April 15, 2022
RIKEN
Winners of the “Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award”, which recognizes those who have made outstanding achievements in research and development and promoting the understanding of science and technology, were announced by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on April 8, 1945. I did. This year, 17 people (11 scientific and technical prizes, 6 young scientists prizes) were awarded by the RIKEN.
Science and Technology Prize Research Division (8 people)
Target: Those who have conducted original research or development that may contribute to the development of science and technology in Japan. (65 people in the “Research Department” in total this year)
- Munetaka Aida
- Research mandate of Hou Organometallic Chemistry Laboratory of Pioneering Research Headquarters
- “Research on the production of environmentally friendly materials by visible light”
- Inui Kentaro
- Integrated Innovative Intelligence Research Center Goal-Oriented Foundational Technology Research Group Natural Language Understanding Team Team Leader
- “Study of the computer model of editing linguistic information through knowledge and reasoning”
- Masatake Oshikawa
- Visiting Researcher, Furusaki Condensed Matter Theory Laboratory, Pioneer Research Headquarters
- “Study of the basic theory on the symmetry and topology of the quantum many-body system”
- Yuji Sugita
- Principal Investigator, Sugita Theoretical Molecular Sciences Division, Pioneering Research Headquarters
- “Theoretical study of the dynamic biomolecular structure in an intracellular medium”
- Sugiyama goes
- Director, Innovative Intelligence Research Center
- “Research on machine learning with weak teachers that contributes to the construction of reliable artificial intelligence”
- Yuichi Taniguchi
- Team Leader, Cellular System Control Science Research Team, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Innovation
- “Study on the functioning mechanism of the genome at the molecular level”
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science Group Director, Quantum Functional Systems Research Group
- “Research on the physics of semiconductor quantum information and its application to quantum computers”
- Miyoshi Jianzheng
- Computational Science Research Center Data Assimilation Research Team Leader
- “Research on big data assimilation that innovates in numerical weather forecasting”
Science and Technology Award, Science and Technology Promotion Division (3 people)
Target: Those who have carried out activities that contribute to the promotion of science and technology. (23 people in total for the “Science and Technology Promotion Division” this year)
- Makoto Tsubokura (Chief)
- Computational Science Research Center Team Leader, Integrated Solutions Research Team for Complex Phenomena
- “Contribution to understanding and preventing the spread of droplet infection by Tomitake simulation”※1
- Akiyoshi Iida
- Computational Science Research センター Finding Unified Solutions to Complex Phenomena チーム Visiting Senior Researcher
- “Contribution to understanding and preventing the spread of droplet infection by Tomitake simulation”※1
- ※1Achievements of a group consisting of Professor Kazuhide Ito, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kyushu University, Professor Naoki Kagi, Faculty of Environmental and Social Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Professor Katsushi Yamakawa, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology
- Tatsuya Harada
- Innovative Intelligence Integrated Research Center Goal-Oriented Fundamental Technology Research Group Medical Machine Intelligence Team Leader
- “Contribution to AI automatic diagnosis research based on big data medical cloud”※2
- ※2Panel with Prof. Shinichi Sato, National Institute of Computing Research, Information and Systems Research Organization, Norihito Goda, National Computing Research Institute, National Institute of Computing, and Prof. Kensaku Mori, Graduate School of Computer Science, University of Nagoya
Young Scientist Award (6 people)
Target: Young researchers under the age of 40 who have made outstanding achievements in research and development, such as nascent research and research from an original perspective. (98 people in total this year)
- Azusa Inoue
- Biomedical Sciences Research Center Center for Integrated Development of Field Leaders Metabolism Epigenetics Program YCI Laboratory Principal Investigator
- “Study on the inheritance of the mammalian epigenome”
- Takayuki Kawaii
- Visiting Scientist, Cell-Free Protein Synthesis Research Team, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Innovation
- “Ultra-sensitive bioanalytical research based on innovative electrophoresis technology”
- Tomoya Kurei
- Visiting Researcher, Transcriptional Controlled Structural Biology Research Team, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Innovation
Teaching Assistant, Institute of Quantitative Life Sciences, University of Tokyo - “Research in structural biology on the control of reactions in vivo by chromatin”
- Shunji Otsuki
- Visiting Researcher, Data Assimilation Research Team, Computational Science Research Center
- “Prediction research of the global environment by large-scale numerical calculation and assimilation of satellite observation data”
- Tatsuya Sakamaki
- Radiation Photon Science Research Center, Research Group for Utilization Technology, Material Dynamics Research Group, Visiting Researcher
- “Study of the Earth’s internal materials based on experimental high-pressure petrology”
- Naoto Tsuji
- Visiting Scholar, Quantum Condensation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emerging Science and Technology
- “Theoretical study of the phenomenon of photoresonance in Higgs mode in superconductors”
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