence, robotics, transportation, and the newly-added communications and sustainable energy technical fields.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Wireless power transfer has the promise to eliminate power cords and radically change how we interact with technologies. However, existing approaches fail to embody this vision because achieving “high-power” and “wide-range” all at once in wireless power is challenging. This study explored techniques for drastically extending the powering range of magnetoquasistatic wireless power technologies. The presented approaches enable high-power, high-efficiency, and safe wireless power transfer over large areas, which can open new avenues of device modalities that were unavailable due to limitations in power supply technologies.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to be selected as Innovators under 35 Japan. I want to thank my fantastic collaborators for working on challenging research projects together and everyone that supported my research projects. I will keep advancing wireless power technologies towards deployment in the real world.
    • 2021.12.16:
    • Lecturer Atsutake Kosuge, Systems Design Lab., Graduate School of Engineering, has been selected as one of the innovators under the age of 35 who will create the future in the "Innovators Under 35 Japan 2021" awards organized by MIT Technology Review (Japan edition).

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      MIT Technology Review Japan Innovators Under 35

      Lecturer Atsutake Kosuge has been selected as one of the innovators under the age of 35 who will create the future in the "Innovators Under 35 Japan 2021" awards organized by MIT Technology Review (Japan edition).
      The "Innovators Under 35 Japan 2021" is an international award sponsored by the MIT Technology Review, the media division of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. In the past, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Facebook co-founder, chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg have also won the award. The Innovators Under 35 Japan is the Japanese version of the awards, and this is the second year that the awards have been held. Over 350 domestic and international candidates were applied for the award, and 15 were finally selected as the winners.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Research topic: Ultra-low power AI chip for factory and construction automations
      Tasks such as image recognition using machine learning require a large amount of computing power. With the impasse of "Moore's Law", cutting-edge semiconductor chips have become power consuming and costly. This has been a barrier to the widespread adoption of automation technologies that require large numbers of semiconductor chips. Lecturer Kosuge has developed a wired logic AI chip, that can execute AI algorithms two orders of magnitude faster and lower power than conventional CPUs and GPUs.

      Details: https://www.technologyreview.jp/l/innovators_jp/261818/Atsutake-Kosuge/
    • 2021.12.14:
    • ”Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science(FiO LS )” において、岩本敏教授が米国光学会(The Optical Society:OPTICA)より2021年度のフェロー称号を授与されました。 フォトニック結晶およびトポロジカルフォトニクスに関する独創的かつ先駆的な貢献を評価されたものです。

      <受賞のコメント>
      この度、米国光学会Fellow 称号を頂き大変光栄に存じます。今回対象となった研究成果は、研究室の学生の皆さん、学内外の多くの共同研究者の皆様と長年にわたり培ってきたものであり、ここに厚くお礼申し上げます。 また、長年にわたりご指導いただく荒川泰彦先生(現在、東京大学ナノ量子情報エレクトロニクス研究機構・特任教授)をはじめ、日頃より議論いただく関係分野の諸先生方に深くお礼申し上げます。 これを励みに今後も一層研究活動に精進するとともに、コミュニティへの貢献にも努める所存です。

      <先端科学技術研究センターHP リンク>
      https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/news/report/20211130.html
    • 2021.12.13:
    • Kentaro Matsuura (D2), Morikawa Narusue Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Student Best Paper Award (1st Best Paper Award + WiPoT Award) at 2021 Asian Wireless Power Transfer Workshop (AWPT2021).

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award >
      Student Best Paper Award (1st Best Paper Award + WiPoT Award)
      This award is presented to the author of the most outstanding research result among the papers at AWPT2021 whose first author is a student.

      <About awarded research(activity) >
      Paper title: Experimental Validation of Communication-Less Receiver-Side Resonant Frequency Tuning for Magnetic Resonant Wireless Power Transfer Systems

      Magnetic resonant wireless power transfer is expected to be applied to recharge electric vehicles and mobile devices since it can provide highly efficient power over a transmission distance of approximately 1 meter. However, the presence of metal, water, etc., in the vicinity of the power receiver causes the resonance frequency of the power receiver to change, resulting in a decrease in the power transfer efficiency. In this study, we proposed a mechanism that automatically corrects the resonant frequency at the receiver side without using wireless communication with the transmitter and experimentally demonstrated that power transmission with high transmission efficiency is possible even under the influence of the surrounding environment.

      <Your impression & future plan >
      I am very honored to receive this award. I believe that it is essential to build a system that is easy for users to use in order to spread the use of wireless power transfer systems. In the future, I would like to implement the proposed method in various wireless power transfer devices, conduct evaluations, and demonstrate its effectiveness.
    • 2021.11.22:
    • JOSHI Gunjan, Phd 1st year (as of 2021 December), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, received "JSPRS Award".

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      "JSPRS Award"
      Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) 2021 awards Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) prize to young authors less than 35 who have presented excellent full papers.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      We presented our work on the fusion of satellite data which was used to generate landcover maps of earthquake damage-affected regions in Indonesia.

      We also showcased the explainability of the neural network by introducing the "Inverse Mapping" dynamics, through which we were able to explain the significance of the different features we used in our study.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      It is a great honour to be recognised and this award has motivated me further to work in this research topic. My next step is to focus on the fusion of satellite data for remote monitoring of the cryosphere.

      <Web link>
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20211122ACRS_Gunjan/
    • 2021.11.17:
    • Kentaro Matsuura (D2), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Best Interactive Presentation Award from IEICE Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      IEICE Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking (RISING2021): Best Interactive Presentation Award

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Kentaro Matsuura, Koeru Shin, Daisuke Kobuchi, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Hiroyuki Morikawa, "Study on Synchronization Strategy for Maximizing Received Power in Distributed Microwave Wireless Power Transfer Systems, " Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking (RISING2021), no.67, Nov. 2021.

      Distributed cooperative microwave power transfer (DMPT) has attracted much attention due to its scalability of the power transfer area and its safety provided by pinpoint power transfer. According to our analysis, the synchronization period between power transmitters is an important parameter affecting the performance of DMPT. This study analyzed the trade-off between the fast response of the synchronization circuit and its accuracy and proposed a quick and easy-to-use design method of the synchronization period maximizing the received power.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very honored to receive this award. At present, we are in the early stages of investigating DMPT systems. We will continue to work on the research and development of technologies that will contribute to the early practical application of DMPT systems.
    • 2021.11.17:
    • Daisuke Kobuchi (D1), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Best Interactive Presentation Award from IEICE Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      IEICE Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking (RISING2021): Best Interactive Presentation Award

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Daisuke Kobuchi, Kentaro Matsuura, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Hiroyuki Morikawa, "Automated Coil Design for Transmitter and Receiver for Low-leakage and High-efficiency Inductive Power Transfer based on the Optimum Mesh Current Distribution," Cross-Field Research Association of Super-Intelligent Networking (RISING2021), no.70, Nov. 2021.

      Achieving high-efficiency inductive power transfer with suppressing magnetic field leakage is an important issue for practical use. This study proposes an automatic design method for transmitter and receiver coils which can achieve high transfer efficiency and cancel out the magnetic field leakage at the same time.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very happy to receive this honorable award. I would like to continue my research so that this automatic design method can be used as one of the solutions to the leakage magnetic field, which may become a major problem when wireless power transmission becomes widespread in the future.
    • 2021.11.11:
    • Project Assistant Professor Akio Higo ,Project Researcher Yukinori Ochiai, and Associate Professor Yoshio Mita, Systems Design Center (d.lab), recieved The Sensor and Micromachine Society of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan 38th Sensor symposium Excellence Technical Paper Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      The Sensor and Micromachine Society of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan 38th Sensor symposium Excellence Technical Paper Award

      This award is given to oral presentations over 36 years old with excellent research contents and presentations at the 38th Symposium on the Sensor Symposium at the Sensor and Micromachine Society of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in Japan. This year, nine finalists were announced on the first day of the symposium, then one best technical paper award and four excellent technical paper awards were selected. Most of the awards were given to companies themselves or to joint research groups between universities and companies. Our U-Tokyo group alone was only selected.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Nanogap with Concave Structure by Variable-shaped Beam/Character Projection Electron Beam Lithography

      It is hard to realize the high throughput exposure by the point beam electron beam exposure systems. In contrast, the variable-shaped beam (VSB) method can realize the high throughput due to approximation of the rectangular shots, but it needs to overcome the nanogap issue about the nano-bridge. Our approach is to first realize pattern errors and then solve the issue one by one to realize the nanogap. In the near future, we will realize the method of accurate nanopatterns using machine learning.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      We are honored to receive this award for our recent research on nanostructure fabrication technology by high-speed and high-resolution electron-beam lithography technology. Among the racing for the semiconductor research field in the world, our research which is the development of the nanofabrication technology by using the character projection method in F7000S VD-02, Advantest corporation in Takeda Super Cleanroom with the MEXT nanotechnology platform and Advanced Research Infrastructure for Materials and Nanotechnology in Japan can lead the world in this field. We aim to realize the unique nanofabrication technology from U-Tokyo.
    • 2021.10.14:
    • レ デゥック アイン助教(総合研究機構、電気系)、高瀬健吾氏(研究当時電気系工学専攻修士2年)、瀧口耕介氏(博士3年)、田中雅明教授(電気系、スピンセンター)のグループは、 福島工業高等専門学校の千葉裕講師、小田洋平准教授との共同研究で、世界最高品質のアルファ-スズ(α-Sn)薄膜をIII-V族化合物半導体インジウムアンチモン(InSb)(001)基板上に結晶成長(エピタキシャル成長) させることに成功し、α-Sn薄膜様々な量子伝導現象とトポロジカル物性を初めて明らかにしました。この研究成果は、新しいトポロジカル電子材料と量子デバイス技術のプラットフォームの形成に道を開くものと期待されます。 この研究成果はAdvanced Materials (10月14日オンライン版)にて発表されました。
      <論文>
      Le Duc Anh, Kengo Takase, Takahiro Chiba, Yohei Kota, Kosuke Takiguchi, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "Elemental Topological Dirac Semimetal α-Sn with High Quantum Mobility"
      DOI:10.1002/adma.202104645
      https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104645
    • 2021.07.18:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻の松井千尋(特任助教)、トープラサートポンカシディット(講師)、高木信一(教授)、竹内健(教授)の研究成果が、 2021 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuitsにおいて、Best Demo Paper Awardを受賞しました。
      https://vlsisymposium.org/best-demo-paper-award.html

