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

November 24, 2026 (Release date: September 30, 2026)
The 74th Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award
Development and Practical Application of Action Recognition AI for Digitalizing Industrial Work Tasks from Video
Yasunori Babazaki (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Ryuhei Ando (Biometrics Research Laboratories)
Toru Takahashi (Biometrics Research Laboratories)

November 19, 2026 (Release date: November 5, 2026)
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, The Encouragement Prize for Invention
Traffic Monitoring Apparatus, System, Traffic Monitoring Method, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium (JP Patent No. 7416263)
Chaitanya Prasad Narisetty (Otter.ai, Inc. (Former NEC))
Tomoyuki Hino (Connected Infrastructure Research Laboratories)

November 19, 2026 (Release date: November 5, 2026)
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, The Encouragement Prize for Invention
Nonlinear Distortion Compensation Circuit for Optical Fiber Communications (JP Patent No. 6287866)
Wakako Maeda (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Junichi Abe (Connected Infrastructure Research Laboratories)

November 19, 2026 (Release date: November 5, 2026)
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, The Encouragement Prize for Invention
Inferring Behavioral Characteristics from Temporal Appearance Patterns (JP Patent No. 6217888)
Yasufumi Hirakawa (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Jianquan Liu (NEC Laboratories Asia Pacific)
Takuya Araki (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories)
Shoji Nishimura (Intent Exchange, Inc. (Former NEC))

June 29, 2026
Silver Prize of the 2025 Field Innovation Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI)
Research, Development and Commercialization of Safe Driving Instruction Support through the Integration of Video Recognition AI and LLM
Jianquan Liu (NEC Laboratories Asia Pacific)
Satoshi Yamazaki (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Yanbin Chen (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Zongyao Li (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Masaya Fujiwaka (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Yasufumi Hirakawa (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Junichi Funada (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Tetsuaki Suzuki (AI Solution Department)
Ryo Kawai (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Xiaotong Ji (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Kengo Ishida (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Hiroyoshi Miyano (Cyber-Physical Intelligence Research Laboratories)
Kazuhiro Ootsuka (Data Platform Service Department)
Youhei Sasaki (Data Platform Service Department)
Naoki Shindou (Data Platform Service Department)
Tingting Dong (Data Platform Service Department)
Kosuke Yamada (Data Platform Service Department)
Yusuke Tanaka (Data Platform Service Department)
Hiroaki Takeuchi (NEC Solution Innovators)
Wataru Itonaga (AI Business Strategy Department)
Hiroshi Kuzuno (AI Technology Services Division)
Akihiro Uchida (AI Technology Services Division)
Junji Sakai (AI Business Strategy Department)
Akihiko Iketani (AI Technology Services Division)
Kunihiko Sadamasa (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Masafumi Oyamada (Knowledge Science Research Laboratories)
Ikuko Fujikawa (Technology Service and Software Department)
Taisuke Inoue (Cyber Defense Business Development Department)
Yoshiki Dokan (NEC Business Intelligence)
Hisahiro Oba (Technology Service and Software Department)
Junya Komamaki (Technology Service and Software Department)
Tatsuki Matsumoto (Technology Service and Software Department)
Toshimichi Yokote (Technology Service and Software Department)
Naoshi Higuchi (NEC Solution Innovators)
Manmohan Chandraker (NEC Laboratories America)
Vijay Kumar (NEC Laboratories America)
Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore)
Yongkang Wong (NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute)

June 4, 2026
FY2025 IEICE Achievement Award
Research, Development, and Deployment of Ultra-High-Speed TCP Communication Technology
Yohei Hasegawa (Connected Infrastructure Research Laboratories)
Masahiro Jibiki (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT))
Yasuhiro Mizukoshi (Transport and Service Industries Solutions Division)