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IEICE Communications Society ComEX Best Letter Award 2025

Prof. Jiro Hirokawa, Riki Yanagisawa (M.S. 2023), and Assoc. Prof. Takashi Tomura received the IEICE Communications Society ComEX Best Letter Award 2025.

[Achievement]

IEICE Communications Society ComEX Best Letter Award 2025

Paper title:
Jiro Hirokawa, Riki Yanagisawa, Takashi Tomura, and Issei Watanabe, "Vertically polarized omnidirectional reflector antenna fed by a circular waveguide bent TM01 mode converter for the 150 GHz band," IEICE Commun. Express, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 218-221, June 2025.

2026/5/15

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Science and Technology (Research Category), FY2026

Prof. Jiro Hirokawa received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Science and Technology (Research Category) for FY2026.

https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/mext_01620.html

[Achievement]

Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Science and Technology (Research Category), FY2026

Research on High-Efficiency Parallel-Plate Slot Array Antennas for Satellite Applications

2026/4/15

TJMW2025 Young Researcher Encouragement Award

Renshi Funabiki (M2) received the TJMW2025 Young Researcher Encouragement Award.

https://www.ieice.org/~mw/TJMW2025/

[Achievement]

TJMW2025 Young Researcher Encouragement Award

Paper title:
Renshi Funabiki, Jiro Hirokawa, and Takashi Tomura, "Design of a Super-elliptical Cross-section Waveguide Bend Mode Converter for Dual-polarized Horizontally Omni-directional Antennas," Thailand-Japan Microw. & Asian Wirel. Power Transfer Workshop, M105, Oct. 2025.

2025/10/17

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — 7th Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

Taiga Sugimoto (M1) was selected as an Outstanding Poster Presenter at the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 7th Student-Industry Exchange Event.

URL:
https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/event/student_industria/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 7th Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

2025/09/18

2023 IEEE AP-S Japan Young Engineer Award

Yoshihiko Akamine (D3) received the 2023 IEEE AP-S Japan Young Engineer Award.

URL: https://r10.ieee.org/tokyo-aps/awards2023-winners/

[Achievement]

2023 IEEE AP-S Japan Young Engineer Award

Paper title:
Yoshihiko Akamine, Takashi Tomura and Jiro Hirokawa, "Single-cut Scattered Field Transformation Applicable for Differences in the Radar Ranges of Transmitter and Receiver," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 71, No. 6, pp. 5310-5321, June 2023.

2024/02/21

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2022

Yuki Takeda received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the second half of FY2022.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/tcap/ap_awards/shimoki2022/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2022

2023/06/15

2022 IEEE AP-S Japan Young Student Award

Ji Shuang received the 2022 IEEE AP-S Japan Young Student Award.

URL: https://ewh.ieee.org/r10/tokyo/aps/jp/index.php?2022yea-spa-happyo

[Achievement]

2022 IEEE AP-S Japan Student Award

Paper titles:
Fast analysis and bandwidth enhancement of the radiating subarray by method of moments for a parallel-plate slot array antenna with perpendicular-corporate feed
A Wideband and High-Gain All-Metallic Perpendicular-Corporate-Fed Multi-Layered Parallel-Plate Slot Array Antenna

2022/12/16

2022 IEEE MTT-S Japan Young Engineer Award

Takashi Tomura (Assistant Professor) received the 2022 IEEE MTT-S Japan Young Engineer Award.

URL: https://www.ieee-jp.org/section/tokyo/chapter/MTT-17/award/YEA_past_awardees

[Achievement]

2022 IEEE MTT-S Japan Young Engineer Award

Paper title:
Anisotropic Conductivity Measurements by Two Kinds of Multimode Rectangular Plate-Laminated Cavities

2022/12/1

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — 4th Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

Rikako Yamaguchi (M1) was selected as an Outstanding Poster Presenter at the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 4th Student-Industry Exchange Event.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/event/student_industria/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 4th Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

2022/10/18

Lab Research Featured on Tokyo Tech News

Prof. Jiro Hirokawa proposed a minimum-layer configuration for matrices forming an arbitrary number of orthogonal antenna beams.

URL: https://www.titech.ac.jp/news/2021/061882

2021/09/27

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — 3rd Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

Yuki Takeda (M1) was selected as an Outstanding Poster Presenter at the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 3rd Student-Industry Exchange Event.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/event/student_industria/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 3rd Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

2021/10/08

Lab Research Featured on Tokyo Tech News

The lab contributed to a joint development effort that successfully acquired images from Japan's first private small SAR satellite (100 kg class).

