Kato Laboratory, Tohoku University, Japan

“Efficient Coverage Area Control in Hybrid FSO/RF Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks” presented by Mashiko (M1) at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2024) was received the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award. This award is granted to brilliant young researchers by IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter.

Sekimori (M2) made a presentation entitled “Frequency Prism-based Beamforming and Resource Allocation in LEO Satellite Networks with Delay Adjustable IRS” and received the Best Paper Award at IEEE 2025 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), that was held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 2025.

Research Asst. Prof. Guo Qi was awarded RIEC Tohoku University Student Award, which is created by the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University. This prize is given to honor promising and excellent graduate students, who are expected to make remarkable contributions to the scientific study in the field of electrical communication in the coming future.

Hinohara (M1) made a presentation entitled “Frequency Selection of Coordinated-OFDMA Considering Channel Availability for Non-coordinated APs in Multi-AP Coordination Environment”, Kuwahara (B4) made a presentation entitled “Experiments and Evaluations of Beamsquint Occurrence on Intelligent Reflecting Surface at 28 GHz”, Takemura (B4) made a presentation entitled “Partitioning Control Experiments of Intelligent Reflecting Surface at 28GHz” and Hinohara (M1) received the Excellent Presentation Award at Technical Committee on Radio Communication Systems, that was held in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi in Jan. 2025.