【Awards and Commendations】Masanori HIRANO (M1) received 1st place of Standard and Collusion Tracks in Supply Chain Management League of the Tenth International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2019)

【Awards and Commendations】Masanori HIRANO (M1) received 1st place of Standard and Collusion Tracks in Supply Chain Management League of the Tenth International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2019) 1.Name Masanori HIRANO 2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering 3.Name of award and short explanation about the award Winners (1st place) of Standard and Collusion Tracks in Supply Chain Management League of the Tenth International Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC 2019) 4.About awarded research This competition aimed to maximize the profits of agents which imitate factories in a supply chain. In this competition, the agents have to negotiate with others to buy materials and sell products and schedule their production automatically. 5.Your impression & future plan This league was held for the first time this year, and I was very honored to win the two tracks. Thank you for the organizers and all the people involved. This competition and league will also be held in the next year, so I try to do my best to win the next league.

【Awards and Commendations】The first place in the 23th Unmanned Solar-Boat Race at Biwa-lake

【Awards and Commendations】The first place in the 23th Unmanned Solar-Boat Race at Biwa-lake   *Name Department of Systems Innovation, School of Engineering Tetsuro Ninomiya Gao Hongxia Xu Guanglei Feng Xuanda Li Jun Wu Hao Shen Gutao Hisaki Matsuda Department of Ocean Technology, Policy, and Environment, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences Yoshiki Maeda Kohei Mikami *Award and explanation The first place in the 23th Unmanned Solar-Boat Race at Biwa-lake Students of Departments of Systems Innovation, and Ocean Technology, Environment, and Policy won the race in which they make an autonomous boat powered by solar cells run for the 20 km-course between Makino Sunny Beach and Chikubu Island. They designed, manufactured, and tested their boat in a course of Department of Systems Innovation or Ocean Technology, Environment, and Policy. *About awarded research Project in the courses of Departments of Systems Innovation and Ocean Technology, Environment and Policy. *Your impression & future plan Hope we have 2020 project. https://solar.shiga-saku.net/

【Awards and Commendations】Bing Xiao(D3) received “SAMPE Japan Scholarship Award”(Best Student Award)

【Awards and Commendations】Bing Xiao(D3) received “SAMPE Japan Scholarship Award”(Best Student Award) 1.Name Bing Xiao 2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major Department of Systems Innovation, D3 3.Name of award and short explanation about the award SAMPE Japan Scholarship Award (Best Student Award: Japan branch of advanced materials technology association selects only one student per year) 4.About awarded research: Improvement of manufacturing methods and mechanical properties of discontinuous carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics aiming to various application expand of recycled carbon fiber 5.Your impression & future plan: I am deeply honored to receive this prestigious award. I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to Professor Takahashi for his continuous contributions and everything, as well as to all laboratory members. With the booming development of artificial intelligence, electrification and sharing economy, innovative material is expected widespread to adapt to modern society and sustainable development. I will keep devoting myself to research activities related to the implementation of innovative composite material that conform to new needs of future society.    

【Awards and Commendations】CAO Jinrong (D2) won “Best Poster” Award of the 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase 2019)