      強誘電体トランジスタを駆使した、従来の64倍、AIを高速・低電力に実行するアクセラレータの発表です。 大規模化が進むAIを低電力、リアルタイムに実行するには、デバイス・回路・ソフトを融合したイノベーションが必要です。デモ動画はYouTubeで公開されているので、ご覧下さい。
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FuBnHsHClY&t=118s
    • 2021.07.07:
    • レ デゥック アイン助教(総合、電気系)、小林正起准教授(電気系、スピンセンター)、吉田博上席研究員(スピンセンター)、田中雅明教授(電気系、スピンセンター)は、岩佐義宏教授(物理工学専攻)、 福島鉄也特任准教授(物性研究所)、新屋ひかり助教(東北大学電気通信研究所)らとの共同研究で、磁性元素を配列した強磁性超格子構造を作製し、巨大磁気抵抗を実現、 究極の原子層結晶成長法を駆使したスピントロニクス機能の実現可能性を示しました。
      この研究成果は、英国科学誌Nature Communicationsに7月7日に掲載されました。
      <論文>
      Le Duc Anh, Taiki Hayakawa, Yuji Nakagawa, Hikari Shinya, Tetsuya Fukushima, Hiroshi Katayama-Yoshida, Yoshihiro Iwasa, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "Ferromagnetism and giant magnetoresistance in zinc-blende FeAs monolayers embedded in semiconductor structures"
      Nature Communications 12, pp.4201/1-10 (2021).
      DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-24190-w
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24190-w
    • 2021.06.19:
    • Ruiyan Chen,Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering received Poster presentation award of Speech Committee Meeting of IEICE and ASJ.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Poster presentation award of Speech Committee Meeting of IEICE and ASJ

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Simulation of Body-conducted Speech and Synthesis of One’s Own Speech with Sound-proof Earmuffs and Bone-conducted Microphones,
      Ruiyan Chen, Tazuko Nishimura, Nobuaki Minematsu, Daisuke Saito (UTokyo)

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I’m very honored to receive poster presentation award from the SP committee. My work was on automatic prediction of own’s own voices from air-conducted voices. In the master program, I’m a member of another lab., and I’ll study hard there, too.
    • 2021.05.28:
    • 佐藤正寛講師、熊田亜紀子教授、日髙邦彦名誉教授が「令和3年 電気学会 電気学術振興賞 進歩賞」を受賞しました。

      表彰件名:第一原理および機械学習を用いた誘電絶縁材料の電気物性予測法の創成
           佐藤 正寛, 熊田 亜紀子, 日髙 邦彦

      電気学術振興賞 進歩賞は、電気に関する学術・技術において、新規な概念・理論・材料・デバイス・システム・方式等を新たに提案、 あるいはこれらの提案を実証した者、および電気に関する製品・設備等を新たに完成または改良し、顕著な成果をあげた者に贈られる賞です。
    • 2021.05.14:
    • Mako Miyatake, Project Lecturer Koya Narumi, Professor Yuji Sekiya, and Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems) received Best Demo Honorable Mention Award from The 2021 ACM CHI Virtual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’21).

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      CHI’21 People’s Choice Best Demo Honorable Mention Award

      CHI, one of the top conferences on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), was held online during May 8 - 13, 2021. Best Demo Honorable Mention Award was given to the second best demonstration in the demo session of the conference. The awarded demo was on the paper “Flower Jelly Printer: Slit Injection Printing for Parametrically Designed Flower Jelly.”

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Mako Miyatake, Koya Narumi, Yuji Sekiya, and Yoshihiro Kawahara. 2021. Demonstrating Flower Jelly Printer for Parametrically Designed Flower Jelly. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 166, 1–4. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451541

      <Your impression & future plan>
      We, the co-authors of Flower Jelly Printer, are all very proud of this award. Considering a better way to demonstrate our work for CHI that took place online due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to the award. We believe our research will enhance the freedom of food and help achieve an inclusive society where diverse people can join cultural and economic activities. We will keep on working on proof-of-concept experiments for improvement and commercialization of our technology.
    • 2021.04.06:
    • Chuanbo Zhu, Minematsu laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Outstanding Presentation Award of the Annual Meeting of Phonetic Society of Japan.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Outstanding Presentation Award of the Annual Meeting of Phonetic Society of Japan
      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Analyses on Instantaneous Perception of Japanese English by Listeners with Various Language Profiles,
      Chuanbo Zhu, Zhenchao Lin, Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Noriko Nakanishi (Kobe Gakuin University)

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very pleased and grateful to accept this award. In order to make it a more practical technology, I would like to focus on the automatic evaluation on instantaneous intelligibility of Japanese English perceived by various listeners.
    • 2021.03.24:
    • 川原研究室の学部4年生の藤次徹也が、情報処理学会ヒューマンコンピュータインタラクション(HCI)研究会において、第191回研究会学生奨励賞を受賞しました。(HCI191 2021年1月28日~1月29日)

      「布を用いた折り紙に向けた樹脂パターンの配置手法」藤次徹也(東京大学), 野間裕太(東京大学), 鳴海紘也(東京大学), 斉藤一哉(九州大学), 川原圭博(東京大学)
      http://www.sighci.jp/
    • 2021.03.23:
    • Kentaro Matsuura, D1, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received IEICE Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer: Young Researcher Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      IEICE Technical Committee on Wireless Power Transfer: Young Researcher Award

      Young Researcher Award is given to presenters under the age of 33 who present excellent papers in the regular workshops of IEICE Technical Committee on WPT.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Kentaro Matsuura, Daisuke Kobuchi, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Hiroyuki Morikawa, "Communication-Less Receiver-Side Resonant Frequency Tuning for Wireless Power Transfer Using Magnetic Resonant Coupling, " IEICE Technical Report, WPT2020-26, Dec. 2020.

      Magnetic resonant coupling wireless power transfer is expected to be applied to recharge electric vehicles and mobile devices since it can provide highly efficient power over a transmission distance of up to approximately 1 meter. However, the presence of metal, water, etc. in the vicinity of the power receiver causes the resonance frequency of the power receiver to change, resulting in a decrease in the efficiency of wireless power transfer. In this study, we have developed a communication-less receiver-side resonant frequency tuning mechanism that cancels out the effects of resonant frequency fluctuations using a variable reactor composed of purely electronic components. We have realized a wireless power transfer system that enables highly efficient and stable power transfer even under less than ideal operating conditions.

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I am very pleased to receive this honorable award. For the widespread use of wireless power transfer systems, I believe that it is necessary to enable stable power transfer in any environment. In the future, I would like to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method in applications that are more in line with actual settings.
    • 2021.03.11:
    • Professor Nobuaki Minematsu, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Basic research on speech communication and its application to language education.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Basic research on speech communication and its application to language education

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      2020 Fellow of IEICE

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I’m very honored to have been chosen as one of the IEICE 2020 Fellows as my research activities on speech communication and technical support for language education were highly evaluated. As IEICE fellow, I’ll try my best to contribute to research activities of those fields in domestic and international contexts.
    • 2021.03.09:
    • Eisuke Konno, Minematsu laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Student Encouragement Award of IEICE Acoustic and Ultrasound Society.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Student Encouragement Award of IEICE Acoustic and Ultrasound Society

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      A quantitative measure of discriminability between NMF dictionaries
      Eisuke Konno, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo)

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I’m honored to receive a student encouragement award for results of my master thesis. I didn’t go to the doctoral coarse and am working now for a company. I'll work hard there making use of experiences in my postgraduate days.
    • 2021.02.17:
    • Associate Professor Tomoyuki Yokota, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received The 3rd Japan Open Innovation Prize from Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy Award for “Development of sheet-type image sensor capable of simultaneous measurement of biometric authentication and vital signs”

      https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/stmain/20210217joip.html
    • 2021.01.25:
    • Ryoma Kondo (D3), Takashi Ubukata (D2), Kentaro Matsuura (D1), and Hirofumi Ohzeki (M2) received Best Performance Award at ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge Global Round in Japan.

      ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge, conducted by ITU, the International Telecommunications Union, is an international competition to solve 5G network problems with machine learning. In the Japan round the Best Performance Awards were presented to the top three teams that qualified as finalists.

      <About awarded research>
      Autonomous detection of faults within the Internet core network, which is interoperable between internet service providers, is required for high-quality 5G networks. It is difficult to find effective features in a wide range of time-series data and to manage routing path logs in machine learning. We therefore developed a failure detection method based on an effective selection of features using entropy and semantic interpretation of routing information using natural language models.
      https://www.ieice.org/~rising/jpn/AI-5G/
    • 2021.01.24:
    • Koji Yatani (EEIS, Graduate School of Engineering (GSII, Emerging design and informatics course), Associate Professor) received Japan ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter Distinguished Young Researcher Award.

      This award was given to a young researcher who has outstanding research achievements and substantial contributions to the HCI community, and is actively leading this field.
    • 2021.01.07:
    • Zhongyi Zhou (Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Yatani Lab. D1) received Student Encouragement Award at IPSJ UBI workshop.
      <About awarded research>
      "A Synchronized Dance Practice Support System Using Human Pose Analysis"
    • 2020.12.17:
    • Prof. Ryosuke Furuta of The University of Tokyo, an alumnus of Yamasaki lab, has won IEEE SPS Japan Young Author Best Paper Award for the following publication.

      Ryosuke Furuta, Naoto Inoue, and Toshihiko Yamasaki, "PixelRL: Fully Convolutional Network with Reinforcement Learning for Image Processing," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1704-1719, 2020.

      https://www.ieee-jp.org/section/tokyo/chapter/SP-01/sp.htm
    • 2020.12.14:
    • Associate Professor Masaharu Kobayashi (System Design Research Center (d.lab)/Institute of Industrial Science) received 2019 IEEE EDS Leo Esaki Award.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      2019 IEEE EDS Leo Esaki Award
      This award is named after Prof. Leo Esaki, who is a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and established in 2019. The award is presented to the authors of the best paper in IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society. Prof. Kobayashi and his group are honored to receive the 1st award.

