NEC received the Grand Prize for the 26th Automatic Identification System Awards for "Shelf Monitoring Service (Planogram and Shortage Detection for improving Operational Efficiency in Retail Stores)”.
the Automatic Identification System Awards
List of winners

Takahiro Toizumi, Yuho Shoji and Yuka Ogino (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Yuya Kobayashi and Hidetaka Hane (Biometrics and Vision AI Department), Ryoma Oami (Corporate Business Development Division), Atsushi Ito and Masato Tsukada (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received the Sankei Shimbun Award for the 37^th Advanced Technology Award for "Research and Development of Iris Recognition”.
Advanced Technology Award
List of winners

Rui Ishiyama (Business Development Department) received SSII2024 Takagi Prize for "Research on image sensing architecture to expand applications of artifact metrics (Fingerprint of Things)”.
Sensing via Image Information
List of winners

Yohei Hasegawa, Atsushi Kamoi, Masaki Aizono and Takeshi Kato (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024 Best Paper Award for "Free-Space Optical Communication System with Wide-Steering Beam for Terrestrial Access Networks”.
IEEE ICC2024
IEEE ICC2024 Best Paper Awards

Masayuki Ariyoshi (Advanced Network Research Laboratories), Kazumine Ogura (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories), Tatsuya Sumiya (Former Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories), Nagma Khan (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) and Shingo Yamanouchi, Toshiyuki Nomura (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received Best Paper Award & IEICE Paper of the Year for "Practical Implementation of Motion-Robust Radar Imaging and Whole-Body Weapon Detection for Walk-Through Security Screening”.
IEICE
List of winners

Takanobu Doi (Advanced Network Research Laboratories), Jun Shikida (Telecom Carrier Software Development Department), Daichi Shirase, Kazushi Muraoka, Naoto Ishii (Advanced Network Research Laboratories), Takumi Takahashi (Osaka University) and Shinsuke Ibi (Doshisha University) received IEICE Best Paper Award for "Receive Beamforming Designed for Massive Multi-User MIMO Detection via Gaussian Belief Propagation”.
IEICE The Institute of Electronics,Information and Communication Engineers
List of winners
Publication information

Jianquan Liu, Satoshi Yamazaki (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) and Youhei Sasaki (Data Platform Service Department) received The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Niwa Takayanagi Award Achievement Award for "Research & Development and Commercialization of Exploratory Video Retrieval Technology”.
The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
List of winners

Junko Iwasaki (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received The ITU Association of Japan 52nd ITU-AJ Accomplishment Awards for "Contributing to the international standardization of network cloudization and AI utilization”.
General incorporated foundation Japan ITU Association
List of winners

Takayuki Kuroda, Takuya Kuwahara, Ryosuke Hotchi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) and Toshiki Watanabe (Strategy Planning Office) received IEICE, Technical committee on Information and Communication Management, 2023 Best Research Award for "Proposal of a quality evaluation model for automatic design of information and communication systems based on Intent”.
IEICE ICM
List of winners
Publication information

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

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

Akira Nakashima (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received 2023 Symposium on Cryptography and Information Security (SCIS2023), SCIS Paper Award for "Research for homomorphic encryption”.
ISEC
SCIS2023
List of winners

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

Shinya Yasuda (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems (NS) Young Researcher's Award for "Safe and Efficient Control of Cooperative Transportation Robot and Reduction of Computation Load”.
IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems
List of winners
Publication information

Masaki Inokuchi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, The Encouragement Prize for Invention for "Security assessment device”.
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Takuya Ogawa (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received KANTO Invention and Innovation Award, Kanagawa Prefecture Governor's Award for "Object tracking technology that enables long-term tracking”.
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Masataka Noguchi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received Prominent technician “Modern master craftsman" 2023 for "Semiconductor chip manufacturing".
Outline of the Award system
Press release from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
List of winners

Toshie Miyamoto (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) was awarded Medal with Yellow Ribbon (Autumn 2023), a national honor, for the " Plastic molders”.
Cabinet Office
Medals of Honour, etc.
List of winners

Kazuhiko Minematsu (Secure Systems Platform Research Laboratories), Hayato Kimura, Takanori Isobe (University of Hyogo, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) and Ryoma Ito (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) received Computer Security Symposium (CSS) 2023, Student paper award for "Forgery attacks against distributed SNS protocol Nostr”.
CSS2023

Hemant Prasad (Digital Technology Development Laboratories) received the 29th Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress (ITS-WC 2023), Best Paper Award for "Localization of Optic Fiber Cables for Traffic Monitoring using DFOS Data”.

