Kato Laboratory, Tohoku University, Japan

Associate Professor Kawamoto transferred to Professor of Graduate School of Information Sciences, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Software Science and Systems, Firmware Sciences on November 1st as professor. He will continue to work with this field as a research collaborator.

Asst. Prof. Hashida made a presentation entitled “Optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Dimensions Under Partial Blockages” and Hibi (D1) made a presentation entitled “Hierarchical Exploration and Machine Learning With Exploration Results for Autonomous Control of Standalone-Intelligent Reflecting Surface” and Asst. Prof. Hashida received the Best Paper Award at The 24th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2024), that was held in Denarau Island, Fiji, Dec. 2024.

Zhu Yishi (D3), standing out from the competition, has been granted “the 2023 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad” by China Scholarship Council. This award, starting in 2003, was founded by the Chinese government with the purpose of rewarding the academic excellence of self-financed Chinese students studying overseas. Only those with outstanding performance in their PhD studies or post-doctoral research will be considered by the award selection panel and no more than 650 young talents will be granted the award each year all over the world. Prof. Kato received a letter of appreciation from Secretary-General, China Scholarship Council.

Prof. Kato was selected as one of Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024 in the field of Computer Science for the sixth consecutive year.