      <About awarded research(activity)>
      On the research achievement of ferroelectric-HfO2 tunnel junction memory using next-generation ferroelectric material.

      <Impression & future plan>
      We are very honoed to receive this award. We will continue to pursue innovative integrated devices for AI/IoT application.
    • 2020.12.04:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ 大矢忍准教授、小林正起准教授、Pham Nam Hai客員大講座准教授、田中雅明教授らは、日本原子力研究開発機構物質科学研究センターの竹田幸治研究主幹、東京大学大学院理学系研究科の藤森淳教授(現:名誉教授)、京都産業大学、東京工業大学との共同研究で、強磁性半導体(Ga,Mn)Asが常磁性状態から強磁性状態に変化していく過程を詳細に観察することにより、原子レベルでの強磁性発現メカニズムを明らかにすることに成功しました。
      この研究成果は、米国応用物理学誌「Journal of Applied Physics」電子版に12月4日(日本時間)に掲載され、掲載号の表紙を飾るとともにFeatured Article(注目論文)として解説記事と併せて公開されました。
      <論文>
      Yukiharu Takeda, Shinobu Ohya, Pham Nam Hai, Masaki Kobayashi, Yuji Saitoh, Hiroshi Yamagami, Masaaki Tanaka, and Atsushi Fujimori
      "Direct observation of the magnetic ordering process in the ferromagnetic semiconductor Ga1-xMnxAs via soft x-ray magnetic circular dichroism"
      J. Appl. Phys. 128, pp.213902/1-11 (2020).
      https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0031605
    • 2020.11.30:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ 田中・大矢研究室のJiang Miaoさん(2020年9月電気系博士課程修了、現在特任研究員)、大矢忍 准教授、田中雅明 教授らは、強磁性半導体単層の垂直磁化薄膜を作製し、物質内部の相対論的量子力学の効果である「スピン軌道トルク」を電流で発生させることにより、世界最小の電流密度で磁化を反転させることに成功しました。 この研究成果は、英国科学誌Nature Electronics(2020年11月30日電子版)に出版されました。
      <論文>
      Miao Jiang, Hirokatsu Asahara, Shoichi Sato, Shinobu Ohya and Masaaki Tanaka, "Suppression of the field-like torque and ultra-efficient magnetisation switching in a spin-orbit ferromagnet", Nature Electronics, published on November 30, 2020.
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00500-w
    • 2020.11.16:
    • Associate Professor Masaharu Kobayashi (System Design Research Center (d.lab)/Institute of Industrial Science) received KIOXIA Corporation Research Award on the research of multi-scale modeling of ferroelectric-HfO2 tunnel junction memory for storage and AI hardware applications.
      This award recognizes researchers who are making remarkable achievements in science and engineering based on semiconductor technology.
    • 2020.11.16:
    • Somchart Fakgeaw (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, PhD graduates at 2017) received PhD. Dissertation Award 2021 from Thai National Research Council.
      This award honors Thai PhD graduates who did high quality research.
      <About awarded research>
      Achieving Expressive, Scalable, and Efficiently Revocable Collaborative Data Access Control in Multi-Authority Cloud
    • 2020.11.16:
    • Yamasaki lab has won IEICE Human Communication Group Paper Award.

      楢原 太郎, 汪 雪テイ, 山崎 俊彦
      「不動産間取り図から主観的に感じる魅力度と間取り要素の関連解析」
      (資料番号:MVE2019-13)
    • 2020.11.05:
    • Koji Yatani (Associate Professor, EEIS) was featured on People of ACM!
      “People of ACM” highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members who are making a difference in advancing computing as a science and a profession.
      This is an interview after he received IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research.
      https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2020/koji-yatani
    • 2020.11.03:
    • Hiroto Tamura (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, D2) and Project Associate Professor Gouhei Tanaka received the Best Paper Award (3rd Prize) of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN).
      This award was given to three papers among 139 papers accepted in ICANN.

      This paper proposes an improved online algorithm for training a reservoir computing model to reduce memory consumption and shows that the proposed algorithm is promising for its hardware implementation.
      Paper: H. Tamura and G. Tanaka, "Two-Step FORCE Learning Algorithm for Fast Convergence in Reservoir Computing," In International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Springer, pp. 459-469, 2020
    • 2020.10.01:
    • 電気系工学専攻の松橋教授が令和二年度産業標準化事業表彰(経済産業大臣表彰)を受賞しました。
      <受賞された活動>
      エネルギーと環境に関するISO規格の国内委員長としての貢献
    • 2020.09.17:
    • Professor Yoshihiro Kawahara, Research Associate Yoshiaki Narusue, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, and other researchers received Distinguished Paper Award from the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT).
      This award rewards the best papers published in the journal over the course of the year.
      <About awarded research>
      Kazunobu Sumiya, Takuya Sasatani, Yuki Nishizawa, Kenji Tsushio, Yoshiaki Narusue, and Yoshihiro Kawahara, “Alvus: A Reconfigurable 2-D Wireless Charging System,” PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (ACM IMWUT), Vol. 3, No. 2, Article No. 68, June 2019.
      This paper presents a reconfigurable wireless charging system that enables the construction of wireless charging surfaces by simply laying ready-made modules. Our system can retrofit everyday surfaces (desks, shelves, floor, etc.) into wireless charging surfaces in an instant and interactive manner.
      https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3332533
    • 2020.06.15:
    • Research Associate Yoshiaki Narusue received ELEX Editorial Contribution Award from IEICE Electronics Express.
      <About awarded activity>
      This award recognizes an associate editor who has made outstanding contributions to the editing and paper review on IEICE Electronics Express (ELEX). It is his great honor to receive this award. He will continue to contribute his efforts to the research field.
    • 2020.06.07:
    • Ayano Yasukagawa, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, received Poster presentation award of Speech Committee Meeting of IEICE and ASJ.

      <Name of award and short explanation about the award>
      Poster presentation award of Speech Committee Meeting of IEICE and ASJ
      <About awarded research(activity)>
      Implementation of a high-accuracy method for automatic fluency scoring of spontaneous English utterances by Japanese learners,
      Ayano Yasukagawa, Shintaro Ando, Eisuke Konno, Zhenchao Lin, Yusuka Inoue, Daisuke Saito, Nobuaki Minematsu (UTokyo), Kazuya Saito (UCL)