Nakul Ghate, Shohei Mitani, Hirofumi Ueda (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received the 17th International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE2023), Best Paper Award for "Lightweight Fine-grained Access Control Mechanism Based on Zero Trust in CPS”.
SECUREWARE2023
List of winners

Prakash Chaki (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received Notable Services and Contributions towards the advancement of IEEE and the Engineering Professions.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Kaori Kobayashi (Medical Solutions Department), Eiji Yumoto (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories), Yuki Kosaka (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Yasuto Fushimi (Medical Solutions Department) and Kenichi Kamijo (Medical Device Software Department) received Japan Association for Medical Informatics, 6th Academic Paper Award, Best Academic Paper Award for "Identification of mild cognitive impairment subtypes predicting conversion to Alzheimer’s disease using multimodal data”.
Publication information

Takahiro Toizumi, Koichi Takahashi and Masato Tsukada (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received The 71st Electrical Science and Engineering Promotion Award for "Achieve and maintain world’s No. 1 iris recognition performance on NIST IREX10 to spread biometrics applications”.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

Eiji Takahashi (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received IEICE Communications Society: Distinguished Contributions Award for "Contribution as a Vice Chair of IEICE Technical Committee on Information and Communication Management”.
IEICE
List of winners

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

Takashi Egawa (Former Global Innovation Strategy Division, NEC) received The Telecommunication Technology Committee (TTC) Chairman's Award for "Achievements related to the standardization of AI ethics and trust”.
TTC
List of winners

Toru Yamada (Global Innovation Strategy Department) received The Telecommunication Technology Committee（TTC）Distinguished Service Award for "Contributions to standardization activities to meet the needs of the times as a Strategy Committee member”.
TTC
List of winners

Ryo Kawai, Noboru Yoshida, Jianquan Liu (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) and Kazuki Omi (Nagoya Institute of Technology) received the 15th Forum on Data Engineering and Information Management (DEIM2023), Excellent Paper Award for "Simple consulting about image recognition by using the machine learning model”.
DEIM2023
Award

Katsumi Emura (former Global Innovation Unit) was awarded the title of IPSJ Honorary Member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
Information Processing Society of Japan
List of winners

Hitoshi Imaoka (NEC Fellow) was awarded Medal with Purple Ribbon (Spring 2023), a national honor, for the "Developing high-precision face recognition technologies that contribute to global safety and security".
Cabinet Office
Medals of Honour, etc.
List of awards (Kanagawa Pref.)

Katsumi Emura (Global Innovation Unit) was awarded the title of Fellow of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) for "Pioneering research in optical communication technology, contributing to the development of the telecommunications industry and the management of academic conferences".
IPSJ
List of winners

Masayuki Ariyoshi (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Fellow for "R&D on Dynamic Spectrum Access and Rader-Based Security Systems".
IEICE
List of winners

Shoma Tateno (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Young Researcher's Award for "The capacity expansion of SDM transmission systems in submarine cable" and "Increase of capacity by bidirectional transmission in 6-core MCF submarine cable systems".
2022 IEICE General Conference
2022 IEICE Society Conference
Published paper
Published paper

Isamu Furuya (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received Information Security Encouragement Award for "Corruption-Correctable Message Authentication Code".
ISEC Program
List of winners
Publication information

Tsenjung Tai (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Japan 2022 for Development of high-precision image recognition technology specialized for SAR satellite images to rapidly assess disaster-affected areas for immediate response.
MIT Technology Review
List of winners

Tomohiko Yagyu, Hirofumi Ueda, Masaki Inokuchi, Shunichi Kinoshita and Ryo Mizushima (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received Telecom Advanced Technology Research Support Center (SCAT) Chairman’s Award 2022 for Development and practical application of automated cyber attack risk analysis technology.
SCAT
List of winners

NEC Ibérica and NEC Laboratories Europe advance data space and 5G technology research with a smart campus for the University of Murcia

Kosuke Kinoshita, Takahiro Kumura, Yuki Yamaguchi and Taichi Tanaka (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received Intelligence, Informatics and Infrastructure Excellent Paper Award The 3rd AI/Data Science Symposium JSCE for "Research on anomalous displacement detection of bridges using satellite SAR images”.
Japan Society of Civil Engineers
List of winners

Tomoyuki Hino (Digital Technology Development Laboratories), Philip Ji (NEC Laboratories America) and Hitoshi Sakurai (1st Solution Sales Department), received The 70th Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering Award for "Development and Implementation of Traffic Monitoring Technology Using Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing” and attended the presentation ceremony.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

