External Awards

Invited Talk Delegates Felicitation Award

Winner: Subhashri Chatterjee, Basic Research Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: October 15, 2025

Organization: Symposium on Microwave, Millimetre-wave and Beyond Technologies for Connected Future (µmTCF-2025)/The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research - Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CEERI), India

For “Temperature Dependent Ultrafast Edge Photocurrent in WTe2 Probed by On-chip THz Spectroscopy.”

Published as: C. Subhashri, Y. Katsumasa, W. Taro, P. Vasili, and K. Norio, “Temperature Dependent Ultrafast Edge Photocurrent in WTe2 Probed by On-chip THz Spectroscopy,” µmTCF-2025, Pilani, India, Oct. 2025.

Encouragement Award

Winner: Runa Kaneko, Network Innovation Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: December 18, 2025

Organization: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) Technical Committee on Optical Communication Systems (OCS)

For “Receiver-side DSP-based Fibre-longitudinal Monitoring of Power Transitions by Inter-band SRS in S+C+L-band Transmission.”

Published as: R. Kaneko, T. Sasai, F. Hamaoka, M. Nakamura, and E. Yamazaki, “Receiver-side DSP-based Fibre-longitudinal Monitoring of Power Transitions by Inter-band SRS in S+C+L-band Transmission,” IEICE Tech. Rep., Vol. 124, No. 65, OCS2024-10, pp. 7–10, 2024.

Specially Selected Paper

Winners: Toru Hara, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Ayako A. Hasegawa, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology; Jack Jamieson, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.; Mitsuaki Akiyama, Social Informatics Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: December 15, 2025

Organization: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

For “Investigation of Information Presentation Methods in Privacy Policies and User Perceptions.”

Published as: T. Hara, A. A. Hasegawa, J. Jamieson, and M. Akiyama, “Investigation of Information Presentation Methods in Privacy Policies and User Perceptions,” IPSJ Journal, Vol. 66, No. 12, pp. 1616–1632, 2025.

Young Researcher’s Award

Winner: Kentaro Hayashi, Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT, Inc.

Date: December 18, 2025

Organization: IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems

For “Network and Cost-aware Tool Selection System for MCP-integrated LLM.”

Published as: K. Hayashi, S. Ono, T. Takeda, and A. Nakao, “Network and Cost-aware Tool Selection System for MCP-integrated LLM,” IEICE Tech. Rep., Vol. 125, No. 301, NS2025-153, pp. 19–24, 2025.

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