New Honorary Members,Award Winners in 2025

Honorary Member

Tadayoshi ENOMOTO (Chuo University)Under construction

Osamu HASHIMOTO (Aoyama Gakuin University)Under construction

Distinguished Achievement and Contributions Award

Kunio KASHINO (NTT, Inc.)Under construction

Hideo FUJIKAKE (Former Tohoku University)Under construction

Takashi MIZUOCHI (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)Under construction

Achievement Award

Pioneering Research on Learned Image Compression

Jiro KATTO (Waseda University)

Heming SUN (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Under construction

Pioneering Research on the Foundations of Information Geometry and Quantum Information Theory

Hiroshi NAGAOKA (The University of Electro-Communications)

Under construction

Pioneering research and development on microwave and millimeter-wave diode ICs and their application to wireless systems.

Kenji ITOH (Kanazawa Institute of Technology)

Under construction

Research, development, and deployment of disaster-resilient networks based on an autonomous, decentralized, and cooperative architecture

Masugi INOUE (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Yasunori OWADA (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Under construction

Research and development of a new sound confinement technology using reverse-phase acoustic waves generated from the back of a speaker and its application

Hironobu CHIBA (NTT, Inc.)

Tatsuya KAKO (NTT, Inc.)

Kazunori KOBAYASHI (NTT sonority, Inc.)

Under construction

Research, Development, and Deployment of Ultra-High-Speed TCP Communication Technology

Youhei HASEGAWA (NEC Corporation)

Masahiro JIBIKI (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

Yashiro MIZUKOSI (NEC Corporation)

Under construction

Best Paper Award

A Common Lyapunov Function Approach to Event-Triggered Control with Self-Triggered Sampling for Switched Linear Systems

Shota NAKAYAMA (Hokkaido University)

Koichi KOBAYASHI (Hokkaido University)

Yuh YAMASHITA (Hokkaido University)

[IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E108–A, NO.4 APRIL 2025]

Under construction

Shield-Based Safe Control with Compensation of Computation Delays of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems

Toshimitsu USHIO (Nanzan University)

[IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E108–A, NO.5 MAY 2025]

Under construction

Standard Cell Structure and Diffusion Reordering for Block Area Reduction in Double Diffusion Break FinFET Process

Shinichi NISHIZAWA (Waseda University)

Shinji KIMURA (Waseda University)

[IEICE TRANS. FUNDAMENTALS, VOL.E108–A, NO.6 JUNE 2025]

Under construction

ADesign of 28GHz Multi-Sector Antenna for Indoor Base Station Using Yagi-Uda Antenna and Propagation Experiment

Yasuko KIMURA (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Yuki INOUE (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Hiroyuki ARAI (Yokohama National University)

[IEICE TRANS. COMMUN., Vol.J108–B No.7 2025]

Under construction

Coupling Quality Factor and Friis Formula Shake Hands on Wireless Power Transfer between Dipole Antennas

Shinji ABE (Power Wave Co., Ltd.)

Qiaowei YUAN (Tohoku Institute of Technology)

Takashi OHIRA (Toyohashi University of Technology)

[IEICE TRANS. COMMUN., VOL.E108–B, NO.8 AUGUST 2025]

Under construction

High-Performances Color Images Method for Estimating Radio Propagation Characteristics of Outdoor Environments

Takahiro TOMIE (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Satoshi SUYAMA (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Koshiro KITAO (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Nobuaki KUNO (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Minoru INOMATA (NTT, Inc.)

Wataru YAMADA (NTT, Inc.)

Motoharu SASAKI (NTT, Inc.)

[IEICE TRANS. COMMUN., VOL.E108–B, NO.12 DECEMBER 2025]

Under construction

300-GHz-band Wireless Data Transmission by a Terahertz-Wave Generation Method Using Tunable Laser

Naoto MASUTOMI (Kyushu University)

Shenghong YE (Kyushu University)

Ryota KAIDE (Kyushu University)

Yuya MIKAMI (Kyushu University)

Yuta UEDA (NTT, Inc.)

Kazutoshi KATO (Kyushu University)

[IEICE TRANS. ELECTRON., Vol.J108–C No.1 2025]

Under construction

Space-Division-Multiplexed Dual-Polarization Coherent Receiver Based on Metasurface

Kento KOMATSU (The University of Tokyo)

Go SOMA (The University of Tokyo)

Shota ISHIMURA (KDDI Research, Inc.)

Hidenori TAKAHASHI (KDDI Research, Inc.)

Takehiro TSURITANI (KDDI Research, Inc.)