Mobility Robot Group, Business Development Department received MCPC Award 2022 Service & Solution, Award of Excellence for Wireless controlled transport robot for distribution centers that "understands and controls the entire space”.
Mobile Computing Promotion Consortium
2022 Awards Ceremony

Toshie Miyamoto of Secure System Platform Research Laboratories received Prominent technician “Modern master craftsman” 2022 for Bioplastic materials development engineer.
Prominent technician “Modern master craftsman”
List of winners

Junichi Abe, Daisaku Ogasahara (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2022 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention" for Frequency Deviation Compensation Method for Optical Communications (JP 6519479).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Takanori Iwai of Secure Systems Platforms Research Laboratories received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2022 "Chairman's Prize from the Kanagawa Institute of Invention and Innovation" for Control signal load reduction technology for mobile networks (JP 6528888).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Shuhei Noyori, Makoto Yasukawa, Kosuke Nishihara and Yuki Kosaka (Biometrics Research Laboratories) et al. received Best paper award 12th Biennial Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI2022) for "Spine-edge-based Features Extracted From 2D Images Enable Automatic Spine-posture Assessment”.
APAMI2022

Jiro Abe (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received JSCE Annual Meeting Excellent Presentation Award for "Deep learning-based automatic detection of spalling and exposed rebar in concrete bridges using LiDAR data”.
JSCE Annual Meeting
List of winners
Technical report

Karen Stephen, Jianquan Liu (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories), Anusha Bhamidipati (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Yongkang Wong and Mohan Kankanhalli (National University of Singapore) received the Best BNI (Brave New Ideas) Paper award at the 30th ACM Multimedia Conference 2022 for "Compute to Tell the Tale: Goal-Driven Narrative Generation”.
ACM Multimedia 2022, Lisbon
BNI paper
NUS Press release

Shohei Maruyama, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Takeo Onishi, Eiji Takahashi, (Secure System Platform Research Laboratories) received APNOMS2022 Best Paper Award for " Identifying Root Cause of 5G Radio Quality Deterioration Using Machine Learning”.
APNOMS2022
IEICE
KICS

Tomoyuki Hino (Digital Technology Development Laboratories), Philip Ji (NEC Laboratories America), Hitoshi Sakurai (1st Solution Sales Department), received The 70th Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering Award for "Development and Implementation of Traffic Monitoring Technology Using Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing”.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

Hemant Prasad, Daisuke Ikefuji (Digital Technology Development Laboratories), Murtuza Petladwala (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories), and Hitoshi Sakurai (City Infrastructure Solution Division), et al. received the 28th Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress (ITS-WC 2022), Best Paper Award for "Noisy Trajectory Suppression Method for Traffic Flow Monitoring using Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing”.
28th Annual ITS World Congress: Los Angeles - ITS America
ITS World Congress Closing Ceremony – YouTube

Toru Yamada (CTO Strategy Department) received Outstanding Contributions Award IEICE Communications Society for "Accomplishment and leadership as Chair of IEICE Technical Committee on Standardization and Innovation in ICT”.
IEICE
List of winners

Kazushi Muraoka (Advanced Network Research Laboratories) received IEICE , Communication Society, Distinguished Contributions Award for " Contribution as a Secretary of IEICE Technical Committee on Radio Communication System”.
IEICE
List of winners

Chenhui Huang (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received IEEE EMBS Japan Chapter Young Researcher Award for "Chenhui Huang, Special Researcher, Biometrics Research Laboratories”.
EMBS 2022
List of winners
Publication information

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] NEC NGSI-LD Scorpio Broker selected for Amazon Web Services’ Smart Territories Framework

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] NEC and research partners receive top recognition for hXDP technology, simplifying the use of specialized hardware in cloud and edge environments while reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Masahiro Serizawa (Global Innovation Strategy Division) received The Telecommunication Technology Committee（TTC）Chairman's Award for " Long-standing contributions to standardization on voice / audio coding and multimedia”.
The Telecommunication Technology Committee

Katsumi Emura (Global Innovation Unit) received FY2021 IPSJ Contribution Award for "Outstanding research achievements in driving research and development of information and communication technology, contributions to industry-academia-government collaboration for the development of the information and communication industry, and contributions to the development of the Information Processing Society of Japan as President”.
Information Processing Society of Japan
IPSJ Contribution Award

