Latest Awards
Parentheses indicates division he/she belonged to at time of award

November 19, 2015
The 63rd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award (OHM Technology Award)
Developing and implementation of the Phase change cooling technology which enables data centers to reduce air conditioning power consumption
Minoru Yoshikawa, Akira Shoujiguchi (Smart Energy Research Laboratories)

November 19, 2015
The 63rd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award (OHM Technology Award)
Development and Commercialization of Quick, Low Network Load and Accurate Available Bandwidth Estimation Technique
Takashi Oshiba, Hiroshi Yoshida, Kozo Satoda (Cloud System Research Laboratories)

November 19, 2015
The 63rd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award (OHM Technology Award)
Research and development of high-speed TCP/IP data transfer technologies for innovative performance improvement on long distance networks and wireless networks
Yohei Hasegawa, Yasuhiro Mizukoshi, Masahiro Jibiki (Cloud System Research Laboratories)

November 13, 2015
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2015 "The Prize of the President of the Kanagawa Division of the Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation"
Paging control method in Mobile Networks (patent No. 3934346/US 8446828)
Shuichi Karino (Green Platform Research Laboratories)
Yasuhiro Mizukoshi (Cloud System Research Laboratories)

November 13, 2015
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2015 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Technology for synthesizing electronic custom circuits from a software program (patent No. 4973101/ US 8250502 B2)
Kazutoshi Wakabayashi (Green Platform Research Laboratories)

November 13, 2015
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2015 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding by wavelet transform (patent No. 4650592/US 8218645)
Jun Takada (Information and Media Processing Laboratories)

July 8, 2015
The 29th Advanced Technology Award "The Prize of Fuji Sankei Business i."
Development of Heterogeneous Mixture Learning Technology and Big Data Analytics Solutions
Ryohei Fujimaki (NEC Laboratories America)
Satoshi Morinaga, Riki Eto (Knowledge Discovery Research Laboratories)
Yosuke Motohashi, Kyota Kanno (Big Data Strategy Division)

June 11, 2015
European Inventor Award
Carbon nanotubes
Sumio Iijima (Central Research Laboratories), et al.

June 4, 2015
The 52nd Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Achievement Award
Realization of SDN concept and commercialization of SDN/OpenFlow products through agile open innovation approaches
Atsushi Iwata (NEC Corporation of America)
Hideyuki Shimonishi (Cloud System Research Laboratories)
Masayoshi Kobayashi (Knowledge Discovery Research Laboratories)

June 4, 2015
The 1st Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award
Development of Ultrahigh-Definition Video Coding Technologies and their Standardization and Practical Realization
Keiichi Chono (Broadcast and Media Division)