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Five members — first-year master’s students Yusuke Iida, Juan Nishi, Ryota Hosokawa and Izuru Makino and fourth-year undergraduate Haruki Matsunaga — will give presentations at PSC 2026.

Four members — second-year master’s students Shunya Shimoi and Taisei Sekizuka, first-year master’s student Ryota Hosokawa and Assistant Professor Takuma Kuno — will give presentations at ECOC 2026.

First-year master’s student Yusuke Iida received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.

Second-year master’s student Kouki Kidani received the APN 2026 Student Award at the IEICE APN Workshop 2026.

Second-year master’s students Shunya Shimoi and Koki Mano received the IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award.Link: IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award

Koki Kagawa, who graduated from the laboratory in 2025, received the PN Young Researcher’s Award of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

First-year master’s student Shunya Shimoi received the PN Student Encouragement Award of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

First-year master’s student Koki Mano received a Presentation Award of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

Five members — second-year master’s students Hayato Yuasa and Atsuki Wada and first-year master’s students Taisei Sekizuka, Shunya Shimoi and Koki Mano — will give presentations at OFC 2026.Link: OFC 2026

First-year master’s student Koki Mano and fourth-year undergraduate Yusuke Iida will give presentations at SPIE Photonics West.Link: SPIE Photonics West 2026

Second-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa received the Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award of the IEICE Communications Society.

Second-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa and first-year master’s student Shunya Shimoi will give presentations at ECOC 2025.Link: ECOC2025

First-year master’s student Taisei Sekizuka received the Best Paper Award at OECC/PSC 2025.Link: OECC/PSC2025

Second-year master’s student Yudai Hirai and first-year master’s student Taisei Sekizuka gave presentations at OECC/PSC 2025.Link: OECC/PSC2025

First-year master’s student Taisei Sekizuka received the Best Graduation Research Presentation Award at the FY2024 IEICE Tokai Section Graduation Research Presentation.

First-year master’s students Shunya Shimoi and Taisei Sekizuka received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award for FY2024.

Second-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa and first-year master’s student Taisei Sekizuka received the IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award.Link: IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award

Dr. Takuma Kuno was appointed Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University.

Third-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno and second-year master’s student Koki Kagawa received the IEEE Nagoya Section Excellent Student Award.

Fourth-year undergraduate Shunya Shimoi received the Nagoya University President’s Award and the IEICE Tokai Section Academic Excellence Award for FY2024.

First-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa received the PN Young Researcher’s Award of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network, and fourth-year undergraduate Ikuto Inoue received a Presentation Award at the Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: awards IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: the 18th Student Workshop

Fourth-year undergraduates Shunya Shimoi and Taisei Sekizuka and first-year master’s student Atsuki Wada will give presentations at SPIE Photonics West.Link: SPIE Photonics West 2025

Dr. Yojiro Mori has moved to the Toyota Technological Institute and has been appointed Professor there. We are deeply grateful for the many contributions Dr. Mori has made to the laboratory and wish Dr. Mori every success. Dr. Mori remains with the laboratory as a Visiting Professor, and we will continue to work together on research.

Fourth-year undergraduate Taisei Sekizuka, second-year master’s student Koki Kagawa and third-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno will give presentations at the IEEE Photonics Conference.Link: IPC2024

Third-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno gave a presentation at the IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting Series / Photonics in Switching and Computing.Link: PSC2024

First-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa and third-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno will give presentations at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2024

First-year master’s student Hayato Yuasa and second-year master’s student Kazato Satake received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.Link: IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award

Dr. Ryuta Shiraki (Assistant Professor, Kyoto University), a 2023 graduate of the laboratory, received the 6th Nagoya University Okamoto Young Researcher Award.Link: Nagoya University Okamoto Young Researcher Award

Third-year undergraduate Taisei Sekizuka will give a presentation at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.Link: OECC2024

Second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno received the Telecom System Technology Student Award of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation.Link: Telecommunications Advancement Foundation Awards

Fourth-year undergraduate Hayato Yuasa will give a presentation at the International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling.Link: ONDM2024

Third-year undergraduate Taisei Sekizuka received a Presentation Award at the Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: Student Workshop

Second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno received the 4th PN Student Encouragement Award of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: PN Student Encouragement Award 2023

Second-year master’s student Kenji Cruzado received an Excellence Award at the 10th JPN Design Contest of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: The 10th JPN Design Contest

Fourth-year undergraduate Hayato Yuasa received the Best Presentation Award at the FY2023 joint graduation research presentation of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering.