Tatsuya Sumiya (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received IEICE RECONF Best Presentation Award (Corporate Category) for "FPGA Implementation of Radar Imaging for Walk-Through Security Screening System”.
IEICE Technical Committee Submission System (RECONF)
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Yuki Yamaguchi, Taichi Tanaka and Masato Toda (Visual Intelligence Research Laboratories) received RSSJ Best Presentation Award for " A method of SAR coherent change detection robust to layover regions using SAR tomography”.
The Remote Sensing Society of Japan

Masahiro Saiko (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Naoto Maeda (Digital Healthcare Business Development Division), Mohamed Abdelrahim and Pradeep Bhandari (Queen Alexandra Hospitals) received The ESGE Innovation of the Year Award (Best Procedural Innovation) for "WISE VISION® Endoscopy: A Novel Artificial Intelligence System for Computer Assisted Detection and Localisation of Early Barrett’s Neoplasia During Endoscopy”.
European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Hitoshi Imaoka (NEC Fellow), Akihiro Hayasaka, Yusuke Morishita, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Koichi Takahashi (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology "Awards for Science and Technology" (Development Category) 2022 for "Development of high accuracy facial recognition technology that contributes the security & safety of the world”.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

[NEC Laboratories India Press Release] NEC Laboratories India & Tamil Nadu Agricultural University sign MoU to co-create newer agri-tech solutions to improve agri output

Hideyuki Shimonishi (System Platform Research Laboratories), received The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Fellow for "Research and Development of Software-Defined Networking and its Control and Management”.
IEICE
Fellow Title Presenter

Takanobu Doi (System Platform Research Laboratories) received The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Young Researcher's Award for "Evaluation of Trainable Gaussian Belief Propagation Using 3GPP CDL Channel Model” and ”Trainable Gaussian Belief Propagation Initialized by MMSE Filters”.
IEICE 2021 General Conference
IEICE 2021 Society Conference

Yuichi Nakamura (Executive Professional, Global Innovation Unit) received Information Processing Society of Japan Study Group Activity Contribution Award 2021 for "Contribution to study group activities of system and LSI technology”.
Information Processing Society of Japan
Study Group Activity Contribution Award

Yuyang Dong (Data Science Research Laboratories) received DBSJ Kambayashi Young Researcher Award 2021 for "International contributions to research and development on data extension and integration”.
The Database Society of Japan(DBSJ)
DEIM2022
List of winners

[NEC Laboratories Europe Web update] Biomedical AI　Advancing medicine through the power of AI

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] NEC Laboratories Europe achieves breakthrough in smart surface technology for 5G and beyond wireless connectivity

[NEC Laboratories Europe Publications] D. Friede, M. Niepert: “Efficient Learning of Discrete-Continuous Computations Graphs”, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021
M. Niepert, Minervini Pasquale, Luca Franceschi: “Implicit MLE: Backpropagating Through Discrete Exponential Family Distributions”, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021

Tomoya Soma (Secure System Research Laboratories), Haifeng Chen (NEC Laboratories America), Masanao Natsumeda (Secure System Research Laboratories), received The 69th Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering Award for "A technology for detecting anomalies in large infrastructure systems using System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT)”.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

Masaki Inokuchi, Shunichi Kinoshita, Tomohiko Yagyu (Secure System Research Laboratories) received The 69th Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering Award for "Development and practical application of automated cyber attack risk analysis technology”.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

Jianquan Liu (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Shoji Nishimura (Global Innovation Strategy Division), Daisuke Sugidomari (NEC Aerospace Systems), received The 69th Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering Award and Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for "The Development & Commercialization of A Video Search Technology Discovering Unregistered Target People from Million-Scale Videos in 10s”.
The Promotion Foundation for Electrical Science and Engineering
List of winners

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] Transgene and NEC announce positive preliminary data from Phase I studies of TG4050, a novel individualized neoantigen cancer vaccine

NEC (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received Embedded Technology Excellence Prize at ET / IoT Technology AWARD 2021 hosted by Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association (JASA) for "Object detection acceleration technology by effectively utilizing AI chips”.
Japan Embedded Systems Technology Association(JASA)
Press Releases
Technology Introduction

Hiroo Ikeda of Biometrics Research Laboratories received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2021 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention" for TRAINING DATA GENERATING DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM, AND CROWD STATE RECOGNITION DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM (JP6008045/US9875431B2/ US10223620B2/US10515294B2/US10776674B2).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Jianquan Liu of Biometrics Research Laboratories received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2021 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention" for INDEX GENERATING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND SEARCH DEVICE AND SEARCH METHOD (JP6183376/US10713229B2).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Kazuhiko Minematsu (Secure System Research Laboratories), et al. received Computer Security Symposium 2021, Encouraging Prize for "Security Analysis of End-to-end encryption SFrame”
Computer Security Symposium 2021 (CSS2021)

