Award Winners June 2022-March 2023
CONGRATULATIONS!
NOTES:
        -The titles are as of the time awarded. 
        -Recipients who belong to other departments/entities are excluded.
        PROF: Professor, 
  EMER: Emeritus Professor, 
  AOP: Associate Professor, 
  LECT: Lecturer, 
  PLECT: Project Lecturer, 
  AP: Assistant Professor/Research Associate, 
  PAP: Project Assistant Professor, 
  PR: Project Researcher, 
  SR: Special Researcher, 
  AS: Academic Stuff member, 
  D: Doctoral course student (D3: third-year doctoral course student), 
  M: Master’s course student
  
        
      
| AWARDED BY/AT: | AWARD | AWARD WINNERS | 
|---|---|---|
| Department of Advanced Materials Science | ||
| ISPlasma 2023/IC-PLANTS 2023 | Best Oral Presentation Award | NITTA Kaishu (D3) | 
| Clarivate Analytics | Highly Cited Reseracher (Chemistry) | ARIGA Katsuhiko (PROF) | 
| The Physical Sciety of Japan | Student Presentation Award | KIKUCHI Hodaka (D3) | 
| The Physical Sciety of Japan | Student Presentation Award | HAYASHIDA Takeshi (D2) | 
| The Physical Sciety of Japan | Student Presentation Award | YAMAGISHI Shigetada (M1) | 
| The American Physical Society | Outstanding Referee | SHIBAUCHI Takasada (PROF) | 
| Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan | BCSJ Award Article | MURATA    Tomohiro (D3) and other six members | 
| Millennium Science Forum | The 24th Sir Martin Wood Prize | WATANABE Shunichiro (AOP) | 
| Inoue Foundation for Science | Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists | MIYAMOTO Tatsuya (AP) | 
| The 12th CSJ Chemistry Festa | Poster Award | YAMANAKA Daisuke (M2) | 
| Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research for Transformative Research Areas (A) “Condensed Conjugation” | The 4th Young Scientist Poster Presentation Award | FURUKAWA Tomoki (M2) | 
| The 16th Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science 2022 | Best Poster Awards | KOBAYASHI Yuzu (D3) | 
| Institute    of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University Tagen Meeting | Director's Award | IKENOBE Toshiya (M2) | 
| The Materials Research Society of Japan | Award for Encouragement of Research | INOUE Kenichi (SR) | 
| The Physical Sciety of Japan | Student Presentation Award | ITO Masatoshi (D1) | 
| Joint Research Meeting of MEXT National Projects on Condensed-Matter Science | Young Scientist Award | KASUYA Naotaka (AP) | 
| Japan Society of Molecular Science | Poster Award | ITO Masatoshi (D1) | 
| Department of Advanced Energy | ||
| Industry    Applications Society, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan SAMCON 2023 | Outstanding Paper Award | FUJIMOTO Hiroshi (PROF), OHNISHI Wataru (LECT), MAE Masahiro (D3) | 
| The WPW 2022 Organizing Committee | Best Paper Award First Prize | FUJIMOTO Hiroshi (PROF), MATSUMOTO Ryo (D1) | 
| Fusion Energy Forum of Japan | Masaji Yoshikawa Memorial Prize for Fusion Energy | TANABE Hiroshi (AOP) | 
| National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | JT-60 Joint Research Excellence Award | YAMADA    Hiroshi (PROF), OGAWA Yuichi (EMER), OKADA Masato (PROF), YOSHIDA Zensho    (EMER) and six other members | 
| Department of Complexity Science and Engineering | ||
| AsiaHaptics 2022 | Best Paper Award – Finalist | SHINODA Hiroyuki (PROF) | 
| AsiaHaptics    2022 | Honorable    Mention of AsiaHaptics 2022 Tokyo Satellite Best Demonstration Award | SHINODA Hiroyuki (PROF), MAKINO Yasutoshi (AOP), MORISAKI Yuta (D3) and another member | 
| The    Society of Instrument and Control Engineers | SICE    System Integration Division Academic Achievement Award | SHINODA Hiroyuki (PROF) | 
| The    Society of Instrument and Control Engineers | SICE Sensing Forum Research Encouragement Award | SHINODA Hiroyuki (PROF), MAKINO Yasutoshi (AOP), KAMIGAKI Takaaki (PLECT), SUZUKI Shun (PLECT), MORISAKI Yuta (D3), ONISHI Ryoya (D1), and one more member | 
| Clarivate Analytics | Highly Cited Researcher (Geosciences) 2022 | YOKOYA Naoto (AOP) | 
| Asian Conference on Machine Learning | ACML Distinguished Contribution Award | SUGIYAMA Masashi (PROF) | 
| Microsoft Research | Microsoft Research Asia D-CORE Award | WANG Wei (D1) | 
| Chronogenesis: How the Mind Generates Time | Poster Award | TANIMOTO Sai (D2) | 
