【Awards and Commendations】Yuta SHIMIZU (M1) received Modi Memorial Jaya-Jayant Award at 　32nd International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS).

1. Name

Yuta SHIMIZU

2. Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major

1st year of Master’s course of Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering

3. Name of award and short explanation about the award Modi Memorial Jaya-Jayant Award

An honorable award for developing and encouraging students established by the late Prof. V.J. Modi of the University of British Columbia in Canada, who had largely contributed to the student session of ISTS for many years.

4. About awarded research

“Influence of Lossy Compression on Optical Images of Martian Satellites and C-type Asteroids” The study for establishing the method to determine the best compression ratio of high-resolution images in space exploration missions which has the limitation of the transmission rate.

5. Your impression & future plan

Thanks to the great help of the members of my laboratory, I was able to win this prize. I really appreciate their support. I will keep working hard on my research.

【Awards and Commendations】 Hiroaki IGARASHI (M2)  received “Student Incentive Award” at  The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) 33rd Annual Conference 2019. (on 19th July 2019) 1.Name Hiroaki IGARASHI 2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering second-year master’s student 3.Name of award and short explanation about the award The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) 33rd Annual Conference Student Incentive Award (2019) https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai2019/ (Japanese only) 4.About awarded research Title: Construction of Causal Networks for Risk Finding Considering Word Polarities Introduction: We consider the construction of causal networks about social events making use of text data widely present in this society. As a prospect, we aim to identify social events that contribute to changes in the performance of a certain company. 5.Your impression & future plan I am extremely honored to win the prize at JSAI. Without satisfied with this award, I would like to continue my research activities.  

【Awards and Commendations】Yunqian Zhang (D1), Takahashi lab, received Best Student Presentation Award at 16th Japan International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition (JISSE-16) on 3rd Sep. 2019 1. Name: Yunqian Zhang 2. Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major: Department of Systems Innovation, D1 3. Name of award and short explanation about the award: Best Student Presentation Award of 16th Japan International SAMPE Symposium and Exhibition (JISSE-16) 4. About awarded research: Improvement of dynamic mechanical properties of CFRTP sandwich structures 5. Your impression & future plan: It is my great honor to receive this best student presentation award. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to Professor Takahashi for his continuous contributions and kind guidance, as well as to all lab members. I want to take this opportunity to thank them all and share with them the pleasure of receiving this award. With the development of economic and environmental awareness, composite material is attracting more and more attention. I’m preparing myself to become an excellent and social responsible researcher, specifically in innovative composite material industry with the encouragement of this award.