Masayuki Ariyoshi (Data Science Research Laboratories) received IEICE, Communication Society, Outstanding Contributions Award for "For accomplishment and leadership as Chair of IEICE Technical Committee of Smart Radio”.
IEICE
List of winners

Yohei Hasegawa (System Platform Research Laboratories) received IEICE, Communication Society, Distinguished Contributions Award for "Contribution as a Reviewer for Papers Submitted to IEICE Communication Society”.
IEICE
List of winners

Yohei Hasegawa (System Platform Research Laboratories) received IEICE, Communication Society, Distinguished Contributions Award for "Contribution as a vice-chairman of the council of the technical committee representatives”.
IEICE
List of winners

Kazushi Muraoka (System Platform Research Laboratories) received IEICE, Communication Society, Distinguished Contributions Award for "Contribution as a Reviewer for Papers Submitted to IEICE Communication Society"
IEICE
List of winners

Anan Sawabe (System Platform Research Laboratories) received IEICE, Technical Committee on Communication Systems, Encouraging Award 2020 for "A self-learning traffic analysis method for self-driving private mobile networks”
Technical Committee on Communication Systems
Prize

Seiya Shibata (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received IPSJ-CS Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award 2020 for "Contribution for IPSJ SIG-SLDM".
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
List of winners

Hiroshi Fukui, Yusuke Morishita (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received The 24th Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2021), Interactive presentation award for "Wide Range Feature Extraction by Efficient Self-Attention with Dilated Pattern ”
MIRU2021
List of winners

Masayuki Ariyoshi, Kazumine Ogura, Shingo Yamanouchi, Tatsuya Sumiya, Nagma Khan, Toshiyuki Nomura (Data Science Research Laboratories) received Excellent Paper Award, Congress of Japan Railway Cybernetics for "Invisible Sensing -Walk-through Concealed Weapon Detection-”.
Congress of Japan Railway Cybernetics

Shogo Hayashi (Data Science Research Laboratories) received 2020 JSAI Best Paper Award for "Active Change-Point Detection”
The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
JSAI Best Paper Award
Original Paper

Jianquan Liu (Biometrics Research Laboratories) received IPSJ 2020 Research and Engineering Award for "Research and Development of Video Analysis Technology for Unknown Persons.”
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
IPSJ 2020 Research and Engineering Award

Takuya Araki, Kazuhisa Ishizaka (Data Science Research Laboratories) received IPSJ 2020 Industrial Achievement Award for "Development of a vector computer based on new architecture and its application to AI”.
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
IPSJ 2020 Industrial Achievement Award

Masahiro Saiko (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Yukiko Masaike (NEC Europe Ltd.), Shota Ohtsuka, Naoto Maeda, Hitoshi Ikeda (Digital Healthcare Business division), et al. received United European Gastroenterology, UEG Week 2020, Best of Endoscopy of UEG Week 2020 for "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS FOR DETECTION OF EARLY BARRETT'S NEOPLASIA"
United European Gastroenterology

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] NEC Laboratories Europe supports InHANSE innovative clinical cancer research

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] Building Beyond 5G systems with NEC technology for next-generation mobile services

[NEC Laboratories Europe Press Releases] Lifesaving NEC drone technology quickly locates missing natural disaster victims by mobile phone

Masaki Inokuchi (Security Research Laboratories) received IPSJ2020 Yamashita SIG Research Award for "Countermeasure planning method using attack graph for large scale environment”.
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
IPSJ2020 Yamashita SIG Research Award

Masatoshi Ishikawa of NEC Advisor (Tokyo University) received The 53rd Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement for "Development of ultra-high-speed vision and its application”.
The Ichimura Prize in Science for Excellent Achievement Winner
The Ichimura Prize in Science

Naoto Ohsaka (Data Science Research Laboratories) received DBSJ2020 Kambayashi Young Researcher Award for "Study on database”.
The Database Society of Japan(DBSJ)
DBSJ2020 Kambayashi Young Researcher Award

Yohei Hasegawa, Hidemi Noguchi, Kohei Hosokawa (System Platform Research Laboratories) and Morihiko Ota (1st Network Solutions Division) received IEICE Photonic Network Research Award for Enlarging optical communication capacity with relaxing error-ratio constraints and its system.
Technical Committee on Photonic Network (PN)