| Funai Foundation for Information Technology | Funai Achievement Award | SUGIYAMA Masashi (PROF) | 
| The 45th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan | MBSJ 2022 Science Pitch Award | WATANABE Emiri (D2) | 
| The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences | Obayashi Early Career Scientist Award | AOKI Shohei (LECT) | 
| RIKEN | Ohbu Research Incentive Award | DONG Xiaoyu (D2) | 
| RIKEN Center for Brain Science | Poster Award Gold Prize | TANIMOTO Sai (D2) | 
| Department of Integrated Biosciences | ||
| International Society for Computational Biology | Best Talk Award | NITTA Joel Hamilton (PRA) | 
| World Archaeological Congress | Best Student Paper Award | YAMAGUCHI Haruka (D3) | 
| The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology | Motoo Kimura Study Award | KAWAMURA Shoji (PROF) | 
| Young Researchers' Meeting in JSPP Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Plant-Structure-Opt" | Oral Presentation Award (Long-talk Section) | TAKAYANAGI Natsu (D1) | 
| Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. | Special Award (the Student Category) of the Advanced Technology Award | TAKEUCHI Ami (D1) | 
| The Japanese Society of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Research | Student Oral Presentation Award | MINAMITANI Fumina (D2) | 
| The Japanese Coral Reef Society | Shiro Kawaguchi Award | WADA Naohisa (PR) | 
| The Oceanographic Society of Japan | Student Presentation Award | EBIHARA Akiko (D3) | 
| The Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology | Excellent Paper Award | TAKEUCHI Ami (D1) | 
| The Japanese Society for Plant Biotechnology | Student Award | TAKEUCHI Ami (D1) | 
| The Japanese Society of Plant Morphology | JSPM Award 2022 | MATSUNAGA Sachihiro (PROF) | 
| The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan | Excellent Student Poster Award | NISHIGUCHI Tomoya (D1) | 
| The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan | Best Postdoctoral Oral Presentation Award | OMAE Kimiho (PR) | 
| The Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan | Eminent Evolutionalist Award | KAWAMURA Shoji (PROF) | 
| The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry | Excellent Paper Award Published in B.B.B | OHYA Yoshikazu (PROF), ITTO-NAKAMURA Kaori (PL), OHNUKI Shinsuke (PAP), KONDO Naoko (AS), and five other members | 
| The Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology | Excellence Award in Postdoc Poster Presentation Section | OMAE Kimiho (PR) | 
| Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences | ||
| The 9th CCR4-NOT Meeting | Best Presentation Award | TOMURO Kotaro (M1) | 
| Cold Spring Harbor Asia | Fellowship Award (Poster Award) | WAKIGAWA Taisei (D2) | 
| JSICR/MMCB | Young Investigator Award | HIRANUMA Ryosuke (D2) | 
| The American Society for Microbiology | Best Poster Prize | HOSHINO Miu (M2) | 
| The 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Molecular Target Therapy of Cancer | Poster Award | LEE Jin (D2) | 
| The 81st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association | Young Poster Award | MORINO Shun (D2) | 
| The 81st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cancer Association | Young Poster Award | LEE Jin (D2) | 
| The University of Tokyo Life Science Symposium | Poster Award | ASANO Koji (D1) | 
| The Japanese Society of HTLV-1 and Associated Disease | Young Investigator Award | KUSAYANAGI Seina (M2) | 
| The Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Bioinformatics | Best Poster Presentation | YAMAGUCHI Hideki (D3) | 
| Department of Natural Environmental Studies | ||
| The Mammal Society of Japan | Poster Award | KUBO Mugino (LECT), WINKLER Daniela (SR) | 
| Fisheries Oceanography | Top Downloaded Article | KITAGAWA Takashi (PROF), KIMURA Shingo (PROF), and other three members | 
| The Oceanographic Society of Japan | Young Scientist Award | ISHIYAMA Yoko (D1) | 
| The Japanese Forest Society | Student Poster Award | ABE Hiroshi (D1) | 
| The Japan Association for Quaternary Research | JAQUA Academic Award | SUGAI Toshihiko (Prof) | 
| The Japan Association for Quaternary Research | Best Student Presentation Award | NAKANISHI Ryo (D3) | 
| The Geological Society of Japan | Young Scientist Award | NAKANISHI Ryo (D3) | 
| The Geological Society of Japan | Best Paper Award | NAKANISHI Ryo (D3) | 
| Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment | ||
| IEEE OES Japan Chapter | IEEE OES Japan Chapter OCEANS Student Support Program | SEKIMORI Yuki (D1) | 
| International Symposium on Underwater Technology | Sponsor Prize by Shoshin Corporation | SEKIMORI Yuki (D1) | 
| American Bureau of Shipping | 2023 Best Thesis Award | SEKIMORI Yuki (D1) | 
| Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo | UTokyo-IIS Research Collaboration Initiative Award 2022 | CHUN Sehwa (M2) | 
| Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo | Continental UTokyo-IIS Global Engineering Fellowship | CHUN Sehwa (M2) | 
| The Japan Association for Coastal Zone Studies | Outstanding Presentation Award | AOKI Motohide (M2) | 
| The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | Best Presentation Award | NAKASHIMA Takuya (D2) | 
| The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers | Grand Prize at the Poster session of the Annual Autumn Meeting | NAITO Yuki (M2) | 
| The Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers | Scholarship Prize | MIYASHITA Tomoya (M2) | 
| Department of Environment Systems | ||
| International Society for Scientific Network | ISSN    International Research Award 2022 (International Best Researcher Award in Applied Geophysics) | MATSUSHIMA Jun (PROF), KODAMA Masashi (D2) | 
| The 12th International Conference on Supercritical Fluids (Supergreen 2022) | Best Oral Presentation Award | AKIZUKI Makoto (LECT) | 
| The 12th International Conference on Supercritical Fluids (Supergreen 2022) | Hottest Paper Award | LEGASPI Anna Esperanza (D2) | 
| The    Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan The 53rd Autumn Meeting | Student Award | WANG Yongxu (M2) | 
| The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan | Excellent Student Award | DOWAKI Taishi (M1) | 
| The Society of Environmental Science, Japan | Best    Presentation Award (Fuji Electric Award) | AMANUMA Eri (D1) | 
| The Heat Island Institute International | Best Poster Award | NEMOTO Mio (D2) | 
| The Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology | Young Groundwater Research Encouragement Award | TAJIMA Satoshi (D1) | 
| The Society of Exploration Geophysicists of Japan | Best Presentation Award | KODAMA Masashi (D2) | 
| Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies | ||
| AsiaHaptics 2022 | Best Demonstration Award Bronze Winner | YOSHIMOTO Shunsuke (LECT) and six other members | 
| The 21st International Conference on Cyberworlds 2022 | Best Paper Award | WARISAWA Shin'Ichi (PROF), BAN Yuki (PL), and another member | 
| Institute for    Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication HUCAPP 2023 | Best Poster Award | SHINO Motoki (AOP), YOSHITAKE Hiroshi (PAP), NISHIMOTO Akio(M2), and three other members | 
| Institute for    Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication HUCAPP 2023 | Best Position Paper Award | SHINO Motoki (AOP), YOSHITAKE Hiroshi (PAP), HARADA Ryunosuke (M2) | 
| The Japanese Council of International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science | Young Investigator Fund Best Paper Award | WANG Haitao (M2) | 
| The Society of Life Support Engineering | Barrier-Free Systems Development Foundation Encouragement Award, Finalist | NIHEI Misato (AOP), NOHARA Taiga (M1), and four other members | 
| All Japan    Confederation of Creativity 2022 The 62nd ACC Tokyo Creativity Awards | Design Award, Finalist | BAN Yuki (PL), and ten other members | 
| Nagamori Foundation | Nagamori Award | YAMAMOTO Akio (PROF) | 
| The Society of    Instrument and Control Engineers | SI2022 Excellent Presentation Award | NIHEI Misato (AOP), SHOGAKI Nanami (M1), and two other members | 
| The Society of    Instrument and Control Engineers | SI2022 Excellent Presentation Award | Warisawa Shin'Ichi (PROF), FUKUI Rui (AOP), EZAKA Rei (M2), YOSHIDA Takehito (D3), and another member | 
| The Society of    Instrument and Control Engineers | SI2022 Excellent Presentation Award | SHINO Motoki (AOP), YOSHITAKE Hiroshi (PAP), HARADA Ryunosuke (M2) | 
| The Society of    Instrument and Control Engineers | SI2022 Excellent Presentation Award | YAMAMOTO Akio (PROF), YOSHIMOTO Shunsuke(LECT), KOJIMA Akira (M1) | 