      <Your impression & future plan>
      I’m very honored to receive poster presentation award from the SP committee. My work was on automatic fluency prediction for Japanese English utterances. In the master program, I’m a member of another lab., and I’ll study hard there, too.
    • 2020.05.28:
    • Kaoru Senda (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, M1) received Best Paper Award of The 82nd National Convention of IPSJ.
      http://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/taikaiyusyu.html
      <About awarded research>
      "Individual segmentation of 3D point cloud using heuristic model for growth measurement of fruit tree"
      3D point cloud sensed by drones is utilized to evaluate growth of plants in an orchard, but individual segmentation is challenging.
    • 2020.05.27:
    • Akihisa Yasuda(D3 in 2019), Research Associate Yoshiaki Narusue, and Professor Hiroyuki Morikawa received the best paper award of the Japan wind energy association.
      http://www.jwea.or.jp/menu2-3.html
      <About awarded research>
      A low-cost and highly-accurate wind turbine anomaly detection method based on the collected data by a Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
    • 2020.05.20:
    • Masaki Takeuchi (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, M2), Ahn Jaesol (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, B3), and Lee Kunhak (Department of Mechanical Engineering, B3) won the second place in the ImagineCup World Final.
      Imagine Cup aims to empower students to use their imagination and passion for technology to develop innovative and inclusive solutions that tackle key societal issues.
      https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/student-developer-blog/meet-the-2020-imagine-cup-world-champion-team-hollo-from-hong/ba-p/1400674
      <About awarded research>
      Syrinx, a hands-free ElectroLarynx that restores voice of people who have lost their voice due to throat cancer
    • 2020.04.07:
    • Associate Professor Masaharu Kobayashi (System Design Research Center (d.lab)/Institute of Industrial Science) received The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
      This award recognizes researchers who are making remarkable achievements of the novel and emerging researches under 40 years of age.
      <About awarded research>
      "Innovative transistor and memory technologies based on next-generation ferroelectric material"
    • 2020.03.09:
    • 佐藤周行研究室の齋藤雄太さん(当時修士2年)と佐藤周行准教授による研究が、ソフトウェアテスト技術振興協会(ASTER)の第13回善吾賞に選定されました。
      この賞は、ソフトウェアの品質向上に寄与する学術的な論文を顕彰するために、学術雑誌や学術シンポジウム等で発表された日本語論文を対象にASTER善吾賞選考委員会が毎年選出するものです。
      <受賞された研究>
      『確率密度関数を用いたソフトウェアテスティングのためのテストケース優先順位付け戦略』
    • 2020.03.06:
    • Hiroaki Masaki (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Emerging Design and Informatics Course / second-year master’s student) received Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2020.
      CHI 2020 is a top-tier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. At most 5% of submissions can receive an Honorable Mention Award.
      <About awarded research>
      “Exploring Nudge Designs to Help Adolescent SNS Users Avoid Privacy and Safety Threats”
      A nudge is a method to influence individual choices without taking away freedom of choice, well studied in behavioral economics. We conducted online surveys with adolescent SNS users to compare how 11 different nudge designs influence decisions in 9 scenarios featuring various privacy and safety threats on social media services (SNS).
    • 2020.03.05:
    • Soshi Shimomura (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, M2) won IEEE computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (Neurocomputing).
      This award honors an excellent paper presented by a researcher under 35 in IEICE Neurocomputing Technical Meeting in 2019.
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20200305ShimomuraYRA(NC)CISJ/
      <About awarded research>
      Research on visualizing a plastic landmine in the soil, which was difficult to detect with conventional methods
    • 2020.03.05:
    • Takehiro Ichimura (B4 in 2019) received IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award (Neurocomputing).
      This award recognizes an excellent paper presented by a researcher under 35 in IEICE Neurocomputing Technical Meeting in Academic Year 2018.
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20200305IchimuraYRA(NC)CISJ/
      <About awarded research>
      We presented the spatial distribution of effective information in a spin-wave reservoir computing in learning XOR task by using magnetic simulation. We also estimated ideal placing and sizing of output electrodes in this devise by investigating the output weights' distribution after learning.
    • 2020.03.04:
    • Associate Professor Masaharu Kobayashi (System Design Research Center (d.lab)/Institute of Industrial Science) received Marubun Research Encouragement Award for the research achievement of next-generation integrated devices based on ferroelectric-HfO2.
      This award recognizes researchers who are making remarkable achievements based on exchange research at research institutes such as universities and national & public research institutions.
    • 2020.03.03:
    • Siwook Choi (Department of Information and Communication Engineering) received The 65th IPSJ SIGUBI Workshop, Excellent paper award.
      <About awarded research>
      "Examining Feasibility of Eye Dryness Detection during Computer Use"
      In this paper, we designed a method to directly detect eye dryness during computer use through projecting a grid image from a computer display, and processing the reflected grid pattern on the user's eyes.
    • 2020.02.28:
    • Associate Professor Koji Yatani (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, School of Engineering) received IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research.
      This award was founded in 2018 by the IPSJ and the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) in order to honor early career researchers in the field of computing for their outstanding contributions through their international and collaborative research as well as high expectations of their continuing global research.
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/organization/aboutipsj/award/ACM-Award-E.html
      <About awarded research>
      Mobile Interactive Systems or Intellectual Productivity Support
    • 2020.02.18:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻 夏秋嶺講師が「Remote Sensing 2019 Outstanding Reviewer Award」を受賞しました。
      この賞は、論文誌Remote Sensingにおいて、2019年中に投稿された多数の論文に対して期限内に高い質をもって査読を行ったものへ授与されます。
      https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards
    • 2020.02.18:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻 野村政宏准教授が「第16回日本学術振興会賞」を受賞しました。
      受賞対象者は、人文学、社会科学及び自然科学の全分野において、45歳未満で論文等の研究業績により学術上特に優れた成果をあげている研究者で、24名が受賞し本学からは2名が受賞しました。日本学士院で挙行された授賞式には、秋篠宮皇嗣同妃両殿下が臨席されました。授賞対象となった研究課題は「フォノニックナノ構造を用いた熱流制御とその環境発電応用」です。
      https://www.jsps.go.jp/jsps-prize/kettei.html
    • 2020.01.15:
    • 熊田・藤井研の博士課程2年の江尻 開さんが2019年IEEE PES Japan Joint Chapter 学生優秀論文賞を受賞し、 2020年1月15日表彰式が執り行われました。
      小倉で2019年10月13日から16日にかけて開催された5th International Conference on Electric Power Equipment - Switching Technology (ICEPE-ST) で発表された"Particle-In-Cell Monte Carlo Collision Simulation of the Breakdown Initiating Process in Vacuum"が対象論文として採択されました。
    • 2019.12.11:
    • Song Jungmin (M2), Electric engineering department, won the 2019 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR) Excellent Paper Award (Second Price).
      Paper: J.Song, H.Kim, R.Natsuaki, A.Hirose,"Experimental analysis on spatial resolution and convergence of Poincare parameter versus window-size for ALOS-2 and Pi-SAR-L2 observations"
      https://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20191129APSAR2019Song/
    • 2019.12.08:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻博士課程3年 金 相源さんが、Siebel Scholarsを受賞しました。
      これは、世界有数のSiebel Scholarsプログラム参加大学大学院に在学する学生を対象とした奨学金プログラムで、各参加大学の最も優秀な学生へ奨学金を付与する事業です。(東京大学への奨学金は、Energy Scienceの分野の学生が対象です。)
      大学院在学中行ってきた研究分野(大規模再生可能エネルギー活用のための直流送電システムの適用)の研究成果及びその社会的な貢献度を認められ、受賞することになりました。
    • 2019.11.30:
    • 熊田・藤井研の学部4年生の寺田悠人さんが、2019年11月30日に東京都市大学で行われた2019年度放電学会若手セミナーで「酸化クロム皮膜を有する真空バルブ沿面の沿面放電シミュレーション」の論文を発表し、ポスター発表奨励賞を受賞しました。
    • 2019.11.30:
    • 熊田・藤井研の学部4年生の本間大成さんが、 2019年11月30日に東京都市大学で行われた2019年度放電学会年次大会で「レーザ誘起ブレイクダウン分光によるポリマーがいしの劣化診断」の論文を発表し、優秀論文発表賞 を受賞しました。
    • 2019.11.20:
    • <プレスリリース>
      SNSユーザの行動・つながりデータ可視化システムの共同研究開始のお知らせ
      東京大学大学院工学系研究科電気系工学専攻矢谷研究室(インタラクティブ・インテリジェント・システム・ラボ)と ALPHABOAT合同会社(東京都渋谷区、社長 西谷大蔵)は、共同にてSNSユーザの行動・つながりデータ可視化システムの研究を開始いたします。
      https://www.alpha-boat.com/archives/830
    • 2019.11.20:
    • Associate Professor Koji Yatani has received RIEC Award.
      RIEC Award is organized by Tohoku University RIEC, and given to a young researcher who has outstanding research contributions in the field of EE, information, and communication, and a strong potential to further contribute to such research communities.
      http://www.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/info/riec-award/r1/
    • 2019.11.20:
    • Hidenori Matsui (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies second-year master's student, IIS Lab.) received IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award for his research "Designing a Smart Ice Cube with Beverage Alcohol Concentration Sensing".
      This award is given annually to presenters of excellent papers appearing in the SIG technical reports and symposium proceedings.
    • 2019.09.05:
    • Mr. Kosuke Takiguchi, Dr. Le Duc Anh, and Prof. Masaaki Tanaka (Dept of EEIS, Graduate School of Engineering), in collaboration with Dr.Tomohiro Koyama, Prof. Daichi Chiba (Dept of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering), and have demonstrated that nonmagnetic (NM) / ferromagnetic (FM) bilayers consisting of a NM InAs quantum well (QW) conductive channel and an insulating FM (Ga,Fe)Sb layer exhibit giant proximity magnetoresistance (PMR) (~80% at 14 T). This PMR is two orders of magnitude larger than the MR observed in NM/FM bilayers reported to date, and its magnitude can be controlled by a gate voltage. These findings provide a pathway to achieve local access to Majorana fermions in InAs-based Josephson junctions by gate-controlled MPE, as well as represent a new concept of magnetic-gating spin transistors in which the NM channel current is strongly modulated by both electrical and magnetic means. This result was published in Nature Physics.

      Kosuke Takiguchi, Le Duc Anh, Takahiro Chiba, Tomohiro Koyama, Daichi Chiba, Masaaki Tanaka "Giant gate-controlled proximity magnetoresistance in semiconductor-based ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic bilayers" Nature Physics, published on August 26, 2019. DOI:10.1038/s41567-019-0621-6
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0621-6

      Press release
      https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foe/press/setnws_201908271542346541551828.html
    • 2019.09.05:
    • 瀧口耕介(電気系工学専攻博士1年)、レデゥックアイン助教、田中雅明教授らによるスピントロニクスに関する研究成果がプレスリリースされ、マスコミで報道されました。

      非磁性半導体/強磁性半導体ヘテロ接合における新しい電子伝導現象を発見 ~次世代のスピントロニクス・デバイスの実現に新たな道筋~ :電気系工学専攻 瀧口耕介(D1)、総合研究機構 レ デゥック アイン助教、物理工学専攻 小山知弘助教(研究当時)、物理工学専攻 千葉大地准教授(研究当時)、電気系工学専攻 田中雅明教授ら
      https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foe/press/setnws_201908271542346541551828.html

      日本経済新聞 2019.8.27
      東大、非磁性半導体/強磁性半導体ヘテロ接合における新しい電子伝導現象を発見
      https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLRSP517303_T20C19A8000000/

      日本の研究 2019.08.27
      非磁性半導体/強磁性半導体ヘテロ接合における新しい電子伝導現象を発見 ~次世代のスピントロニクス・デバイスの実現に新たな道筋~
      https://research-er.jp/articles/view/81786

      OPTRONICS ONLINE 2019.08.28
      東大ら,非磁性/強磁性半導体に新しい磁気抵抗効果を発見
      http://www.optronics-media.com/news/20190828/59402/

      EE Times Japan 2019.08.30
      磁気抵抗効果が従来の約800倍:東京大学、新たな電子伝導現象を発見
      https://eetimes.jp/ee/articles/1908/29/news029.html
    • 2019.08.22:
    • <プレスリリース>
      視聴時間を自在に設定できる野球ダイジェスト動画配信システムに関する共同研究開始のお知らせ
      東京大学大学院工学系研究科電気系工学専攻矢谷研究室(インタラクティブ・インテリジェント・システム・ラボ)及びパシフィックリーグマーケティング株式会社は共同で、視聴時間を自在に設定できる野球ダイジェスト動画配信システムの研究を開始いたしました。今回の研究により、ダイジェスト動画の長さをファン一人ひとりの好みに合わせて選択・設定できるようになることが期待されます。例えば、通勤電車の1駅分の区間である2分間で観たい、あるいは昼休みのうちの10分で観たい、などのニーズに応えられるようになると考えられます。
      http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/soe/press/setnws_201908210906190490997264.html
      https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000062.000019259.html
      https://insight.official-pacificleague.com/news/18077
    • 2019.08.01:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻の夏秋嶺講師が、"IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) Best Reviewers in 2018"を受賞しました。IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) は地球科学およびリモートセンシング分野におけるトップジャーナルの一つであり、本賞は2018年にTGRSに貢献した2400人を超える査読者のうち、特に優れた貢献を果たした者へ送られるものです。
      https://www.grss-ieee.org/
    • 2019.06.25:
    • 2019年6月20日、工学系研究科電気系工学専攻八井研究室の竹森達也君(当時 電気電子工学科4年)、岡田峻君(当時 修士課程2年)、佐藤匠君(修士課程2年)、齋地康太君(当時 電気電子工学科4年)らによる「局在する光によるシリコン光検出器の高効率化」についての研究成果がCommunications Physics誌(Nature Research)に掲載されました。