1.Name:CAO Jinrong
2.Faculty/Graduate School, Department (Stream / Program) / Major
School of Engineering, Department of Systems Innovation, D2
3.Name of award and short explanation about the award Best Poster Award of the 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase 2019). It is an award to honor outstanding student poster presentations.
The 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase 2019) http://www2.issjp.com/petrophase2019/index.html 4.About awarded research Poster Title: Molecular Simulation of Methane and Methane/Ethane Mixture Adsorption Behavior in Kerogen Nanopores Authors:Jinrong Cao, Yunfeng Liang, Yoshihiro Masuda, Toshifumi Matsuoka, Kohei Tamura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Sunao Takagi 5.Your impression & future plan
It is a great honor to receive the Best Poster Award in PetroPhase 2019. I will do my best in the future with the encouragement of this award. I would also like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to my supervisors, Masuda-sensei and Liang-sensei, and co-authors.
 1.氏名:曹金栄 2.学部・研究科、学科(類・課程)・専攻等 と 学年 工学系研究科システム創成学専攻博士課程2年生 3.受賞した賞の名称と簡単な説明 Best Poster賞は, The 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase 2019) において、優れた学生ポスター発表を顕彰する賞です。 The 20th International Conference on Petroleum Phase Behavior and Fouling (PetroPhase 2019)
http://www2.issjp.com/petrophase2019/index.html 4.受賞された研究・活動について タイトル: Molecular Simulation of Methane and Methane/Ethane Mixture Adsorption Behavior in Kerogen Nanopores 著者:Jinrong Cao, Yunfeng Liang, Yoshihiro Masuda, Toshifumi Matsuoka, Kohei Tamura, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Sunao Takagi 5.今後の抱負・感想等 今回、PetroPhase 2019という大きな国際会議に採択されるだけでなく、Best Posterの賞までいただけたのは非常に光栄です。様々な分野の研究者の方々が集まる中で、高い評価を頂けたことは大きな自信となりました。今回の結果を励みに今後も研究に邁進していく所存です。 先生達、共同研究者の皆さんとの活発な研究討議なくして、本賞の受賞はありませんでした。この場を借りて謝意を表したいと思います。

Director/Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources (FRCER)/Department of Systems Innovation, received the top prize at the 2018 Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award.

Director/Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources (FRCER)/Department of Systems Innovation, received the top prize at the 2018 Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award. Director/Professor Yasuhiro Kato, Frontier Research Center for Energy and Resources (FRCER)/Department of Systems Innovation, received the top prize at the 2018 Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award, which is presented by Nikkei Inc., on October 31, 2018. This award is provided to excellent research achievements that will establish the sustainability of global environment by technologies targeting climate changes, renewable energies and energy conservation, material recycle, environment and ecosystem conservation, etc., from the perspectives of uniqueness, future prospects, and feasibility. < Reasons for winning the Award > “REY-rich mud around Minamitorishima Island – an innovative resource development system –” Director/Professor Yasuhiro Kato and his research group discovered deep-sea mud with very high concentrations of rare-earth elements and yttrium (REY) in the Japanese exclusive economic zone around Minamitorishima Island, the easternmost island of Japan, in 2013. The REY are indispensable for various high-tech products, and the “REY-rich mud” has been expected as a novel and promising mineral resource. They demonstrated that the most promising area of 2,500 km2 contains more than 16 million tons of REY resource (as oxides), which accounts for several hundreds of years of global annual demand for REY. Moreover, they established a mineral separation technique to collect REY-concentrating minerals effectively. They aim to realize a commercial development of the mud in 2020’s. In striking contrast to on-land REY deposits, the REY-rich mud does not almost contain radioactive elements and thus constitutes a new and clean resource for REY. By utilizing the critical elements such as heavy rare-earth elements and scandium that are contained in the REY-rich mud at high concentrations, the REY-rich mud as a domestic mineral resource will strongly encourage Japanese industries through new developments of environment-friendly technologies and highly advanced materials. The achievements of Prof. Kato and his team are expected to contribute to solving global environmental issues.

Prof. Nishibayashi received Prize for Science and Technology.

On April 17, 2018, Professor Yoshiaki Nishibayashi received Prize for Science and Technology (Research Category) in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2018. Development of catalytic nitrogen fixation using transition metal–dinitrogen complexes

Hitomi Yanaka received Young Researcher Awards in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing.

Hitomi Yanaka (3rd year student of doctoral course at this department (at that time)) received Young Researcher Awards in the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Natural Language Processing (http://www.anlp.jp/nlp2018/ (Japanese only)). Phrase alignments via natural deduction proofs of semantic relations between sentence pairs I am delighted to be chosen for this award.I greatly appreciate the support of my team members and family.