Ishikawa Oku Laboratory

Awards

Medal of Honour (Domestic) (1)

2011

Medal with Purple Ribbon, Japanese Government (Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Awards from Academic Society (Domestic) (12)

	2013	Award for Encouragement of Research, the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology (Masahiro Yamada, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2011	Best Paper Award, the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (Yoshihiro Watanabe, Alvaro Cassinelli, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2010	Best Paper Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Hiromasa Oku, Takahiko Ishikawa, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2010	Best Paper Award, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Takaaki Nishino, Makoto Shimojo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2008	Best Paper Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2005	Major Contribution Award in integration of opto-electronics, the Society of Applied Physics in Japan (Izuo Hayashi Award) (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2004	Best Technique Award, Tomoda Award, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Masatoshi Ishikawa, Takashi Komuro, Idaku Ishii, Atsushi Yoshida, Yoshiaki Inada, and Yasuhiro Komiya)
	2004	Best Development Award, the the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (Intelligent Vision System Development Group [Hamamatsu Photonics, RIKEN, the University of Tokyo, Haruyoshi Toyoda, Yoshihiro Nakabo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa] )
	2001	Best Paper Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1998	Best Paper Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Yoshihiro Nakabo, Idaku Ishii, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1990	Best Optics Paper Award, the Optical Society of Japan, the Society of Applied Physics in Japan (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1984	Best Paper Award, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)

Awards from Division of Academic Society (Domestic) (6)

	2011	Award for Encouragement of Research, the System Integration Technical Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Yuji Yamakawa, Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2007	ROBOMEC Award, the the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Noriatsu Furukawa, Taku Senoo, Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2005	ROBOMEC Award, the the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Makoto Kaneko, Hieyong Jeong, Mitsuru Higashimori, Idaku Ishii, Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2003	Award for Encouragement, the System Integration Technical Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Akio Namiki, Yoshiro Imai, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2003	ROBOMEC Award, the the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Makoto Shimojo, Ryota Makino, Hironori Ogawa, Takafumi Suzuki, Akio Namiki, Takashi Saito, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Kunihiko Mabuchi)
	1999	Major Contribution Award, the the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Fellow from Academic Society (Domestic) (3)

	2012	Fellow, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2010	Fellow, the Robotics Society of Japan (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1997	Fellow, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Awards from non-Academic Society (Domestic) (17)

	2013	Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, the Inoue Fondation for Science (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2012	Ericsson Telecommunications Award, Ericsson Japan K.K. (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2012	Houkou Award, the Hattori Houkou Foundation (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2012	Funai Research Award, the Funai Fundation for Information Technology (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2012	Shimazu Award, the Shimazu Science and Technology Foundation (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2010	Excellence Prize, Entertainment Division of Japan Media Arts Festival (Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Yusaku Kuribara, and Alexis Zerroug)
	2010	Best Paper Award, the FANUC FA and Robot Foundation (Makoto Shimojo, Takaaki Nishino, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2009	Ericsson Young Scientist Award, Ericsson Japan K.K. (Yoshihiro Watanabe)
	2006	Grand Prize, Art Division of Japan Media Arts Festival (Alvaro Cassinelli)
	2002	Ericsson Young Scientist Award, Ericsson Japan K.K. (Takashi Komuro)
	2002	IP Award (LSI IP Design Award), the Steering Committee of LSI IP Design Award (Masatoshi Ishikawa, Shingo Kagami, Takashi Komuro, and Idaku Ishii)
	2000	Research Award, the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology (Makoto Naruse)
	2000	Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, the Inoue Fondation for Science (Makoto Naruse)
	2000	Best IP Award (LSI IP Design Award), the Steering Committee of LSI IP Design Award (Masatoshi Ishikawa, Takashi Komuro, Kazuya Ogawa, and Idaku Ishii)
	1999	Kenjiro Sakurai Memorial Prize, the Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1998	Award for Progress in Advanced Automation Technology, the the Foundation for Promotion of Advanced Automation Technology (Yoshihiro Nakabo, Idaku Ishii, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1988	Best Researcher Award, the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Best Paper Awards of International Conference (13)