Masahiro Saiko (Biometrics Research Laboratories) and Yukiko Masaike (NEC Europe Ltd.) received British Society of Gastroenterology, BSG2020 Annual meeting, Gut Award for "Pixel-Based Deep Learning Models, A Step Closer To Real-Time Computer-Assisted Detection of Barrett’s Neoplasia”.
British Society of Gastroenterology

Kazuhiko Minematsu and Akiko Inoue of Security Research Laboratories received Telecom Advanced Technology Research Support Center (SCAT) Chairman’s Award for Finding the vulnerability of the authenticated encryption scheme OCB2 and contribution to exclude it from ISO standard.
SCAT Award 2020 Press Release

Kazuhiko Minematsu and Akiko Inoue of Security Research Laboratories received Telecom Advanced Technology Research Support Center (SCAT) Chairman’s Award for Finding the vulnerability of the authenticated encryption scheme OCB2 and contribution to exclude it from ISO standard.
SCAT Award 2020 Press Release

Tsai Jawshen of Former Smart Energy Research Laboratories (Tokyo University of Science) and Yasunobu Nakamura of Former Fundamental and Environmental Research Laboratories (Tokyo University) received Asahi Prize 2020 for "Creation of superconducting qubits that contribute to the development of quantum information technology".
Asahi Prize 2020 Press Release
Asahi Prize

Dheeraj Kotagiri, Anan Sawabe, Takanori Iwai (System Platform Research Laboratories) received International Telecommunication Union (ITU), AI/ML in 5G Challenge the 4th Prize for “Graph Structure based Radio Link Failure Prediction”.
ITU
Winners
Introduction of awards

Motoo Nishihara, CTO of NEC, will be presenting “NEC’s Social Value Creation and Global R&D” at “IIT2020 : The Future is Now”, an annual IIT alumni conference held on Dec 5th and 6th JST.
Detailed info
Register at https://www.iit2020.org/ to join the session.

Fumiyo Takano and Takuya Araki (Data Science Research Laboratories) received The Eighth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR) Best Paper Award for “Combinatorial Clustering Based on an Externally-Defined One-Hot Constraint”.
CANDAR
CANDAR Awards

Hikaru Tsuchida (Security Research Laboratories), received ISITA2020 Best Student Paper Award and IEEE Information Theory Japan Chapter Young Researcher Best Paper Award for “Client-Aided Bit-Composition Protocol with Guaranteed Output Delivery”.
Engineering Sciences Society, IEICE
Award pages

Akinori Ebihara, Kazuyuki Sakurai (Biometrics Research Laboratories), Hitoshi Imaoka (NEC Fellow) received International Joint Conference on Biometrics（IJCB) 2020Google PC Chairs Choice “Best Paper Award” for Specular- and Diffuse-reflection-based Face Spoofing Detection for Mobile Devices.
IJCB2020
Paper

Atsufumi Shibayama of System Platform Research Laboratories received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2019 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention" for Digital Filter Circuit and Digital Filter Control Method (JP 5768819).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

Masanao Natsumeda of NEC Laboratories America, Inc. received Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto 2019 "The Encouragement Prize for Invention" for System Analysis Device And System Analysis Method (JP 6183452/US 10311172B2/EP 2975525B1).
KANTO Invention and Innovation Award
List of winners

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

Toru Takahashi(GAZIRU Co. LTD)and Rui Ishiyama ,Kengo Makino (Data Science Research Laboratories ) received The 40th JSPE Technology Award for “Establishment of artifact-metrics based identification with sensing and matching fingerprint of manufactured items”.

Takaya Miyamoto and Hiroshi Hashimoto of Biometrics Research Laboratories and Hitoshi Imaoka of NEC Fellow received The 23^rd Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding (MIRU2020), Interactive presentation award for “FaceSENet: An improvement of Squeeze-and-Excitation block for face recognition".
List of winners

Nobuhiko Itoh, Takanori Iwai (System Platform Research Laboratories ) and Ryogo Kubo ( Keio University ) received Technical Committee on Communication Quality Best Research Award in FY 2019 for “Congestion and Deadline-Aware Scheduling of LTE Networks for Connected Car Applications”.
List of best presentation award

Batnyam Enkhtaivan of Security Research Laboratories received Best Presentation of Session at The 2nd Blockchain and IoT Conference (BIOTC2020), International Electronics Communication Conference(IECC) for “Proof of Data Distribution Based on Trusted Hardware”.
List of best presentation award

