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

September 26, 2025
The 73rd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Development and practical implementation of a remote monitoring system that enables stable and efficient site surveillance
Koichi Nihei (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Hayato Itsumi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Takanori Iwai (NEC Laboratories Europe)

September 26, 2025
The 73rd Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Research, development and commercialization of gateless access control system using biometric recognition
Yusuke Morishita (Business Innovation Department)
Junichi Kamimura (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Hiroshi Fukui (Biometrics Research Laboratories)

September 10, 2025
The Special Award for the 27th Automatic Identification System Awards
Manual work analysis solution using video recognition AI
NEC Corporation

July 14, 2025
The 38th Advanced Technology Award "The Prize of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry"
R&D and Industrial Applications on “Video Recognition AI x LLM”
Jianquan Liu (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Junichi Funada (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Tetsuaki Suzuki (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Satoshi Yamazaki (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Masaya Fujiwaka (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Yasufumi Hirakawa (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Youhei Sasaki (Data Platform Service Department)
Naoki Shindou (Data Platform Service Department)

June 24, 2025
Gold Prize of the 2024 Field Innovation Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
Research, Development and Commercialization of Medical Large Language Models to streamline doctor’s work
Daisaku Shibata (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Yutaka Uno (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Kei Shibuya (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Masanori Tsujikawa (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Masahiro Kubo (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Shinya Miyakawa (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Kai Ishikawa (Data Science Laboratories)
Kunihiko Sadamasa (Data Science Laboratories)
Masafumi Oyamada (Data Science Laboratories)
Yuka Endo (Intellectual Property Portfolio Creation Department)
Mayu Kaya (Medical Solutions Department)
Akira Yamauchi (Medical Solutions Department)
Yasunari Takei (Medical Solutions Department)
Hayato Ota (Medical Solutions Department)
Riko Irikura (Medical Solutions Department)
Hirotsugu Meguro (Medical Solutions Department)
Manabu Kimura (Medical Solutions Department)
Takamu Matsumoto (Medical Solutions Department)
Kenichi Araki (Medical Solutions Department)
Makoto Fukui (Future Value Co-Creation Division)
Hitoshi Imaoka (NEC Fellow)
Koji Kanechika (Medical Solutions Department)
Ryo Ishii (Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital)
Yukio Katori (Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital)
Sadao Shoji (Department of Biodesign, Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center, Tohoku University Hospital)
Atsuhiro Nakagawa (Experience Design and Alliance Section, Tohoku University Hospital)
Shinya Sonobe (AI Lab, Tohoku University Hospital)
Susumu Fujii (Medical Data Utilization Center, Tohoku University Hospital)
Naoki Nakamura (Medical IT Center, Tohoku University Hospital)
Hideki Ota (Medical IT Center, Tohoku University Hospital)