URL: https://www.titech.ac.jp/news/2021/049222.html

2021/03/09

ISAP 2020 Student Paper Award

Ji Shuang (D2) received the Student Paper Award at ISAP 2020.

URL: http://www.isap2020.org/files2/BPA_SPA_Award_ceremony.pdf

[Achievement]
ISAP 2020 Student Paper Award

Paper title:
Efficient Optimization for Bandwidth of the Element of a Multilayer Parallel-plate Slot Array

2021/01/28

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — 2nd Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

Yuta Ishikawa (M1) was selected as an Outstanding Poster Presenter at the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 2nd Student-Industry Exchange Event.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/event/student_industria/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee 2nd Student-Industry Exchange Event — Outstanding Poster Presenter

2020/09/25

IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Service Award

Takashi Tomura (Assistant Professor) received the IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Service Award.

https://www.ieice.org/cs/jpn/aboutcs/award.html#kourou2020

[Achievement]

IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Service Award

2020/09/16

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2019

Keisuke Ejiri received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the second half of FY2019.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/tcap/ap_awards/shimoki2019/

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2019

2020/06/18

IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Contribution Award

Prof. Jiro Hirokawa received the IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Contribution Award.

https://www.ieice.org/cs/jpn/aboutcs/award.html#kensho2019

[Achievement]

IEICE Communications Society Distinguished Contribution Award

2019/09

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Distinguished Service Award, Second Half of FY2018

Prof. Jiro Hirokawa received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award for the second half of FY2018.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/~ap_ac/jpn/index.php?hyosho%2Fshimoki2018

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award, Second Half of FY2018

2019/06/20

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Young Researcher Encouragement Award

Takashi Tomura (Assistant Professor) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Young Researcher Encouragement Award.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/kamiki2018

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Young Researcher Encouragement Award

2018/12/13

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2017

Ryotaro Ohashi (M2) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the second half of FY2017.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/shimoki2017

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2017

Paper title: Design of a 16x16-element Monopulse Parallel-fed Waveguide Slot Array Antenna for 2D Orthogonal Multiplexing Transmission in Cartesian Coordinates

2018/6/21

IEICE Kian Yoshiichi Award 2017

Xin Xu (D3) received the IEICE Kian Yoshiichi Award 2017.

http://www.ieice.org/jpn/awards/awards29j.html

[Achievement]

IEICE Kian Yoshiichi Award 2017

"Plate-Laminated Waveguide Monopulse Slot Array Antenna with Full-Corporate-Feed in the E-Band"

2018/7

IEICE Society Conference 2017 — Electronics Society Student Encouragement Award

Tatsuya Nagayama (M2) received the IEICE Society Conference 2017 Electronics Society Student Encouragement Award.

http://www.ieice.org/es/jpn/award/student.php

[Achievement]

IEICE Society Conference 2017 Electronics Society Student Encouragement Award

2018/3

IEICE Smart Radio Technical Committee — Research Encouragement Award FY2017

Tomohide Nagamine (M2) received the IEICE Smart Radio Technical Committee Research Encouragement Award for FY2017.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/sr/jpn/...

[Achievement]

IEICE Smart Radio Technical Committee Research Encouragement Award FY2017

2018/3/2

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, First Half of FY2017

Haruka Arakawa (M1) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the first half of FY2017.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/kamiki2017

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, First Half of FY2017

2017/12/4

2017 Asian Workshop on Antennas and Propagation (AWAP) — Young Scientist Award

Tatsuya Nagayama (M2) received the Young Scientist Award at the 2017 Asian Workshop on Antennas and Propagation (AWAP).

[Achievement]

2017 Asian Workshop on Antennas and Propagation (AWAP) Young Scientist Award
Paper title: "60 GHz-Band Antenna Beam Forming by Radio-over-Fiber with Variable Delay Line"

2017/6/29

The 2017 Malaysia-Japan Workshop on Radio Technology (MJWRT2017) — Student Paper Award

Dan Mohri (M2) and Do Thanh Phan (M2) received Student Paper Awards at the 2017 Malaysia-Japan Workshop on Radio Technology (MJWRT2017).