| The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers | Young Researcher's Award | FUNATO Mitsuki (M2) | 
| The Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan | Graduate Research Encouragement Award | HARADA Ryunosuke (M2) | 
| The Information Processing Society of Japan | FIT Young Researcher Award | NISHIMOTO Akio (M2) | 
| The Information Processing Society of Japan | FIT Encouragement Award | NISHIMOTO Akio (M2) | 
| The Information Processing Society of Japan | FIT Encouragement Award | HARADA Ryunosuke (M2) | 
| The Virtual Reality Society of Japan, Special Interest Group for Haptics | Best Presentation Award | ITO Kenichi (D2) | 
| The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence | Annual Conference Award | OKUDA Hiroshi (PROF) | 
| The Japan    Society for Precision Engineering JSPE 2022 Fall Meeting | Best Presentation Award | YOKOYAMA Kota (D3) | 
| The Ultrasonic Meeting | Young Scientist Award | YOKOYAMA Kota (D3) | 
| The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers | Young Fellow Award | KITAHARA Takehiro (M2) | 
| The Japanese Society for Wellbeing Science and Assistive Technology | Best Paper Award | NIHEI Misato (AOP) and five other members | 
| The Japanese    Society for Medical and Biological Engineering JBMES 2022 | Best Reviewer Award | YOSHIMOTO Shunsuke (LECT) | 
| Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies | ||
| The Acoustical Society of Japan | ASJ 24th Student Presentation Award | HIROSE Ryoko (M2) | 
| The Association of Research Initiatives for Cremation, Funeral and Cemetery Studies | Special Design Award | TOMIDOKORO Takahiro(M1) | 
| The Coastal Engineering Committee, Japan Society of Civil Engineers | Coastal Engineering Paper Award | SASAKI    Jun (Prof), ENDO Masanori (PR), SUN Jing (M2) | 
| The    Ecological Society of Japan ESJ70 | Poster Award | NAKAMURA Wataru (D2) | 
| The    Japan Geoscience Union JpGU 2022 Meeting | Atmospheric    and Hydrospheric Sciences Section Student Presentation Award | NAKAMURA Wataru (D2) | 
| Department of International Studies | ||
| The Japan Society of Civil Engineers | Paper Incentive Award | YAMANE Tatsuro (D3) | 
2022 GSFS Dean's Awards
Student Category: 11 master's course students and 11 doctoral course students received the Dean's Awards.
Master’s Course
| Department of Advanced Material Science | ARAKAWA Keito | 
| Department of Advanced Energy | DEGUCHI Yuya | 
| Department of Complexity Science and Engineering | ISHII Hidemasa | 
| Department of Integrated Biosciences | ITSUKAICHI Mikiko | 
| Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences | HAGA Yasuhiko | 
| Department of Natural Environmental Studies | TOMITA Hirotaka | 
| Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment | MIYASHITA Tomoya | 
| Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies | YAMADA Kyohei | 
| Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies | MATSUI Hirotaka | 
| Department of International Studies | FASSER Christina | 
| Graduate Program in Sustainability Science Global Leadership Initiative | GONZAGA Mark Cel Estopare | 
Doctoral Course
| Department of Advanced Energy | SUMIYA Hayato | 
| Department of Complexity Science and Engineering | FUJISAWA Masahiro | 
| Department of Integrated Biosciences | OGUCHI Kei | 
| Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences | MASUTANI Bansho | 
| Department of Natural Environmental Studies | NAKANISHI Ryo | 
| Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment | YAMAGUCHI Alan Junji | 
| Department of Environment Systems | OCHI Kotaro | 
| Department of Human and Engineered Environmental Studies | CHEN Kang | 
| Department of Socio-Cultural Environmental Studies | LYU Suxing | 
| Department of International Studies | YAMANE Tatsuro | 
| Graduate Program in Sustainability Science Global Leadership Initiative | JIE Su | 
vol.42
- Cover
- What We Can Learn from the Frontier of Evolutionary Biology
- My Dream Is to Create Energy for the Perpetual Survival of Humans
- Interdisciplinary Approach to Molecular and Ecological Sciences to Unravel the Secret of Biodiversity
- Science for Balancing Biodiversity and Human Needs
- GSFS FRONTRUNNERS: Interview with an entrepreneur
- Voices from International Students
- ON CAMPUS x OFF CAMPUS
- EVENTS & TOPICS
- Awards
- INFORMATION
- Relay Essay