Second-year master’s students Kenji Cruzado and Daisuke Saito and second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno will give presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition.Link: OFC

Second-year master’s student Takuro Ochiai gave a presentation at IEICE RISING and received an Excellent Poster Presentation Award.

Professor Hiroshi Hasegawa gave an invited talk at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2023

Second-year master’s student Takuro Ochiai and second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno gave presentations at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2023

Second-year master’s students Takuro Ochiai and Kenji Cruzado and second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno gave presentations at Photonics in Switching and Computing.Link: PSC2023

Second-year master’s students Yoshiaki Ishikawa and Takuro Ochiai received Student Paper Awards at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress.

Associate Professor Yojiro Mori gave an invited talk at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress.

Second-year master’s students Yoshiaki Ishikawa and Takuro Ochiai were selected as finalists for the Student Paper Award at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress.

Second-year master’s student Takuro Ochiai and second-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno will give presentations at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2023

Professor Hiroshi Hasegawa will give an invited talk at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2023

First-year master’s student Reiji Higuchi and second-year master’s student Kenji Cruzado received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.Link: IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award

Second-year master’s students Yoshiaki Ishikawa and Takuro Ochiai will give presentations at the Optica Advanced Photonics Congress.Link: Optica APC

Fourth-year undergraduate Reiji Higuchi will give a presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe – European Quantum Electronics Virtual Conferences.Link: CLEO®/Europe-EQEC

First-year master’s student Daisuke Saito received an Excellent Presentation Award at the FY2022 interim presentations of master’s theses in the electrical engineering departments. The award was given to the four students of the Department of Information and Communication Engineering who gave the most outstanding presentations.

The following paper, presented at the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network in January 2022, received the 2022 PN Research Award. Title: “Beyond-1-Pb/s-class optical switch using Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexing” (in Japanese). Authors: Takuma Kuno, Takumi Mitsuya, Yojiro Mori, Hiroshi Hasegawa and Ken-ichi Sato.

Second-year master’s student Takeshi Matsuo received an Excellence Award at the 9th JPN Design Contest of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: the 9th JPN Design Contest

Second-year master’s student Ryuji Munakata received the PN Student Encouragement Award 2022 of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

First-year master’s student Takumi Mitsuya received the PN Student Encouragement Award 2022 of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

First-year master’s student Yoshiaki Ishikawa received an Excellent Presentation Award at the Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: Student Workshop

Fourth-year undergraduate Reiji Higuchi received a Presentation Award at the Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: Student Workshop

Third-year doctoral student Ryuta Shiraki gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West.Link: SPIE Photonics West

First-year master’s student Daisuke Saito and second-year master’s student Ryuji Munakata will give presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition.Link: OFC

Third-year doctoral student Ryuta Shiraki will give an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West.Link: SPIE Photonics West

First-year doctoral student Takuma Kuno received an Encouragement Award in an English session of the IEICE General Conference 2022.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Network Systems: English Session Award

Second-year master’s student Ryuji Munakata gave a presentation at the International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modeling and received the Best Student Paper Award.Link: RNDM2022

The research proposal of third-year doctoral student Ryuta Shiraki was selected for JST ACT-X (Strategic Basic Research Programs). Project: “Intelligent photonic networks exploiting ultra-multidimensional information”; period: October 2022 – March 2025; budget (direct costs): 6 million yen; project ID 22714551.Link: JST: new ACT-X research projects and reviewers for FY2022

A paper by third-year doctoral student Ryuta Shiraki was accepted for publication in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.Link: PTL

Third-year doctoral student Ryuta Shiraki and second-year master’s student Naoki Tsuchida gave presentations at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.