[Achievement]

The 2017 Malaysia-Japan Workshop on Radio Technology (MJWRT2017) Student Paper Award

Paper titles:

Thanh Phan Do, "Estimation of interference between antennas in short range communication using Signal Flow Graph"

Dan Mohri, "Design of the Field Distribution of an Antenna Aperture using Gaussian Mode Expansion in order to generate the Uniform Field Intensity in the Non-far Region"

2017/1/26,27

IEICE Tokyo Section Student Conference — 22nd Research Presentation — Tokyo Section Student Encouragement Award

Haruka Arakawa (B4) received the IEICE Tokyo Section Student Encouragement Award at the research presentation of the IEICE Tokyo Section Student Chapter.

[Achievement]

IEICE Tokyo Section Student Encouragement Award
Paper title: E-plane Sidelobe Suppression by Adding a Slit Layer to a Parallel-fed Waveguide Slot Array Antenna with a 2x2-element Radiating Unit

2017/3/4

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2016

Taihei Fujino (M2) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the second half of FY2016.

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2016

2017/6/8

Retirement Commemoration Lecture & Party for Prof. Ando

The retirement lecture and farewell party for Prof. Ando were held.

2017/4/14

Retirement

Prof. Makoto Ando retired at the end of March 2017.

2017/3/31

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Young Researcher Encouragement Award

Donghun Kim (D3) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Young Researcher Encouragement Award for the first half of FY2016.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/kamiki2016

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Young Researcher Encouragement Award, First Half of FY2016
Paper title: Evaluation of 16x16-way One-body 2-D Beam-switching Butler Matrix

2016/12/8

ISAP 2016 Student Paper Award

Xu Xin (D3) and Taihei Fujino (M2) received Student Paper Awards at ISAP 2016.

[Achievement]

ISAP 2016, Student Paper Award, October 28, 2016.

Xin Xu
"An E-band Slotted Waveguide Monopulse Array Antenna with Corporate-feed Using Diffusion Bonding of Laminated Plates"

Taihei Fujino
"Design and Fabrication of a Dual-polarized Corporate-feed Waveguide 32x32-slot Array Antenna with an Orthmode Transducer for 40 GHz Band"

2016/10/28

OECC/PS 2016 Best Paper Award

Kotoko Furuya (M2) received the Best Paper Award at OECC/PS 2016.

[Achievement]

OECC/PS 2016, Best Paper Award, July 7, 2016.

"3.5-Gbit/s QPSK Signal Transmission in Beam Forming of 60-GHz Integrated Photonic Array-Antenna"

2016/7/7

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2015

Thanh Phan Do (M2) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the second half of FY2015.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/shimoki2015

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, Second Half of FY2015
Paper title: Signal Transfer function for Short Range Wireless Communication with Multiple Reflection between Tx and Rx Antennas

2016/6/9

IEICE Transactions Paper Award

Tung Nguyen received the IEICE Transactions Paper Award for FY2016.

URL: https://www.ieice.org/jpn/about/rekidai/ronbunshou.html

[Achievement]

IEICE Transactions Paper Award FY2016
Paper title: "Design of mm-Wave RLSAs with Lossy Waveguides by Slot Coupling Control Techniques"

2016/6/2

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee — Student Encouragement Award, First Half of FY2015

Koji Toyosaki (M2) received the IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award for the first half of FY2015.

http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/jpn/index.php?hyosho/kamiki2015

[Achievement]

IEICE Antennas and Propagation Technical Committee Student Encouragement Award, First Half of FY2015
Paper title: Study on Communication Area of a Millimeter-wave Band Compact Range Wireless System Using Large-Scale Arrays

2015/12/10

iWEM 2015 Student Third Best Paper Award

Hijiri Suetsugu (M2) received the Student Third Best Paper Award at iWEM 2015.

[Achievement]

iWEM 2015, Student Third Best Paper Award, November 17, 2015.

"Design of a 45-degree Linearly-polarized Slot Array Fed by a Coaxial Line in the Millimeter-wave Band"

2015/11/17

iWEM 2015 Student Best Paper Finalist Award

Yuki Iida (M2) received the Student Best Paper Finalist Award at iWEM 2015.

[Achievement]

iWEM 2015, Student Best Paper Finalist Award, November 17, 2015.

"Gain Measurement of a Patch Antenna Using S-parameters with Different Distances"

2015/11/17

Promotion to Professor

Jiro Hirokawa was promoted to Professor from April 2015.

2015/04/01

Appointment as Director and Vice President

Prof. Makoto Ando was appointed as Director and Vice President of Tokyo Institute of Technology from April 2015.

2015/04/01

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