      論文:T. Yatsui, S. Okada, T. Takemori, T. Sato, K. Saichi, T. Ogamoto, S. Chiashi, S. Maruyama, M. Noda, K. Yabana, K. Iida, and K. Nobusada, "Enhanced photo-sensitivity in a Si photodetector using a near-field assisted excitation," Communications Physics, Vol. 2, 62 (2019)
      https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-019-0173-1

      UTokyo Focus:https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/ja/articles/z0508_00134.html
    • 2019.06.20:
    • On 14 June 2019, Soshi Shimomurao (Electric engineering department, second year of Master's degree (last year), A.Hirose Lab.) received the 2018 IEEE AES Japan Chapter Best Student Paper Award at the IEICE SANE Technical Meeting held in JAXA ISAS, Sagamihara.
      S.Shimomura, A.Hirose, "Adaptive processing of time domain information by complex-valued self-organizing map in GPR"
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20190614ShimomuraIEEE_AES/
    • 2019.05.09:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻 矢谷研究室 卒業生の嶋田紅緒さんと矢谷浩司准教授らが開発している「視覚が不自由な方向けの衣料品・服飾品ショッピング支援モバイルアプリ」に関する記事が、4月22日(月)付 東京新聞朝刊、また4月23日(火)付 中日新聞夕刊に掲載されました。
    • 2019.04.18:
    • On 25 March 2019, Takumi Hirano received the 2018 IEICE Excellent Student Achivement Award at the Commencement Ceremony in Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems. This award certifies the excellence of reseach achievement for master course students.
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20190325HiranoIEICE_ES_BSA/
    • 2019.04.18:
    • On 20 March 2019, Takumi Hirano received the 2018 IEICE EMT Best Student Presentation Award in the IEICE Annual General Conference held in Waseda University, Nishi-Waseda, for his presentation.
      T.Hirano, A.Hirose, "Wideband direct coupling reduction among tapered slot antennas by electromagnetic bandgap structures"
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20190320HiranoEMT/
    • 2019.03.26:
    • Dr. Le Duc Anh, Prof. Shinobu Ohya, and Prof. Masaaki Tanaka (Dept of EEIS, Graduate School of Engineering), in collaboration with Dr. Taketomo Nakamura and Prof. Shingo Katsumoto (ISSP), have successfully observed superconducting current with spin-triplet electron pairing in junctions consisting of an n-type ferromagnetic semiconductor (In,Fe)As and Nb contacts. This result will open up the possibility of new superconducting spintronics devices using the functions of magnetism, superconductivity, and semiconductors.

      Paper:Taketomo Nakamura, Le Duc Anh, Yoshiaki Hashimoto, Shinobu Ohya, Masaaki Tanaka, and Shingo Katsumoto, "Evidence for Spin-Triplet Electron Pairing in the Proximity-Induced Superconducting State of an Fe-Doped InAs Semiconductor", Physical Review Letters 122, 107001 (2019).
      https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.107001
    • 2019.03.08:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻 矢谷研究室の嶋田紅緒さん(電子情報工学科4年)と矢谷浩司准教授らによる「日本橋高島屋における実証実験」に関する記事が朝日新聞デジタルに掲載されました。IIS Labで開発している視覚が不自由な方向けの衣料品・服飾品ショッピング支援モバイルアプリの実証実験を、日本橋高島屋 S.C.本館婦人靴売場において執り行いました。
      朝日新聞DIGITAL
    • 2019.03.08:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻 矢谷研究室の嶋田紅緒さん(電子情報工学科4年)が、「視覚が不自由なユーザのファッション活動に関する定性的調査」に関する研究で第61回UBI研究発表会優秀論文賞を受賞しました。
    • 2019.02.13:
    • 矢谷研究室から2件の実証実験のプレスリリースのお知らせです。
      <プレスリリース1>
      掲載情報:コンビニでの衝動買いに関する実証実験のプレスリリース
      SBクリエイティブ、ローソンと共同で、消費者の衝動買いにつながるしぐさを検出するためのデータを集める実店舗調査を行うことをプレスリリースしました。
      日刊工業新聞Web版
      ニュースイッチ
      <プレスリリース2>
      掲載情報:日本橋高島屋における実証実験のプレスリリース
      IIS Labで開発している視覚が不自由な方向けの衣料品・服飾品ショッピング支援モバイルアプリの実証実験を日本橋高島屋 S.C.本館婦人靴売場において執り行いました。
      日刊工業新聞Web版
      プレスリリース本文
    • 2019.02.13:
    • 矢谷研究室は、経済産業省主導のRFID活用実証実験において、家庭内におけるRFIDを利用した未来の生活のコンセプト立案、及びコンセプトビデオ作成に貢献しました。東京ガス横浜ショールームの「くらしのライブラリー キッチンライブラリーコーナー」における展示の一部として、貸し出されるタブレット端末より御覧いただける予定です。
      http://www.meti.go.jp/press/2018/02/20190208003/20190208003.html
    • 2019.02.01:
    • ナノ物理・デバイス分野 八井崇 准教授が「第2回光工学業績賞(高野榮一賞)」を受賞しました。
      受賞テーマ名:光を用いた革新的非接触サブナノ平滑化技術の開発
      https://www.jsap.or.jp/takano-award/recipients/recipients2
    • 2018.12.18:
    • 2018年12月7~8日に、マホロバ・マインズ三浦及び関東学院大学 横浜金沢八景キャンパスにて行われた 平成30年度放電学会若手セミナー・年次大会において、日高・熊田研のM1の中村信さんとB4の小野田貴亮さんが年次大会優秀論文発表賞を、B4の長谷川優貴さんが若手セミナー優秀ポスター賞を受賞しました。

      <受賞した発表>
      1. 中村信, 佐藤正寛, 熊田亜紀子, 日高邦彦, 早瀬悠二, 高野翔, 山城啓輔, 高野哲美:パワーモジュール封止用絶縁ゲル中の繰り返しインパルス電圧下におけるキャビティー進展現象, 平成30年度放電学会年次大会, 1-8 (2018/12/8)
      2.小野田貴亮, 熊田亜紀子, 日高邦彦, 梅本貴広, 中村隆央, 野嶋健一, 柄沢一成:運転温度下におけるインバータ駆動モータ固定子巻線端部の部分放電計測, 平成30年度放電学会年次大会, 2-4 (2018/12/8)
      3. 長谷川優貴, 江尻開, 熊田亜紀子,日高邦彦, 道念大樹, 小倉健太郎:酸化クロムを散布した真空バルブ内壁における沿面放電のParticle-In-Cell Monte-Carlo-Collision シミュレーション, 平成30年度放電学会若手セミナー, 2-3 (2018/12/7)
    • 2018.11.15:
    • 森川研究室、株式会社NTTドコモ、東北電力株式会社は、LoRaを活用した送電設備の監視に関する実証実験を開始すると発表しました。

      <プレスリリース>
      『LoRa無線通信技術』を活用した送電設備の監視に係る実証試験を実施
      ~山間部における作業員の業務効率化をめざす~
      https://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/shared/press/data/setnws_201811151527311054724923_712134.pdf
    • 2018.11.12:
    • 2018年9月23日-28日にドイツで開催された、真空放電および絶縁に関する国際会議ISDEIV 2018におきまして、日高・熊田研究室のD1の江尻 開さんが筆頭著者の下記の論文が、前回のISDEIV以降に投稿された中で最も優れた論文に授与されるBest Paper Award-Japan Prizeを受賞しました。

      論文:H. Ejiri, K. Abe, Y. Kikuchi, A. Kumada, K. Hidaka, T.Donen, and T. Tsukima:”Motion and Production of Microparticles in Vacuum Interrupter, ” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp.3374-3380, Dec, 2017
    • 2018.11.08:
    • 森川研究室 修士2年 藤城真祥君、学部4年 小渕大輔君、博士2年 近藤亮磨君、成末義哲助教らがAsia-Pacific Microwave Conference 2018において開催された Student and Young Engineer Design Competitions, Track C (Wireless Power Transfer); WPT Mini 4WD 400-cm Drag Race World Championship 2018で優勝しました。
    • 2018.11.04:
    • 森川研究室 修士2年 藤城真祥君の研究発表「Resonator Design Support by Deriving Suboptimal Current Distribution for Magnetically Coupled Wireless Power Transfer」が、Asian Wireless Power Workshop 2018においてStudent Awardを受賞しました。
      http://www.ieice.org/~cs/wpt/award/award_2018.html
    • 2018.10.03:
    • ナノ物理・デバイス分野 八井崇 准教授、山口真生君(発表当時 八井研究室博士課程3年)らによる「非一様光場によるサブナノ平滑化」に関する研究紹介記事が日経 xTECH(クロステック)に掲載されました。

      八井崇、山口真生、信定克幸、「平面基板や立体構造の「サブナノ平滑化」 近接場光エッチングで実現」、日経 xTECH 応用物理学会から
      https://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/nxt/column/18/00051/00008/
    • 2018.08.03:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻(修士課程2年)の下村颯志(指導教員:廣瀬明)さんが、2018年8月1-4日に富山国際会議場およびANAクラウンプラザ富山で開催された第40回電磁界理論の進歩国際会議にて3日(金)、Young Scientist Award および Best Student Paper Award(第3位)を受賞しました。

      論文:下村颯志、廣瀬明、「Singular-point Generating Mechanisms Based on the Correlations among the Parameters in Coherency Matrix and Those in the Optimized Scattering-mechanism Vector in PolInSAR」
      偏波干渉合成開口レーダにおいて、位相歪みと偏波状態を表す各パラメータ間の関係を調べることにより位相特異点の生成機序を解析した。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20180803PIERS_BSPA_YSA_Shimomura/
    • 2018.08.03:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻(修士課程1年)の大塚優太(指導教員:廣瀬明)さんが、2018年8月1-4日に富山国際会議場およびANAクラウンプラザ富山で開催された第40回電磁界理論の進歩国際会議にて3日(金)、Best Student Paper Award(第1位)を受賞しました。

