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FY 2025

  • September 2025, The vision-based navigation technology developed by Professor Keiki Takadama at the Interdisciplinary Information Science Research Division, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and others, has received the FY 2025 Technology Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE), Japan. Web article
  • August 2025, The poster presentation titled “Exploring the Impact of Moderate Movement Blending and Partner Impressions in Virtual Environments” by Yusuke Koseki, Kizashi Nakano, Takuji Narumi, Hideaki Kuzuoka, and Tomohiro Amemiya was honored with the Best Poster Award at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP ’25).
  • August 2025, Assistant Professor Kazuya Yamazaki of the Supercomputing Reserch Division has been awarded the 2025 Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ) Computer Science Research Award for Young Scientists.Web article
  • July 2025, A paper by Kohtaro Uchida, a graduate student in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, et. al, has received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 18th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (AAI2025), organized by the International Institute of Applied Informatics (IIAI). Web article
  • July 2025, Associate Professor Yuki Nagai from the Interdisciplinary Information Science Research Division received the JHPCN Outstanding Project Award for his research project titled “Development of a Self-Learning Monte Carlo Method Utilizing Both CPU and GPU Simultaneously”, conducted under the Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructure (JHPCN).Web article(in Japanese)
  • May 2025, the software “JuliaQCD”, developed by Associate Professor Yuki Nagai from the Interdisciplinary Information Science Research Division in collaboration with Lecturer Akio Tomiya from Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, was awarded the Excellence Award in the Development Category of the HPCI Software Awards, established by the HPCI Consortium.Web article(in Japanese)
  • April 2025, Project Professor Kiyoharu Aizawa from the Campus-wide Computing Research Division, and Professor Kengo Nakajima, Project Professor Shinji Sumimoto, Visiting Researcher Takashi Arakawa (also President of CliMTech Co., Ltd.), Associate Professor Takashi Shimokawabe, and Professor Toshihiro Hanawa from the Supercomputing Research Division received the Reiwa 7th Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Science and Technology. Web article(Japanese)

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).
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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