Yohei Hasegawa, Hidemi Noguchi (System Platform Research Laboratories ) and Morihiko Ota ( 1st Network Solutions Division ) received IEEE ICC2020 Best Paper Award for “Optical Communication Capacity and Quality to Maximize End-User TCP/IP Throughput”.
List of winners

Hitoshi Takeshita, Matsumoto Keiichi and Emmanuel Le Taillandier de GABORY of System Platform Research Laboratories, et al. received The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) The 76^th Achievement Award for “Improved Optical Amplification Efficiency by using Turbo Cladding Pumping Scheme for Multicore Fiber Optical Networks”.
IEICE
2019 Paper Award Winners
presented paper

Tatsuya Sumiya of Date Science Research Laboratories received Young Researcher's Award 2019 at IEICE for “Motion Blur Suppression Accommodating to Fast Radar Imaging for Walk-Through Concealed Weapon Detection”.
IEICE

Satoshi Morinaga, Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, will present a lecture on "Realizing smart supply chains by next-generation AI technologies" at the German-Japanese Economic Forum in Hannover on July 15th.
In our "At the Pinnacle of Research and Development" section, Morinaga gives a brief overview of the topic.

Hiroaki Inoue, Data Science Research Laboratories, has been selected as ”AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars, AI2000” (published by Tsinghua University, China).

Ryosaku Shino of Biometrics Research Laboratories received JMAI Award at The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Medical Artifical Intelligence (JMAI2020) for “Qualitative Diagnosys with Colonoscopic Images using Deep Learning”.

In the STAM journal Asia Research News, NEC's achievement related to material informatics (Yuma Iwasaki, et al of System Platform Research Laboratories) was introduced as noteworthy achievements.

System Platform Research Laboratory will exhibit 4 contents
(quantum annealing, materials informatics, nano carbon, high-performance biomaterial) and conducts seminars at nano tech 2020(International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference). nano tech 2020 detail
Seminar detail (Dr. Yuichi Nakamura, Vice President)
Seminar detail (Mr. Masayuki Shirane, System Platform Research Laboratories, Senior Manager)

Yadong Pan and Shoji Nishimura of Biometrics Research Laboratories received IAPR Best Application Paper Award at the 5th Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2019) for “Multi-Person Pose Estimation with Mid-Points for Human Detection under Real-World Surveillance”.

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Awards at ACPR 2019

Yoshinori Koda of Biometrics Research Laboratories received BIOSIG2019 Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG 2019) for “Development of 2,400ppi Fingerprint Sensor for Capturing Neonate Fingerprint within 24 Hours after Birth”.

BIOSIG2019

Salita Sombatsiri, Seiya Shibata, Yuki Kobayashi, Hiroaki Inoue, Takashi Takenaka and Takeo Hosomi of Data Science Research Laboratories, et al. received T-SLDM Best Paper Award（IPSJ, T-SLDM Vol.12）for “Parallelism-flexible Convolution Core for Sparse Convolutional Neural Networks on FPGA”.

IPSJ Transactions on System LSI Design Methodology

Collaboration research between MIT Media Lab and NEC (Terumi Umematsu, Biometrics Research Laboratories) on "Stress forecasting technology" has been featured on MIT Media Lab's website as one of the successful collaborations.

NEC-MIT Media Lab collaboration

Akiko Inoue and Kazuhiko Minematsu of Security Research Laboratories, et al. received Best Paper Award at CRYPTO 2019 for “Cryptanalysis of OCB2: Attacks on Authenticity and Confidentiality”.

CRYPTO 2019
Accepted paper

Harumichi Yokoyama and Takuya Araki of Date Science Research Laboratories, et al. received Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC- 2019) for “Parallel Latent Dirichlet Allocation Using Vector Processors”.

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Terumi Umematsu of Biometrics Research Laboratories received Best Paper Award – 1st Prize at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) for “Improving Students' Daily Life Stress Forecasting using LSTM Neural Networks”.

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BHI 2019 Best Paper Awards
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Accepted paper

Takao Nishitani, former researcher of Multimedia Research Laboratories won Industrial Innovation Award at IEEE Signal Processing Society for “Contributions to the ADPCM Standard and its dedicated programmable DSP device”.

2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Awardees

Motoo Nishihara, Executive Vice President and CTO of NEC will present a lecture "NEC's New Strategy for Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation" at Stanford University on May 7, 2019.