      論文:大塚優太、島田智大、夏秋嶺、廣瀬明、「Singular-point Generating Mechanisms Based on the Correlations among the Parameters in Coherency Matrix and Those in the Optimized Scattering-mechanism Vector in PolInSAR」
      偏波干渉合成開口レーダにおいて、位相歪みと偏波状態を表す各パラメータ間の関係を調べることにより位相特異点の生成機序を解析した。

      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20180803PIERS_BSPA_Otsuka/
    • 2018.08.02:
    • 2018年8月2日、矢谷研究室所属の学際情報学府先端表現情報学コース修士1年の松井秀憲さんの研究成果が、テレビ東京 ワールドビジネスサテライトの「トレンドたまご」のコーナーにて紹介されました。
      放送内容:「飲料のアルコール度数が計測できる装置:Al-light(オールライト)」
      http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/mv/wbs/trend_tamago/post_160082/
    • 2018.06.07:
    • Dr. Le Duc Anh, Prof. Pham Nam Hai, and Prof. Masaaki Tanaka have successfully fabricated a spin Esaki diode composed of an n-type ferromagnetic semiconductor (FMS) indium iron arsenide (In,Fe)As -- a hybrid material made by doping iron (Fe) into indium arsenide (InAs), a III-V semiconductor well-known for high-speed device applications -- and p-type indium arsenide. Their "UTokyo Research" Article was published online on June 4, 2018.

      "Scientists create new functionality in a spin Esaki diode - Magnetoconductance controlled by spin-dependent band engineering"
      https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/utokyo-research/research-news/scientists-create-new-functionality-in-a-spin-esaki-diode.html
    • 2018.05.18:
    • 矢谷研究室 学際情報学府先端表現情報学コース(M1)の松井 秀憲さんが、「第58回ユビキタスコンピューティングシステム研究発表会」において、優秀論文賞を受賞されました。
      受賞研究:松井秀憲、橋爪崇弘、矢谷浩司「飲料のアルコール濃度計測を行うスマートアイスキューブの試作と評価」
    • 2018.04.19:
    • Associate Professor Masaki Kobayashi has been awarded Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan for his study on "Electronic structure analysis on ferromagnetic semiconductors using synchrotron radiation spectroscopy".
    • 2018.04.09:
    • 2018年3月22日、電気系工学専攻 寺尾直樹さん(M2, 当時)が、電子情報通信学会学術奨励賞を受賞されました。
      受賞した研究:寺尾直樹、名倉徹、石田雅裕、池野理門、日下崇、飯塚哲也、浅田邦博、「LSIテストに向けた電源インピーダンス模擬」 電子情報通信学会総合大会, A-1-3, 2017年
    • 2018.04.04:
    • 電気系工学専攻の大山晃平さん(修士課程、指導教員:廣瀬明)が、電子情報通信学会ニューロコンピューティング研究会(NC研究会)において、2017年度 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award を受賞しました。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20180313YRA(NC)Oyama/
    • 2018.04.04:
    • 電気系工学専攻のキム ヒョンスさん(博士課程、指導教員:廣瀬明)が、電子情報通信学会の第21回のエレクトロニクスソサエティ大会で、電磁界理論およびマイクロ波分野の優秀論文に選ばれ、学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20180320iciceYRAKim/
    • 2018.04.04:
    • 電気系工学専攻の廣瀬明教授が、2017年度KDDI財団賞を受賞しました。受賞の対象となったのは「干渉合成開口レーダの位相特異点発生の機序」の研究です。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20180323KDDIPrize/
    • 2018.03.23:
    • 矢谷研究室 修士2年の下尾波輝君の研究発表「エレキギター演奏におけるミスの自動検出」が、情報処理学会第80回全国大会において学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/taikaigakusei.html
    • 2018.03.23:
    • 矢谷研究室 修士1年の柴藤大介君の研究発表「GitHubのプルリクエストを用いたプログラミング課題自動生成システムの実現可能性に関する検討」が、情報処理学会第80回全国大会において学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/taikaigakusei.html
    • 2018.03.23:
    • 矢谷研究室 電子情報工学科4年の畑田裕二君の研究発表「ソーシャルメディア上の行動データから流出する個人情報の定量的分析」が、情報処理学会第80回全国大会において学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/taikaigakusei.html
    • 2018.03.23:
    • 矢谷研究室 電子情報工学科4年の松井秀憲君の研究発表「氷型スマートデバイス向け光学的アルコール濃度推定手法の調査」が、情報処理学会第80回全国大会において学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      https://www.ipsj.or.jp/award/taikaigakusei.html
    • 2018.03.12:
    • 竹中充 准教授(ナノ物理デバイスラボ )らによる「シリコン光スイッチ」に関する記事が日本経済新聞(2018年3月12日付け)に掲載されました。
      AIの学習高速化へ 東大、光回路の制御素子
      WEB版は下記からご覧になれます。
      https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO27982600R10C18A3000000/
    • 2018.02.26:
    • 東京大学社会連携講座(IBM)「省エネルギー情報処理」 中根了昌 特任准教授、田中剛平 特任准教授、廣瀬明教授による「スピン波を利用した情報処理チップデバイスの提案と動作原理の実証」についての研究成果がプレスリリースされました。

      <プレスリリース> 2018.2.23
      スピン波を利用した情報処理チップデバイスの提案と動作原理の実証 -IoT社会を推し進める高性能端末機器の実現へ- 国際工学教育推進機構社会連携講座
      /電気系工学専攻 中根了昌 特任准教授、田中剛平 特任准教授、廣瀬明 教授
      プレスリリース本文:
      http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/shared/press/data/setnws_201802231415194061626317_902552.pdf
      社会連携講座: http://eeip.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
    • 2018.02.25:
    • Dr. Le Duc Anh (Research Associate, Tanaka-Ohya Lab) received the Best Presentation Award for his oral presentation entitled "Fe based narrow-gap ferromagnetic semiconductors: New materials for high-performance spintronic devices" (Le Duc Anh, Nguyen Thanh Tu, Pham Nam Hai, and Masaaki Tanaka), at the 9th Research Exchange Meeting of Cryogenic Research Center, The University of Tokyo, on February 21st, 2018, at Itoh International Center, The University of Tokyo. He was awarded in the 50th Founding Anniversary Ceremony and Lectures of Cryogenic Research Center, The University of Tokyo.
      http://www.crc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/kenkyukoryu/index.html
    • 2018.01.24:
    • 峯松研究室修士2年の大杉康仁君が、情報処理学会音楽シンポジウム2017にて、学生奨励賞を受賞しました。
      受賞論文のタイトルは「顔から声への統計的対応付けに関する技術的諸検討」です。
      http://www.sigmus.jp/?page_id=3648
    • 2018.01.24:
    • 峯松研究室修士2年の増田嵩志君が、日本音響学会2017年秋季研究発表会にて、学生優秀発表賞を受賞しました。
      受賞論文のタイトルは「耐雑音性の向上を目的とした End-to-end 音声認識における Virtual Adversarial Training の適用」です。
      http://www.asj.gr.jp/recommending/index.html
    • 2018.01.24:
    • 峯松研究室修士1年の張昊宇君が、電子情報通信学会音声研究会にて、学生ポスター賞を受賞しました。
      受賞論文のタイトルは「音声変形技術を用いた外国語聴解教材の声質操作とそれを用いた聴解能力の頑健化に関する実験的検討」です。
      http://www.ieice.org/~sp/jpn/special/sp-poster-prize.html
    • 2017.12.14:
    • The group of Prof. Masaaki Tanaka (Univ of Tokyo) and Prof. Pham Nam Hai (Tokyo Institute of Technology) published their work on nanoscale Si-based spin-valve devices in Journal of Applied Physics, and this paper has been chosen as an Editor's Pick and Featured Article.

      Duong Dinh Hiep, Masaaki Tanaka, and Pham Nam Hai
      "Inverse spin-valve effect in nanoscale Si-based spin-valve devices"
      J. Appl. Phys. 122, pp.223904/1-7 (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4994881
      http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jap/122/22/10.1063/1.4994881

      A Scilight article (sharp quick summaries illustrating the latest physics research) was published online on 12 December 2017.
      "Ballistic transport in spin-valve Si channel demonstrates feasibility of nanoscale spin-MOSFETs,"
      Ballistic electron motion in nanoscale Si channels of a lateral spin-valve device, in addition to improved conductivity matching, advances spintronics technology towards spin-MOSFETS.
      http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/sci/2017/25/10.1063/1.5018722
      DOI: 10.1063/1.5018722
    • 2017.11.30:
    • 電気系工学専攻矢谷研究室の下尾波輝さん(修士課程2年)の第117回情報処理学会音楽情報科学研究会における研究発表「エレキギター演奏自動評価のための音響的特微量の調査」が学生奨励賞を受賞致しました。
      http://www.sigmus.jp/?page_id=3550
    • 2017.11.22:
    • 電気系工学専攻の有馬悠也さん(博士課程、指導教員:廣瀬明)が、第24回(2017年)神経情報処理国際会議(ICONIP)優秀学生論文賞ファイナリストに選出されました。 ニューラルネットワークの3大国際会議の1つであるICONIPにおいて、数ある学生論文の中から最優秀賞選考の最終候補8名のうちに選出されました。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20171117ICONIPBestStudentPaperAward/
    • 2017.11.08:
    • 2017年11月に行われた IEEE International Test Conference において、工学系研究科電気系工学専攻の、名倉徹 准教授、寺尾直樹さん(修士2年)、飯塚哲也 准教授、浅田邦博 教授らによるLSI テスト手法に関する発表が Best Paper Award を受賞しました。

      Toru Nakura, Naoki Terao, Masahiro Ishida, Rimon Ikeno, Takashi Kusaka, Tetsuya Iizuka, Kunihiro Asada, "Power Supply Impedance Emulation to Eliminate Overkills and Underkills due to the Impedance Difference between ATE and Customer Board"
      http://www.itctestweek.org/papers/best-paper-awards/

