Keio University

2022 Awards for Research Activities

This page lists awards received by Keio University faculty and staff for their research activities.

*Affiliations and titles are as of the time of the award.

Awardee

Award Name, Reason for Award, Awarding Body

Award Date

Faculty of Economics

Professor Yoshifumi Konishi

Recipient of the "2022 Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (SEEPS) Outstanding Publication Award"

Reason for Award: For accumulating research with significant policy implications for environmental policy based on high-quality economic theoretical and empirical analysis.

Awarding Body: Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies

2022/10/02

Computer Security Incident Response Team

Assistant Professor Yoshiro Kondo, et al.

Recipient of the "7th Shigeo Tsujii Security Paper Award, Special Award"

Reason for Award: For the academic paper "Proposal and Evaluation of an Autonomously Evolving Defense System Using Connection Tendencies of Multiple Organizations"

Awarding Body: Japan Society of Security Management

2022/10/06

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Assistant Professor Masaki Mori, et al.

Recipient of the "14th Visual Illusion and Auditory Illusion Contest 2022"

Reason for Award: For the "Crab Walk Illusion" being an excellent illusion work in terms of both academic and expressive aspects.

Awarding Body: 14th Visual Illusion and Auditory Illusion Contest Judging Committee

2022/12/03

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Naoki Yamamoto

Recipient of the "37th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Award"

Reason for Award: For research on "Construction and Application of Chiral Kinetic Theory"

Awarding Body: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture

2022/12/03

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Issei Fujishiro

Recipient of the "6th Hakura Award"

Reason for Award: For the development of a personal naked-eye stereoscopic vision system based on the principles of anamorphosis and the Cyclopean eye.

Awarding Body: Association for Promotion of State-of-the-art Expression Technology

2022/11/18

Faculty of Science and Technology

Assistant Professor Aya Koike, et al.

Recipient of the "19th International Machine Tool Engineers' Conference (IMEC2022) Best Poster Award"

Reason for Award: For the poster presentation "Development of Ultra-High Performance Metal 3D Printer by Utilizing High Gravity Field"

Awarding Body: Japan Machine Tool Builders' Association

2022/11/10

Law School

Professor Hiroshi Matsuo

Recipient of the "7th Society Award (Article Award)"

Reason for Award: For the article "The 2021 Civil Code Amendment Regarding Land of Unknown Ownership and Its Impact on Inheritance Practice"

Awarding Body: Japan Inheritance Society

2022/10/22

Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor Naoya Kumagai

Recipient of the "Mukaiyama Award"

Reason for Award: The development of synthetic methodologies driven by cooperative catalysts, unique heterocycles, and quinoline oligomers.

Awarding Body: The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan

2022/11/01

Faculty of Business and Commerce

Professor Akinori Ono, et al.

Recipient of the "2022 ICAMA Best Paper Award (Marketing Mix Category)"

Reason for Award: For the academic paper "Celebrity endorsement, gesture, and regulatory focus"

Awarding Body: ICAMA (International Conference of Asian Marketing Associations)

2022/10/28

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Tohru Yamada

Recipient of the "4th JEMEA Society Award"

Reason for Award: For the achievement of "Experimental Verification of Microwave Specific Effects in Organic Synthetic Chemical Reactions"

Awarding Body: Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications

2022/10/13

Faculty of Letters

Assistant Professor Mizuki Taguchi

Recipient of the "Japanese Society for Comparative Immunology Furuta Outstanding Paper Award"

Reason for Award: For the paper "Galactose-Binding C-Type Lectin Promotes Cellular Aggregation of Coelomocytes in Sea Cucumber"

Awarding Body: Japanese Society for Comparative Immunology

2022/08/27

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Daisuke Takahashi

Recipient of the "2022 Oleomaterial Award"

Reason for Award: For "Efficient Total Synthesis and Structure-Function Relationship Study of Mannosylerythritol Lipids"

Awarding Body: Japan Oil Chemists' Society, Oleomaterial Division

2022/08/24

Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor Haruhisa Kikuchi

Recipient of the "2022 Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy Academic Contribution Award"

Reason for Award: For "Development of a Method for Creating Structurally Diverse Compounds by Combining Natural Resource Exploration and Diversity-Oriented Synthesis"

Awarding Body: The Japanese Society of Pharmacognosy

2022/09/10

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Seiichiro Katsura

Recipient of the "Best Paper Award of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI2022"

Reason for Award: For the paper "Servo Control of Finger MP Joint by Functional Electrical Stimulation of Lumbrical and Extensor Digitorum Muscle"

Awarding Body: the 15th IEEE International Conference on Human System Interaction, HSI2022

2022/07/30

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Mayu Muramatsu

Recipient of the "2022 APACM Young Investigator Award"

Reason for Award: For being recognized as a young researcher who has achieved outstanding results in computational mechanics.