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Takeo Hosomi and Takuya Araki of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories will present a lecture on "Accelerating Spark MLlib and DataFrame with Vector Processor “SX-Aurora TSUBASA” at Spark + AI Summit in San Francisco on April 24.

Satoshi Morinaga, Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, will present a lecture on "Realizing smart supply chains by next-generation AI technologies" at the German-Japanese Economic Forum in Hannover on April 3rd.

Hitoshi Imaoka, Research Fellow & Director at NEC Biometrics Research Laboratories, and Hans Peter Graf, Department Head of Machine Learning at NEC Laboratories America will join a panel discussion at The AI Summit "AI/SUM" (Apr. 22-24, Tokyo).

Ryohei Fujimaki, former Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, was officially named as CEO of dotData Inc. on Nov. 19, 2018. Dr. Fujimaki has permanently transferred to dotData Inc. and now been fully committed to its business as of Jan. 1, 2019 along with other former NEC researchers - Yukitaka Kusumura, Yusuke Muraoka, and Masato Asahara.

Munehiro Tada, Principle Researcher at NEC System Platform Laboratory was elevated as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to copper interconnects for very-large-scale integration as of January 1st.

NEC Laboratories Europe provided a very high-resolution digital scanner to the Department of Applied Tumor Biology at the Institute of Pathology of the Heidelberg University Hospital for digitizing images of cancer tissue samples. Both parties agreed to conduct a joint research to create artificial intelligence based on machine learning to predict the clinical biology and therapy responsiveness of human cancers.

Akiko Inoue, researcher at NEC Security Research Laboratories won the Best Rump Session Prize at Asiacrypt2018, a prestigious international conference in the field of cryptology.
She verified vulnerability of OCB2, an ISO standard authentication encryption.

Dr. Liu Jianquan, researcher at NEC Biometrics Laboratories is featured in a PR video created by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) of Japan to promote the recruitment of highly-skilled foreign professionals.

Takeo Hosomi, Senior Engineer at NEC Data Science Research Laboratories was interviewed by insideHPC at ISC 2018.
He explains how SX-Aurora Tsubasa accelerates AI processing.

Reports say that a man trying to enter the US illegally was arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport thanks to the facial recognition system powered in part by NEC. There are technologies developed at the NEC laboratories behind this story.

The key members in India of newly set NEC Laboratories India, got interview coverage by Catch Asia.
They emphasize the strategy to create solutions for developing countries and NEC's long relationship with India.

Kazue Sako, Distinguished Researcher at Security Research Laboratories will stand as a panelist in the workshop of "Blockchain" on July 10th.

NEC's Data Science Research Laboratories will hold a presentation about AI-platform at HPCC-2018* on June 28th.

NEC System Platform Research Laboratories will hold demo presentation titled as "Artificial Intelligence Makes Smart BPM Smarter" with KDDI and Sri Lanka Telecom at Digital Transformation World 2018 (5/14-16) held at Nice, France.

NEC's System Platform Research Laboratories will exhibit an adaptive network control technology that allows automobiles to share information about their surroundings in real-time at the 16th ITS Asia-Pacific Forum FUKUOKA 2018 (5/8-10).

Dr. Akihiko Sugiyama, Research Fellow at NEC Data Science Research Laboratories will stand as a keynote speaker at IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS (5/19).

Researcher Shinji Itoh at NEC Data Science Research Laboratories will hold a poster presentation at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS2018) on April 11th.

Researcher Shinya Yasuda at NEC System Platform Laboratories will hold a presentation at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC) on April 17th.

Researcher Keiichi Kisamori at NEC Data Science Research Laboratories will hold a presentation at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM18) which will be held from 5/3 to 5/5.

Dr. Ryohei Fujimaki will stand as a speaker at Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2018 at Grapevine, TX on 3/6.

Dr. Akihiko Sugiyama, Research Fellow at Data Science Research Laboratories, received Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Industrial Distinguished Leader Award.

Dr. Shinichi Yorozu, Deputy General Manager of IoT Devices Research Laboratories, will stand as a speaker at nano tech 2018.

Dr. Akihiko Sugiyama, Research Fellow at Data Science Research Laboratories, was appointed as a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee.
He will be participating in the selection process for the IEEE Fellow Class of 2019.

Dr. Masahiro Hayashi, Data Science Research Laboratories will hold poster poster presentation at Global Conference on Integrated Care 2018.

Mervyn Cheah, NEC Laboratories Singapore VP, will stand as a presenter at NEC Innovative Solutions Fair 2018.