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

March 21, 2024
The 39th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (Telecom System Technology Award)
Demonstration of Uncoupled 4-Core Multicore Fiber in Submarine Cable Prototype with Integrated Multicore EDFA
Hitoshi Takeshita (Advanced Network Research Laboratories)
Kohei Hosokawa (Advanced Network Research Laboratories)
Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory (Advanced Network Research Laboratories)
Kohei Nakamura (Submarine Project Department)
Yuushi Matsuo (Submarine Network Development Department)
Takanori Inoue (Submarine Network Development Department)
Yoshihisa Inada (Submarine Network Development Department)
Daishi Masuda (OCC Submarine Business Unit)
Tetsuya Hiwatashi (OCC Submarine Business Unit)

March 21, 2024
The 39th Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Award (Telecom System Technology Award)
Compensation and monitoring of transmitter and receiver impairments in 10,000-km single-mode fiber transmission by adaptive multi-layer filters with augmented inputs
Manabu Arikawa (Advanced Network Research Laboratories)
Masaki Sato (Advanced Network Research Laboratories)
Kazunori Hayashi (Kyoto University)

January 19, 2024
Telecom Advanced Technology Research Support Center (SCAT) Chairman’s Award
R&D and productization of secure multiparty computation
Jun Furukawa (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Toshinori Araki (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Hikaru Tsuchida (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Ryo Furukawa (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Fumihiro Taniguchi (Digital Technology Development Laboratories)
Takuya Takaseki (Digital Technology Development Laboratories)
Satoru Fujii (Digital Technology Development Laboratories)

November 30, 2023
The 71st Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Achieve and maintain world’s No. 1 iris recognition performance on NIST IREX10 to spread biometrics applications
Takahiro Toizumi (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Koichi Takahashi (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Masato Tsukada (Biometrics Research Laboratories)

November 29, 2023
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, Kanagawa Prefecture Governor's Award
Object tracking technology that enables long-term tracking
Takuya Ogawa (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)

November 29, 2023
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, The Encouragement Prize for Invention
Security assessment device
Masaki Inokuchi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)

November 13, 2023
Prominent technician “Modern master craftsman” 2023
Semiconductor chip manufacturing
Masataka Noguchi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)

November 3, 2023
Medal with Yellow Ribbon (Autumn 2023)
Plastic molders
Toshie Miyamoto (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)

June 23, 2023
Gold Prize of the 2022 Field Innovation Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
Development of an Automatic Farmed Fish Measuring System Using Image Recognition AI
Yasunori Babazaki (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Kota Iwamoto (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Katsuhiko Takahashi (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Eisuke Adachi (NEC Solution Innovators)
Makoto Takehara (NEC Solution Innovators)
Jun Kobayashi (Biometrics and Video Analytics Platform Department)

April 29, 2023
Medal with Purple Ribbon (Spring 2023)
Developing high-precision face recognition technologies that contribute to global safety and security
Hitoshi Imaoka (NEC Fellow)