      また、名倉徹 准教授、浅田邦博 教授らが JETTA/TTTC 論文誌において 2016 Best Paper Award を受賞しました。
      Masahiro Ishida, Toru Nakura, Takashi Kusaka, Satoshi Komatsu, Kunihiro Asada, "Dynamic Power Integrity Control of ATE for Eliminating Overkills and Underkills in Device Testing", Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Application (JETTA), Vol.32, Issue 3, pp.257-271, June 2016.
      https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10836-017-5689-2
    • 2017.10.13:
    • 久保田研究室博士課程3年(発表当時)の大津恭平君がベストプレゼンテーション表彰(日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会)を受賞しました。
      https://www.jsme.or.jp/rmd/Japanese/Awards/
    • 2017.04.28:
    • 峯松研究室修士2年(当時)の外山翔平の音響学会春季研究発表会における研究発表「自然発話音声認識のためのRNN言語モデルにおける音響情報の活用」が学生優秀発表賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.asj.gr.jp/recommending/index.html#gakusei
    • 2017.04.13:
    • 航空宇宙工学専攻の船瀬龍准教授らのPROCYONプロジェクトにて、世界初の超小型深宇宙探査機を実現させた成果が、 「平成29年度科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰 科学技術賞(研究部門)」を受賞することになりました。この賞は、本専攻の冨木淳史助教が共同で受賞しています。
      http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/29/04/1384228.htm
    • 2017.03.13:
    • 廣瀬研究室学部4年の市川和秀君が,IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award を受賞しました。
      受賞論文のタイトルは "干渉型合成開口レーダによる高度地図作成のための複素ニューラルネットワークを用いた位相特異点構成画素群の補正" です。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20170313YRA(NC)Ichikawa/
    • 2017.03.13:
    • 廣瀬研究室学部4年の彦坂真央樹君が,IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award を受賞しました。
      受賞論文のタイトルは "マルチパス環境で偏波状態を推定し予測する四元数ニューラルネットワーク" です。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20170313YRA(NC)Hikosaka/
    • 2017.03.12:
    • 矢谷研究室学部4年の有薗拓也君が,第53回情報処理学会UBI研究会にて,学生奨励賞を受賞しました。 受賞論文のタイトルは "重心移動が可能なダンベル型デバイスの製作とその知覚に関する実験" です。
    • 2017.03.12:
    • 矢谷研究室修士1年の橋爪崇弘君が,第53回情報処理学会UBI研究会にて,優秀論文賞を受賞しました。 受賞論文のタイトルは "指尖容積脈波を同時に取得する指紋認証システムの試作と評価" です。
    • 2017.03.12:
    • 矢谷研究室修士2年の有賀竣哉君が,第114回報処理学会音楽情報科学研究会にて,学生奨励賞を受賞しました。 受賞論文のタイトルは "Strummer:インタラクティブなギターコード練習システム" です。
    • 2016.12.29:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ・田中大矢研究室のレデゥックアイン助教、ファムナムハイ客員准教授、田中雅明教授による「スピン状態によって大きなエネルギー差が自発的に生ずるエネルギー帯構造を観測」した研究成果が、Nature Communicationsに掲載されました。

      Le Duc Anh, Pham Nam Hai and Masaaki Tanaka "Observation of spontaneous spin-splitting in the band structure of an n-type zinc-blende ferromagnetic semiconductor" Nature Communications 7, 13810 (2016).
      http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13810
      https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13810
    • 2016.12.08:
    • 熊田准教授、山崎准教授が工学部からBest Teaching Awardを受賞しました。
    • 2016.11.16:
    • 日高・熊田研究室博士後期課程3年の佐藤正寛さんが、2017 Siebel Scholars in Energy Science を受賞しました。The Siebel Scholars Program は、Siebel Scholars Foundationにより、世界有数の本プログラム参加大学大学院に在学する学生を対象とし、各参加大学の最も優秀な博士課程の学生へ奨学金を付与する事業です。
      http://www.siebelscholars.com/news/siebel-scholars-foundation-announces-2017-siebel-scholars
    • 2016.09.21:
    • 橋本研究室の眞下泰輝君(修士課程2年)が「月惑星着陸航法におけるぶれ画像を用いた速度推定法に関する検討」で、宇宙科学技術連合講演会の学生セッションにおいて優秀発表賞を受賞しました。
    • 2016.09.13:
    • 染谷研究室の松久直司君(博士課程3年)が国際学会2016ICFPEでStudent Poster Awardを受賞しました。
      Naoji Matsuhisa “High Current Density, Flexible Organic Diodes for Flexible Sensor Matrices”
      http://www.2016icfpe.org/
    • 2016.08.16:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ・田中・大矢研究室のレデゥックアイン博士(助教)と若林勇希君(電気系工学専攻博士課程3年)の研究成果が、第9回「スピン関連現象の物理と応用」国際会議(神戸国際会議場、2016年8月8日-11日)において、ベストポスター賞に選ばれました。

      Le Duc Anh, Pham Nam Hai, and Masaaki Tanaka
      “Spontaneous spin-split band structure of n-type ferromagnetic semiconductor (In,Fe)As observed by tunneling spectroscopy”
      Best Poster Award, 9th International Conference on Physics and Applications of Spin-Related Phenomena in Solids (PASPS9), Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, August 8-11, 2016.

      Yuki K. Wakabayashi, Ryota Akiyama, Yukiharu Takeda, Masafumi Horio, Goro Shibata, Shoya Sakamoto, Yoshisuke Ban,1 Yuji Saitoh, Hiroshi Yamagami, Atsushi Fujimori, Masaaki Tanaka, and Shinobu Ohya
      “Origin of the large positive magnetoresistance in Ge1-xMnx granular films”
      Best Poster Award, 9th International Conference on Physics and Applications of Spin-Related Phenomena in Solids (PASPS9), Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, August 8-11, 2016.
    • 2016.08.02:
    • 工学系研究科電気系工学専攻の鈴木祐太特別研究員、小関泰之准教授、東京大学大学院理学系研究科の合田圭介教授らの生きた細胞の内部に存在する生体分子を光学的に検出する、高速誘導ラマン散乱(SRS)顕微鏡に関する研究成果がプレスリリースされ、ネイチャー・パブリッシング・グループ(NPG)の英国科学雑誌「Nature Microbiology」のオンライン版で公開されます。

      <プレスリリース>
      http://www.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/foe/press/setnws_20160802105732051679502063.html

      <Nature Microbiology>
      http://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol2016124
    • 2016.06.30:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ・田中・大矢研究室の「半導体の基礎物理学で新たな発見」に関する研究成果が、Nature Communications に掲載されました。

      Iriya Muneta, Shinobu Ohya, Hiroshi Terada and Masaaki Tanaka, "Sudden restoration of the band ordering associated with the ferromagnetic phase transition in a semiconductor" Nature Communications 7, 12013 (2016). Doi: 10.1038/ncomms12013
      http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160628/ncomms12013/full/ncomms12013.html
    • 2016.06.20:
    • 佐藤正寛君(日髙・熊田研 D3)・熊田亜紀子准教授・日髙邦彦教授が「量子化学計算を用いた絶縁材料中の電荷輸送特性の定量評価に向けた一検討」に関して、電気学会の「電気学術振興賞論文賞」を受賞しました。
      http://www.iee.jp/?p=13922
    • 2016.06.15:
    • 峯松研究室修士2年の外山翔平君が,情報処理学会・音声言語情報処理研究会にて,学生奨励賞を受賞しました。受賞論文のタイトルは "話し言葉音声認識における非言語情報を考慮したRNN言語モデル" です。
    • 2016.06.15:
    • 峯松研究室博士2年の Zhao YI さんが,日本音響学会・学生優秀発表賞を受賞しました。受賞論文のタイトルは "Integration of Multi-Speaker Training and Speaker Adaptation for DBLSTM-RNN-based Text-To-Speech Synthesis" です。
      http://www.asj.gr.jp/recommending/index.html
    • 2016.05.20:
    • 浅田・名倉・飯塚研究室の峠仁人君(当時修士2年)の電子情報通信学会集積回路研究会での講演が,2015年度研究会優秀若手講演賞を受賞しました。発表論文のタイトルは「フラクショナル位相選択法によりジッタ特性を改善した高速起動完全デジタルCDR回路の設計」です。
      http://www.ieice.org/~icd/award/2015.html
    • 2016.05.13:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ・田中研究室の高温強磁性半導体に関する研究成果が、Applied Physcs Letters誌(Issue of May 9, 2016)に掲載され、FEATURED ARTICLEに選ばれました。また同時に、AIP Publishingのハイライト記事AIP Publishing in the Newsに掲載されました。

      <FEATURED ARTICLE>
      Nguyen Thanh Tu, Pham Nam Hai, Le Duc Anh, and Masaaki Tanaka
      "High-temperature ferromagnetism in heavily Fe-doped ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Fe)Sb"
      Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, pp.192401/1-4 (2016).
      http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/108/19/10.1063/1.4948692

