March 7, 2022
Takuma Oshiro, a second-year master's student in the Graduate School of Media and Governance and a member of Professor Tatsuya Hagino's laboratory at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, has received the 2021 Yamashita SIG Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ).
The Yamashita SIG Research Award is presented to particularly outstanding papers from among those presented at research group meetings and symposia sponsored by the IPSJ. In fiscal year 2021, the award was given to a total of 54 excellent papers recommended by 40 research groups. The award ceremony was held during the 84th National Convention of the IPSJ on March 3, which took place in a hybrid format (including online) at Ehime University.
Mr. Oshiro's paper, "Speeding up PARADIS with an Adaptive Partitioning Method," was recognized for demonstrating a state-of-the-art technological advancement in sorting technology, which is used in various applications, including data science.
Comment from Takuma Oshiro
I am truly honored to receive the 2021 Yamashita SIG Research Award. This research focuses on accelerating parallel sort, one of the key algorithms for efficiently handling large amounts of data. Looking back on my research activities, I feel that there were many times when I struggled and things did not go as planned, such as not obtaining the expected experimental results or having papers rejected by peer review. I was feeling stuck at the time I received the notification of the award, so it was a great encouragement. I was able to continue my research activities, including receiving this award, thanks to the support of many people. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude.
Posted by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office