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

November 24, 2020
Outstanding Skilled Person, Commendation from the Governor of Ibaraki Prefecture 2020
Semiconductor chip manufacturing
Noriyuki Iguchi (System Platform Research Laboratories )

November 12, 2020
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2020 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
System Analysis Device, And System Analysis Method (JP 6183452/US 10311172B2/EP 2975525B1)
Masanao Natsumeda (NEC Laboratories America, Inc. )

November 12, 2020
Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2020 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention"
Digital Filter Circuit and Digital Filter Control Method (JP5768819/US9281801B2)
Atsufumi Shibayama (System Platform Research Laboratories )

November 3, 2020
Medal with Yellow Ribbon, Government of Japan, 2020
Semiconductor chip manufacturing
Hiroko Someya (System Platform Research Laboratories )

September 24, 2020
National Commendation for Invention "Invention Prize" 2020
High-Efficient Video Coding (JP5867504)
Keiichi Chono (Broadcast and Media Division)
Hirofumi Aoki (Corporate Technology Strategy Division)
Yuzo Senda (2nd City Infrastructure Solutions Division)

August 5, 2020
The 23rd Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2020), Interactive presentation award
FaceSENet: An improvement of Squeeze-and-Excitation block for face recognition
Hitoshi Imaoka（NEC Fellow）
Takaya Miyamoto（Biometrics Research Laboratories）
Hiroshi Hashimoto（Biometrics Research Laboratories）

June 8, 2020
IEEE ICC2020 Best Paper Award
Optical Communication Capacity and Quality to Maximize End-User TCP/IP Throughput
Yohei Hasegawa (System Platform Research Laboratories )
Hidemi Noguchi (System Platform Research Laboratories )
Morihiko Ota ( 1st Network Solutions Division )

June 6, 2020
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) The 57th Achievement Award
Pioneering Research on Adaptive Beamforming for Sound Acquisition
Osamu Hoshuyama (Data Science Research Laboratories)
Yutaka Kaneda (Tokyo Denki University)

April 29, 2020
Medal with Yellow Ribbon, Government of Japan, 2020
Master of electrical apparatus artisan
Takanori Nishi (System Platform Research Laboratories)