      <AIP Publishing in the News>
      "Best of Both Worlds: Ferromagnetism + Semiconductor = Spintronics: New Opportunities for Improving Electronics"
      https://www.aip.org/publishing/journal-highlights/best-both-worlds
    • 2016.05.13:
    • 日本学術会議「マスタープラン2014」重点大型計画および文部科学省「学術研究の大型プロジェクト-ロードマップ2014」に採択された「スピントロニクス学術研究基盤と連携ネットワーク拠点」形成事業が2016年4月より始まり、「スピントロニクス学術連携研究教育センター」が設立されました。
    • 2016.05.13:
    • 東京大学工学系研究科に「スピントロニクス学術連携研究教育センター」が設立され、田中雅明 教授(電気系工学専攻、電気電子工学科)がセンター長に就任しました(2016年4月1日)。
    • 2015.12.04:
    • 日高・熊田研究室の博士課程2年の佐藤正寛君が2015 DEIS Graduate fellowshipを受賞しました。
      この賞は、IEEEの誘電絶縁部門(Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Society)における学生の研究計画書の中で優れたものに授与されます。
    • 2015.10.17:
    • 電気系工学専攻の鳴海紘也さんが、「導電性インクペンを用いた手描きでの回路作成」についての研究で、ACM UbiComp 2015においてHonorable Mention Awardを受賞しました。
    • 2015.10.15:
    • 田畑研究室の足立真輝君が「ゆらぎエレクトロニクス」に関する研究で、 国際学会International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) においてSSDM Young Researcher Awardを受賞しました。
      http://www.ssdm.jp/award.html
    • 2015.09.15:
    • 田中・大矢研究室(ナノ物理・デバイスラボ)博士課程の石井友章君が川添忠先生と大津元一先生と共同で行った2015年春季応用物理学会講演会での発表が、応用物理学会講演奨励賞 を受賞し、2015年秋季応用物理学会において表彰されました。
      http://www.jsap.or.jp/activities/award/lecture/dai38kai.html
    • 2015.09.15:
    • 田中・大矢研究室(ナノ物理・デバイスラボ)博士課程の若林勇希君が物理学専攻藤森研究室と大型放射光施設(SPring-8) と共同で行った2015年春季応用物理学会講演会での発表が、スピントロニクス英語講演奨励賞を受賞し、2015年秋季応用物理学会において表彰されました。
      http://annex.jsap.or.jp/spintro/
    • 2015.08.26:
    • ナノ物理デバイスラボ田中研究室博士課程3年のレデゥックアイン君が、第29回独創性を拓く先端技術大賞(主催:文部科学省 経済産業省 フジテレビジョン 産経新聞社 ニッポン放送)において優秀賞(ニッポン放送賞)を受賞しました。研究業績は「N型強磁性半導体(In, Fe)Asの量子物性と波動関数による磁性制御」で、2015年7月8日に東京・元赤坂 明治記念館にて高円宮妃殿下ご臨席のもと授賞式が行われました。
      http://www.fbi-award.jp/sentan/jusyou/index.html
    • 2015.08.26:
    • 田中雅明教授、大矢忍准教授、ファムナムハイ(元田中研研究員、現在東京工業大学准教授)によるApplied Physics Reviews誌掲載の招待論文が、2014年同誌のmost-accessed articlesにランクインしました(2015年5月にAmericanInstitute of Physics (AIP)よりアナウンス)。
      http://aip-info.org/1XPS-3DQI2-C9LMZ0-1LAYNY-0/c.aspx
    • 2015.08.21:
    • 峯松研究室博士3年生の柏木陽佑君が「話者コードに基づく話者正規化学習を利用したニューラルネット音響モデルの適応」で音声研究会研究奨励賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.ieice.org/iss/sp/jpn/special/sp-prize.html
    • 2015.08.19:
    • 日高邦彦教授が、電気を安全に利用するために必須となる各種センサの開発、また、電気保安を支える国際電気規格、国内電気規格、日本電気設備技術 基準の制定、改訂に関して、学識者としての多くの貢献で、第51回電気保安功労者経済産業大臣表彰(個人の部)を受賞されました。
      http://www.meti.go.jp/press/2015/07/20150731001/20150731001.html
    • 2015.06.05:
    • 日高邦彦教授が高電圧工学と電力輸送システムに関する技術の発展と電気学会学会活動への貢献で、電気学会の「功績賞」を受賞されました。
      http://www.iee.jp/?p=12117
    • 2015.06.05:
    • 石井勝名誉教授が「東京スカイツリーにおける雷撃現象観測装置の開発と超高構造物への雷撃特性の解明 」に関して、電気学会の「電気学術振興賞進歩賞」を受賞されました。
      http://www.iee.jp/?p=12117
    • 2015.06.03:
    • 稲田優貴(元)特任助教・日高邦彦教授・熊田亜紀子准教授の三名が「各種放電プラズマに適用可能なシャックハルトマン型電子密度分布可視化装置の開発」に関しまして、電気学会の「電気学術振興賞進歩賞」を受賞されました。
      http://www.iee.jp/?p=12117
    • 2015.05.20:
    • 峯松研究室の藤垣健太郎君(当時修士2年)が,音響学会春季研究発表会にて,学生優秀発表賞を受賞しました。発表論文のタイトルは「MFCC-basedGMMによる事後確率を用いたNMFとその雑音環境下音声認識への応用」です。
      http://www.asj.gr.jp/recommending/index.html
    • 2015.05.20:
    • 峯松信明教授が、APSIPA (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association) において、Distinguished Lecturer (2015-2016) として選出されました。
    • 2015.04.29:
    • 高木信一先生と大矢忍先生が平成27年度 科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰を受賞されました。
      http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/27/04/1356509.htm

      <科学技術賞 研究部門>
      ・髙木 信一 教授(電気系工学専攻、電気電子工学科)
      ・CMOS中のキャリア輸送特性の理解と高性能化に関する研究

      <若手科学者賞>
      ・大矢 忍 准教授(電気系工学専攻、電気電子工学科、総合研究機構)
      ・スピン自由度を生かした半導体バンドエンジニアリングの研究
    • 2014.10.09:
    • 廣瀬明教授が、「複素振幅を扱うニューラルネットワーク理論の構築とレーダ応用への先駆的貢献」に関して、電子情報通信学会エレクトロニクスソサイエティ賞を受賞いたしました。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20140924ElesoAward/
    • 2014.10.09:
    • 電気系工学専攻技術専門員の高橋登さんが第29回東京大学工学部・工学系研究科技術発表会研究科長賞を受賞いたしました。
      ・事由:技術報告「クラウド運用におけるネットワークとバックアップの重要性」が最も優れた技術発表であり、技術の発展に大いに貢献するものと認められたため。
    • 2014.10.09:
    • 日高・熊田研究室の稲田優貴助教が、第26回真空放電および絶縁に関する国際シンポジウム (26th International Symposium on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV-2014)) において若手研究者を対象として優秀賞を受賞いたしました。また、日高・熊田研究室 博士課程3年(9月末日 卒業)の徐碩 (Xu Shuo)さんが同賞の次点と認定されました。
      受賞の様子
    • 2014.07.18:
    • 鶴岡研究室修士1年の中須賀謙吾さんが、ACM国際大学対抗プログラミングコンテスト 世界大会において銀メダル(世界7位)を獲得しました。
      受賞式の様子
    • 2014.06.30:
    • 廣瀬明教授が、「新たなニューラルネットワーク理論の構築とリモートセンシングへの応用」に関する研究においてIEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Distinguished Lecturer(IEEE ディスティングイッシュト・レクチャラー賞)を受賞いたしました。
      http://www.eis.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/20140101IEEE_GRSS_DLP/
    • 2014.06.18:
    • 日高・熊田研の修士2年の中村隆央さんが、国際会議20th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE 2014) においてBest Paper Award(優秀論文賞)を受賞しました。
    • 2014.05.30:
    • 橋本研の修士1年の西山万里さんが、卒業論文(伊庭研)の研究内容に関する発表を行い、国際会議2014 The 6th International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC 2014) においてBest presentation award(最優秀論文発表賞)を受賞しました。
    • 2014.05.03:
    • 峯松研究室修士2年の笠原駿君が,IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICIST) にて,Best Paper Awardを受賞しました。発表論文は,"Structure-based Prediction of English Pronunciation Distances and Its Analytical Investigation"です。
    • 2014.03.20:
    • 田中・大矢研究室(電気系工学専攻)と東大物性研、SPring-8、スイスPSI、広 島大学などとの共同研究による研究成果「希薄磁性半導体が磁石の性質を示す機 構を解明」が、東京大学ほか各機関のプレスリリースに掲載されました。
      http://www.issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp/issp_wms/DATA/OPTION/release20140226.pdf

      論文は、米国物理学会論文誌 Physcal Review Letters(2014年3月12日電子版)に掲載されました。
      "Electronic Excitations of Magnetic Impurity State in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As" Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 107203/1-4 (2014).
      ・DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.107203
    • 2014.03.18:
    • 保立研究室修士2年の松岡大さんが、電子情報通信学会光エレクトロニクス研究会(OPE)2013年度学生優秀研究賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.ieice.or.jp/es/ope/
    • 2014.03.05:
    • 廣瀬明研究室の博士3年の夏秋嶺さんが、第21回リモートセンシングフォーラムにおいて若手研究者賞を受賞いたしました。
      発表論文「Improvement of SAR interferogram accuracy in mountainous regions using local co-registration method」
    • 2014.02.04:
    • 保立和夫教授が「光ファイバーセンシングに関する先駆的・独創的研究」により、 応用物理学会から光・量子エレクトロニクス業績賞(宅間宏賞)を受賞しました。
    • 2014.01.13:
    • 峯松研究室博士1年の柏木陽佑さんが、日本音響学会優秀学生賞を受賞しました。
      http://www.asj.gr.jp/recommending/index.html#gakusei
      発表論文は「Deep Learningに基づくクリーン音声状態識別による雑音環境下音声認識」です。
    • 2014.01.02:
    • 第20回鉄道技術シンポジウムにおいて、古関研の渡邉翔一郎さん(修士2年)が優秀発表賞を受賞いたしました。
    • 2014.01.02:
    • 国際会議 2013 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS 2013) において、古関研の渡辺隆嗣さん(修士2年)がOutstanding Paper Award (優秀論文賞、ICEMS2013に採録された論文の中で特に優秀と認める論文に対して授与されるもの) を受賞いたしました。
    • 2014.01.02:
    • 田中雅明教授、大矢忍准教授、ファムナムハイ主任研究員(田中・大矢研究室、ナノ物理・デバイスラボ)による、強磁性半導体のバンド構造、フェルミ準位、量子力学的なトンネル伝導とそのデバイスに関するレビュー論文(Invited paper)がApplied Physics Reviews誌に掲載されました。
      Masaaki Tanaka, Shinobu Ohya, and Pham Nam Hai, "Recent progress in III-V based ferromagnetic semiconductors: Band structure, fermi level, and tunneling transport," Applied Physics Reviews, Vol.1, pp.011102/1-26 (2014). DOI: 10.1063/1.4840136