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FY 2024

  • November 2024, Professor Kengo Nakajima, Director of the Supercomputing Research Division at the Information Technology Center of the University of Tokyo, was recognized as a Fellow of the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science. Web article
  • November 2024, Sotaro Ishii from the Tanaka Laboratory, Campus-wide Computing Research Division, and the Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, received the Outstanding Paper Award for his paper “Statistical estimation of the number of legal positions in Shogi” (Authors: Sotaro Ishii, Tetsuro Tanaka) presented at the 29th Game Programming Workshop. link
  • September 2024, Sotaro Ishii from the Tanaka Laboratory, Campus-wide Computing Research Division, and the Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, received the Young Scientist Award for his paper “Estimating the number of reachable positions in Minishogii” presented at the 53rd SIG-GI (Game Informatics) technical meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan. link

FY 2023

  • February 2024, A researchers team consisting of Professors Ryo Nakamura, Yohei Kuga, and Kunio Akashi has been selected as the winner of the “Most innovative for HPC uses” award at the Data Mover Challenge 2023.
    See news article
  • September 20, 2023, A Researchers team from the University of Tokyo and the University College Dublin have won the Best Full Paper Runner-Up Award (one of the top three candidates out of 251 Full Papers submitted) and the Best Student Paper Award at ‘RecSys 2023,’ an international conference on recommendation systems sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
    See news article

FY 2022

  • March 2023, Professor Kengo Nakajima, leader of Supercomputing Research Division, received the SCA HPC Pioneer & Achievement Award at the Supercomputing Asia 2023 conference held in Singapore. SCA Awards page ITC News page
  • Dec. 8, 2022, A conference paper “A System-Wide Communication to Couple Multiple MPI Programs for Heterogeneous Computing” by Prof. Shinji Sumimoto et al. at the Supercomputing Research Division is selected for the Best Paper Award of Software Systems and Technologies Track at The 23rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT ‘22). See news article