Masatoshi SUZUKI (Chitose Institute of Science and Technology)

Yoshiaki NAKANO (Toyota Technological Institute)

Takuo TANEMURA (The University of Tokyo)

[IEICE TRANS. ELECTRON., Vol. J108–C No. 4 2025]

Under construction

Non-Contact Characterization of Two-Dimensional Electron Gas by Using Circularly Polarized TE11n Modes

Tomonori ARAKAWA (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech-nology)

Seitaro KON (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech-nology)

[IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E108-C No.10 2025]

Under construction

Efficient Correlated Sequence Queries for Large-scale DNA Databases

Ryuichi YAGI (University of Tsukuba)

Yuma NAOI (University of Tsukuba)

Hiroaki SHIOKAWA (University of Tsukuba)

[IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST., Vol. J108–D No. 5 2025]

Under construction

Progression Stage Mining for Uterine Contraction Sequences

Yuka TAMURA (The University of Osaka)

Yasuko MATSUBARA (The University of Osaka)

Tasuku KIMURA (The University of Osaka)

Tsuyoshi SEKITANI (The University of Osaka)

Sakaaki MACHIMURA (The University of Osaka)

Masayuki ENDO (The University of Osaka)

Tadashi KIMURA (The University of Osaka)

Yasushi SAKURAI (The University of Osaka)

[IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST., Vol. J108–D No. 5 2025]

Under construction

Efficient Two-Party Exponentiation from Quotient Transfer

Yi LU (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Keisuke HARA (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech-nology)

Kazuma OHARA (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech-nology)

Jacob SCHULDT (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Tech-nology)

Keisuke TANAKA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

[IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST., VOL.E108–D, NO.12 DECEMBER 2025]

Under construction

IEICE Paper of the Year

ADesign of 28GHz Multi-Sector Antenna for Indoor Base Station Using Yagi-Uda Antenna and Propagation Experiment

Yasuko KIMURA (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Yuki INOUE (NTT DOCOMO, INC.)

Hiroyuki ARAI (Yokohama National University)

[IEICE TRANS. COMMUN., Vol.J108–B No.7 2025]

Under construction

SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award

Contribution to academia

Research and Practical Implementation of Next-Generation Video Compression Technologies Using Deep Learning

Heming SUN (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Under construction

Contribution to industry

Research and Development of Autonomous Networks and Contributions to International Standardization and Operator Community

Takuya MIYASAKA (KDDI Research, Inc.)

Under construction

Young Researcher's Award

Engineering Sciences Society:6members

Awardwinner Affiliate (July, 2026)
Ren Igari Chiba Institute of Technology
Ryo Ito CyberAgent, Inc.
Fengkai Guo Tokyo University of Science
Chenyu Zhao Hokkaido University
Taichi Nakatsukasa Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Ken Nakamura Yamaguchi University

Communications Society:22members

Awardwinner Affiliate (July, 2026)
Hiroki Aoki KDDI Research, Inc.
Shunto Arai Iwate University
Shota Iwasaki Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Yuki Endo NTT EAST, Inc.
Toshiki Ouchi Hiroshima University
Daichi Ogata Furukawa Electric Corporation
Yuka Okamoto NTT, Inc
Asuka kakehashi NEC Corporation
Ikutoshi Katayama Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Naoki Kamiyoshikawa Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Hiromu Kamei Hitachi, Ltd.
Hiroto Kita Hiroshima University
Youhei Konishi KDDI Research, Inc.
Kahoko Takahashi NTT, Inc.
Naoki Takamura Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Kotaro Nagano NTT, Inc.
Keita Fukushima KDDI Research, Inc.
Takeru Fukushima NTT, Inc.
Akinori Matsushita Hitachi, Ltd.
Keisuke Murakami NTT, Inc.
Yasuyoshi Yamamoto NTT, Inc.
Jihyeok Yang Nagoya University

Electronics Society:8members

Awardwinner Affiliate (July, 2026)
Yoshiki Kamiura NTT, Inc.
Shohei Kosuga NTT, Inc.
Ryunosuke Saito Advantest Corporation
Hirotaka Sato Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Yusuke Sawada Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Atsuro Sambayashi Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Sojiro Masada Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Wataru Yoshida Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Information and Systems Society:4members

Awardwinner Affiliate (July, 2026)
Ryo Asahara Nagoya University
Ryota Okumura The University of Tokyo
Yuki Maeda LY Corporation
Ryoya Yamasaki Hitotsubashi University

Distinguished Educational Practitioners Award

Promotion and Standardization of Education in Computer Graphics and Visualization Technologies

Issei FUJISHIRO (Keio University)

Under construction

Textbook Authorship in Mathematics and Information Sciences and the University-wide, High School, and Societal Expansion of Data Science Education

Teruya MINAMOTO (Saga University)

Under construction

Developing a Digital Transformation Training Program Focused on In-house System Development Technology

Rihito YAEGASHI (Kagawa University)

Under construction

Educational Service Award

Plan, build, and operation of Electric and Electronics ECE Program

Ryoji OKUTSU (Former Azbil Corporation)

Contribution as Program Evaluator in Accreditation of Engineering Education

Masato KITAKAMI (Chiba University)

Contribution to Researcher Education and Enlightenment Activities through leading of Student and Young Researcher Groups

Takeshi KUBOKI (Hiroshima University)

Contribution to Education in the Field of Photonics through Support for Student Presentations at Research Meetings and International Conferences

Yuichi TOHMORI (Tsurugi-Photonics Foundation)

Contribution as Program Evaluator in Accreditation of Engineering Education

Toshihiro NISHIZONO (Nihon University)

Contribution as lecturer in mathematical design methods for radio communication systems

Tadashi MATSUMOTO (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Contribution for the improvement of young researchers' paper writing skills through lectures on how to write papers

Naobumi MICHISHITA (National Defense Academy)