Awarding Body: Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics

2022/08/01

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Associate Professor Patrick Savage

Recipient of the "Young Investigator Award"

Reason for Award: For outstanding research in music perception and cognition, student supervision, and promotion of DE&I (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion).

Awarding Body: Japanese Society for Music Perception and Cognition

2022/08/04

Awardee

Award Name, Reason for Award, Awarding Body

Date of Award

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Midori Arai

Recipient of the "19th JSBBA Award for Agricultural Chemistry Research Planning"

Reason: For "Development of novel tau-degrading molecular glues from artificial natural product extracts using the protein bead method"

Awarding Body: Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (JSBBA)

2022/03/08

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Tohru Yamada

Recipient of the "FY2021 SSOCJ Award (Academic)"

Reason: For the achievement of "Development of catalytic precision organic synthesis reactions aimed at the utilization of carbon dioxide as a resource"

Awarding Body: The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan (SSOCJ)

2022/02/16

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Issei Fujishiro, et al.

Recipient of the "20th IIEEJ Excellent Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "Cyclops's Eye: Sharpening Anamorphosis for Autostereoscopic Video Generation Using Orthogonally Arranged Multi-displays" published in the journal Vol. 50, No. 4, 2021

Awarding Body: The Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan (IIEEJ)

2022/06/24

Faculty of Science and Technology

Senior Lecturer Yuki Hiruta

Recipient of the "Best Poster Award HPLC 2022"

Reason: For "Eggshell-based Packing Materials for HPLC"

Awarding Body: The board of expert reviewers in HPLC 2022

2022/06/23

Faculty of Letters

Professor Emeritus Masataka Suzuki

Recipient of the "14th Showa Women's University Women's Culture Research Award (Mariko Bando Fund)"

Reason: In the book "Anthropology of Nyonin Kinsei (Exclusion of Women): Sumo, Impurity, and Gender," he examined the exclusion of women historically and empirically, and made proposals to encourage dialogue and discussion beyond the dichotomy of discrimination versus tradition.

Awarding Body: Institute of Women's Culture, Showa Women's University

2022/05/31

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Yukitoshi Sanada, et al.

Recipient of the "Best Paper Award"

Reason: For the paper "Miniaturization and Test Results of a Shared Antenna for Shinkansen Overhead Line Voltage Detection and Wireless Communication"

Awarding Body: The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)

2022/06/09

Graduate School of Media and Governance

Professor Rajib Shaw

Recipient of the "2022 United Nations Sasakawa Award"

Reason: Recognized for efforts in multi-hazard community-based disaster risk reduction in various Asian countries and for realizing the establishment of village-level community-based working groups.

Awarding Body: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

2022/05/26

Faculty of Science and Technology

Senior Lecturer Yuka Fukui

Recipient of the "FY2021 Polymer Journal Award - Zeon Award"

Reason: For the evaluation of the paper "Development of biomass polymer microparticle preparation technology using nano-sized water droplets as reaction fields"

Awarding Body: The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (SPSJ)

2022/05/26

Faculty of Pharmacy

Professor Sayo Suzuki

Recipient of the "FY2021 Japanese Association for Pharmaceutical Education Research Incentive Award"

Reason: For research on improving the learning effects of clinical practice based on a metacognitive approach and fostering professionalism in pharmacy students

Awarding Body: Japanese Association for Pharmaceutical Education

2022/05/11

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Kenjiro Takemura

Recipient of the "JSME Machine Design and Tribology Division Achievement Award"

Reason: For making significant contributions to the development of mechanical engineering and industry through academic research, technological development, and the promotion of pioneering research in the field of machine design and tribology.

Awarding Body: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), Machine Design and Tribology Division

2022/05/01

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Tsuyoshi Yokomori,

Professor Emeritus Norimasa Iida, et al.

