Kato Kawamoto Laboratory, Tohoku University, Japan

The graduation ceremony of Tohoku University was held on Mar. 26, 2024. Hiroaki Hashida (D3) was awarded the Presidential Award for Outstanding Students. The award was established in 2010 to recognize the recipient of the JSPS Ikushi Prize. Guo Qi (D3) was awarded President’s Award of Tohoku University, and Ryuhei Hibi (M2) was awarded the Dean Award of the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. These awards are selected from 150 students of the GSIS doctor and master courses. The President’s Award is given to 2 students and the Dean Award is given to 4 students.

Hashida (D3) made a presentation entitled “Near- / Far- Field Behaviors of Intelligent Reflecting Surface” and Iwamoto (M1) made a presentation entitled “Analysis of Spectral Efficiency of IRS Beam Sweeping with Dedicated Frequencies” at The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers General Conference that was held in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, Mar. 2024. 

Assistant Prof. Tiago, Research Assistant Prof. Shikhar, Hashida (D3), Ibrahim (D1), Tanaka (M2), Hibi (M2), Norranat (M1), Mashiko (B4), Iizuka (B4), Tanabu (B4), Oshima (B4) and Hinohara (B4) made presentations, and Ibrahim (D1) and Oshima (B4) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the A3 Foresight Program 2024 Workshop was held on 19-21 February 2024 in Naha, Okinawa.

Kato (M1) made a presentation entitled “A Study on Link Selection between Crossing Orbits Based on Pointing Error Probability in Optical Inter-Satellite Communications” and Mashiko (B4) made a presentation entitled “An Energy-Efficient Design of HAPS-based Non-Terrestrial Network through Transmission Power Control of FSO/RF Links” at Technical committee on Satellite Communications that was held in Atami, Kagoshima, Jun. 2023.