Honors and Awards

Jul. 19th, 2024 NEC GIBU Award for Multiple Patent Registrations

NEC's internal award for registering 10 patents during the 2023 fiscal year.

2022 NEC Innovators 100

Recognized as one of the top innovators among researchers in NEC Central Research Laboratories.

Oct. 1st, 2020 IJCB 2020 Google Best Paper Award

Awarded for the paper "Specular- and Diffuse-reflection-based Face Spoofing Detection for Mobile Devices."

Mar. 31st, 2020 NEC Central Research Laboratories Best Invention Award 2020

Awarded for the invention of the SPRT-TANDEM algorithm and the associated patents.

Nov. 21st, 2018 Bio-X incentive award

Awarded for the oral presentation “Flash Reflection-based Face Liveness Detection for Mobile Devices” at IEICE SBRA 2018.

Apr. 12th, 2015 JMSA New York Life Science Forum 2015 Best Presentation Award

Awarded for the oral presentation "A circuit mechanism for explicit multi-stimulus coding" at Japanese Medical Society of America (JMSA) 2015.

2008~2010 Murata Overseas Scholarship Foundation, 39th-year scholarship awardee

Awarded a 2-year financial scholarship supporting living expenses, travel expenses, and tuition (if applicable) during the Ph.D. program.

March 23, 2007 Dean Prize for the contribution to Overseas Visit Program

Being one of 10 representatives of School of Science, The University of Tokyo to visit Harvard University and MIT.