Recipient of the "FY2021 JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper"

Reason: For the paper "Thermal efficiency improvement of super-lean burn spark ignition engine by stratified water insulation on piston top surface"

Awarding Body: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)

2022/04/21

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Yasuhiro Kakinuma, et al.

Recipient of the "FY2021 JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper"

Reason: For the paper "Intelligent process planning and control of DED (directed energy deposition) for rapid manufacturing"

Awarding Body: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)

2022/04/21

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Kazuyuki Shizawa

Recipient of the "FY2022 Tokyo/South Kanto Branch Award (Contribution Award)"

Reason: For the development of multi-scale crystal plasticity analysis methods and contributions to academic society activities

Awarding Body: The Japan Society for Technology of Plasticity (JSTP)

2022/04/08

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Mayu Muramatsu

Recipient of the "FY2022 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists' Award"

Reason: For establishing an electrochemical-mechanical analysis theory considering chemical strain and being the first in the world to develop an analysis tool capable of evaluating mechanical behavior and predicting material microstructure changes during SOFC operation.

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

2022/04/20

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Associate Professor Patrick Savage

Recipient of the "FY2022 Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: The Young Scientists' Award"

Reason: For scientific research on diversity in world music

Awarding Body: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

2022/04/20

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Yasuaki Einaga

Recipient of the "2022 ECSJ Scientific Award"

Reason: For the achievement of creation and functional development of diamond electrodes

Awarding Body: The Electrochemical Society of Japan (ECSJ)

2022/03/16

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Daniel Citterio

Recipient of the "FY2021 (39th) CSJ Award for Creative Work"

Reason: For "Development of functional dyes and paper-based analytical devices for chemical and biochemical sensing"

Awarding Body: The Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ)

2022/03/24

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Fumihiko Kannari

Recipient of the "23rd Optical and Quantum Electronics Achievement Award (Hiroshi Takuma Award)"

Reason: For the development of new optical measurement methods using femtosecond Fourier optics

Awarding Body: The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP)

2022/03/22

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Yasutomo Ota

Recipient of the "Marubun Academic Award"

Reason: For improving the quality and realizing the functions of nanophotonic structures with quantum dots

Awarding Body: Marubun Research Promotion Foundation

2022/03/04

Graduate School of Media Design (KMD)

Professor Hideki Sunahara

Recipient of the "18th Information Security Culture Award"

Reason: For making significant contributions to the development of security human resources and the production of core personnel in the security field in industry and universities.

Awarding Body: Institute of Information Security

2022/03/04

Faculty of Science and Technology

Associate Professor Yuta Sugiura

Recipient of the "2022 IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contributions to Global Research"

Reason: Recognized for achieving outstanding results in the field of informatics and for international activities.

Awarding Body: Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

2022/03/03

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Associate Professor Patrick Savage

Recipient of the "APS Rising Stars Award"

Reason: Evaluated as an outstanding early-career member of the society who has achieved results in the research field and is expected to continue doing so in the future.

Awarding Body: Association for Psychological Science

2022/02/23

Faculty of Business and Commerce

Senior Lecturer Shumpei Iwao

Recipient of the "4th Hyogensha Award"

Reason: Awarded for the contributed essay "Introduction to Literary Management: Correcting the Error of the Conflict Between Literature and Management"

Awarding Body: Journal "Hyogensha Criterion"

2022/02/16

Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Associate Professor Hideyuki Kawashima, et al.

Recipient of the "Best Paper Award – 2nd Place"

Reason: For the excellence of the research content "Accelerating Concurrency Control with Active Thread Adjustment" presented at the international conference IEEE BigComp

Awarding Body: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (IEEE BigComp)

2022/02/04

Faculty of Science and Technology

Professor Seiichiro Katsura (Katsura Laboratory)

Recipient of the "IIFES 2022 University/Technical College Technical Academy Research Presentation Contest Grand Prize"

Reason: For the evaluation of the "Bilateral AI" exhibition

Awarding Body: IIFES Executive Committee, The Japan Electrical Manufacturers' Association (JEMA), Nippon Electric Control Equipment Industries Association (NECA), Japan Electric Measuring Instruments Manufacturers' Association (JEMIMA)

2022/01/28