	2013	Poster Award, International Workshop on Optical Terahertz Science and Technology (OTST) 2013 (Yasuaki Monnai)
	2012	Best IROS Jubilee Video Award, 2012 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (Masatoshi Ishikawa, Akio Namiki, Taku Senoo, and Yuji Yamakawa)
	2011	Best Presentation Award, 42nd IEEE VAIL Computer Elements Workshop (Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2011	Le Grand Prix du Jury, 13th Int.Conf.on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual) (Alexis Zerroug, Alvaro Cassinelli, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2010	Young Author Award in IROS2010, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2009	Best project in the category of Medicine and Health, 11th Int.Conf.on Virtual Reality (Laval Virtual) (Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory)
	2008	Young Author Award in ICRA'08, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Japan Chapter (Takeshi Hasegawa)
	2007	Best Paper Nomination Finalist, 2007 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (Makoto Shimojo, Takuma Araki, Aiguo Ming, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2006	Best Paper in Biomimetics, 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (Anchelee Davies, Naoko Ogawa, Hiromasa Oku, Koichi Hashimoto, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2006	Best Manipulation Paper Award, 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (Noriatsu Furukawa, Akio Namiki, Taku Senoo, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2004	Best Vision Paper Award Finalist, 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (Yoshiro Imai, Akio Namiki, Koichi Hashimoto, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2003	Excellent Paper Award, 2003 6th Japan-France Congress on Mechatronics & 4th Asia-Europe Congress on Mechatronics (Makoto Shimojo, Ryota Makino, Hironori Ogawa, Takafumi Suzuki, Akio Namiki, Takashi Saito, Masanori Kunimoto, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Kunihiko Mabuchi)
	1996	Best Video Award Finalist, 1996 IEEE Int.Conf.on Robotics and Automation (Yoshihiro Nakabo, Idaku Ishii, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Awards from non-Academic Society (International) (1)

2010

Nissan Research Challenge Innovative Concept Award, Nissan Research Center (Carson Reynolds, Alvaro Cassinelli, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa, Tomoko Hayashi, Isao Kanemaki, Takehiro Goto, Takashi Asari, Yuichi Nakamura, Koutaro Furukawa)

Awards for Young Researcher from Academic Society (Domestic) (10)

	2012	Young Excellence Award, the System Integration Technical Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2012	Suzuki Memorial Incentive Award, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (Kohei Okumura)
	2011	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2009	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Hiromasa Oku)
	2006	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Naoko Ogawa)
	2005	Young Author Award, the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, (Taku Senoo)
	2004	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Shingo Kagami)
	2002	Best Author Award, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (Takashi Komuro)
	2000	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Akio Namiki)
	1999	Young Investigation Excellence Award, the Robotics Society of Japan (Idaku Ishii)

Best Paper Awards of Domestic Conference (18)

	2013	Award for Encouragement of Research Presentation, the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology (Masahiro Yamada, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2012	Excellent Student Presentation Award, the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (Kohei Okumura)
	2012	Excellent Paper Award, Symposium on Sensing via Image Information SSII2011 (Hideshi Arima, Koutaro Itoyama, Masahiro Yamada, Takashi Komuro, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2011	Audience Award, Symposium on Sensing via Image Information SSII2011 (Hideshi Arima, Koutaro Itoyama, Masahiro Yamada, Takashi Komuro, Yoshihiro Watanabe, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2009	Best Paper Award, 3D Image Conference 2008 (Yutaka Sugihara, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2008	Best Poster Award, Global COE ADIST Symposium, Toyohashi University of Technology (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2008	Best Poster Award, Image Media Processing Symposium (Kota Yamaguchi)
	2000	Award for Encouragement, IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Japan Chapter (Shingo Kagami, Takashi Komuro, Kazuya Ogawa, Idaku Ishii, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	1998	Best Paper Award, Third Robotics Symposia (Idaku Ishii, Tatsuya Murata, Ryosuke Matsuuchi, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)

Award from the System Integration Technical Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

	2012	SI2012 Best Presentation Award (Naoto Kouda, Yosuke Suzuki, Aigou Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2010	SI2010 Best Presentation Award (Kazuki Terada, Hiroaki Hasegawa, Naoto Kouda, Yosuke Suzuki, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2010	SI2010 Best Presentation Award (Hiroaki Hasegawa, Yu Mukoyama, Yosuke Suzuki, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2010	SI2009 Best Presentation Award (Seiichi Teshigawara, Satoru Shimizu, Aiguo Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2008	SI2008 Best Presentation Award (Yoshitomo Mizoguchi, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Aigou Ming, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2006	SI2006 Best Presentation Award (Noriatsu Furukawa, Taku Senoo, Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2006	SI2006 Best Presentation Award (Yuji Yamakawa, Akio Namiki, Masatoshi Ishikawa, and Makoto Shimojo)
	2005	SI2005 Best Session Presentation Award (Hiromasa Oku, Theodorus, Koichi Hashimoto, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)
	2004	SI2004 Best Session Presentation Award (Daisuke Shiokata, Akio Namiki, and Masatoshi Ishikawa)

University of Tokyo (3)

	2013	Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (Department of Creative Informatics, Master Course) (Daniel Heffernan)
	2011	Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (Department of Information Physics and Computing, Doctor Course) (Yuji Yamakawa)
	2008	Dean's Award, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (Department of Creative Informatics, Master Course) (Kazuhiro Terajima)