First-year master’s students Kenji Cruzado and Takumi Mitsuya will give presentations at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2022

First-year master’s student Takeshi Matsuo received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.Link: IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award

Second-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the IEEE Nagoya Section Excellent Student Award.

First-year master’s student Naoki Tsuchida received the IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award.Link: IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award

First-year master’s student Takeshi Matsuo and second-year master’s student Takuma Kuno gave presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition.Link: OFC

First-year master’s student Ryuji Munakata received an Excellence Award at the 8th JPN Design Contest of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: The 8th JPN Design Contest

Second-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received an Excellence Award at the Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network: Student Workshop

First-year master’s student Naoki Tsuchida gave a presentation at SPIE Photonics West.Link: SPIE Photonics West 2022

Second-year master’s students Yang Wang and Jun Sakano gave presentations at Photonics in Switching and Computing.

Second-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the Harashima Academic Encouragement Award.Link: Hiroshi Harashima Academic Encouragement Award

First-year master’s students Naoki Tsuchida and Takeshi Matsuo will give presentations at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.Link: OECC2021

First-year master’s student Naoki Tsuchida received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.Link: IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award.Link: IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award 2021

Fourth-year undergraduate Naoki Tsuchida will give a presentation at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe – European Quantum Electronics Virtual Conferences.Link: CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno will give a presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition.Link: OFC

First-year master’s student Yang Wang received the PN Student Encouragement Award 2020 of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.

First-year master’s student Jun Sakano received a Presentation Award at the March Student Workshop of the IEICE Technical Committee on Photonic Network.Link: PN Student Workshop

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received an Excellence Award at the 7th JPN Design Contest.Link: The 7th JPN Design Contest

Associate Professor Yojiro Mori gave a tutorial at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2020 tutorials

Second-year master’s students Kazuya Okamura and Eiji Honda will give presentations at the European Conference on Optical Communication.Link: ECOC2020

Second-year master’s student Yang Wang received the Best Student Paper Award at the Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference.Link: OECC2020

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno will give a presentation at the IEEE Photonics Conference.Link: IPC

Professor Hiroshi Hasegawa gave an invited talk, “Fundamentals of Optical Network Optimization,” at the OCS Summer School 2020 on the present state and future of optical network technologies.Link: OCS summer school

Second-year master’s student Eiji Honda and first-year master’s students Yang Wang and Takuma Kuno will give presentations at OECC 2020.Link: OECC2020

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Conference on Photonics.Link: ICP2020

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling.

Second-year master’s student Eiji Honda and first-year master’s student Takuma Kuno received the IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award.Link: IEICE Tokai Section Student Research Encouragement Award

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki received the IEEE Nagoya Section Conference Presentation Award.Link: IEEE Nagoya Section

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki received the Telecom System Technology Student Award of the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation.Link: Telecommunications Advancement Foundation: Telecom System Technology Student Award

First-year master’s student Takuma Kuno will give a presentation at the International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling.

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki received an Encouragement Award at the 6th JPN Design Contest.Link: The 6th JPN Design Contest

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki and first-year master’s student Kazuya Okamura gave presentations at SPIE Photonics West 2020.

Fourth-year undergraduate Takuma Kuno will give a presentation at the IEEE International Conference on Photonics.

Professor Hiroshi Hasegawa gave an invited talk at the 33rd Optical Communication Systems Symposium, organized by the IEICE Technical Committee on Optical Communication Systems.

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki and first-year master’s student Eiji Honda will give presentations at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition.

Assistant Professor Yojiro Mori gave an invited talk at the European Conference on Optical Communication.

Second-year master’s student Ryuta Shiraki gave a presentation at the International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks and received the Best Student Oral Presentation Award.Link: ICTON2019