Award
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Purpose
The Joint Usage/Research Center for Interdisciplinary Large-scale Information Infrastructures (JHPCN) presents awards to recognize and encourage outstanding joint research projects, with the aim of promoting their future development.
JHPCN Outstanding Research Award
The JHPCN Outstanding Research Award is presented to research projects (excluding exploratory projects) that have achieved particularly outstanding results.
Past Recipients
2026
| Name (Affiliation) | Title | Nominated Center |
|---|---|---|
| Masao Nagasaki (Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University) |
Development of a Long-Read Sequencing–Based Haplotype Catalog and Experimental Implementation of a Cross-Cloud Batch Job System Across Multiple Cloud Environments | Kyushu University |
| Yusuke Hiraga (Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University) |
Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Probable Maximum Precipitation: A Study of Linear Precipitation Bands | Tohoku University |
第18回JHPCNシンポジウム（2026年度）における優秀課題賞受賞者（中央：九州大学 長﨑教授）とJHPCN総括拠点長（左：東京大学 千葉教授）、課題審査委員会委員長（右：九州大学 美添教授）。
2025年
| Name (Affiliation) | Title | Nominated Center |
|---|---|---|
| Yuki Nagai (Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo) |
Self-Learning Monte Carlo with Concurrent CPU–GPU Utilization | The University of Tokyo |
| Hayato Shiba (Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo) |
Development of a Predictive System for Amorphous Dynamics Using Graph Neural Networks and Generative Models | The University of Tokyo |
Exploratory Research Award
The Exploratory Research Award is presented to outstanding exploratory joint research projects that were presented at the JHPCN Symposium, with the aim of encouraging their advancement to future competitive joint research projects.
Past Recipients
2026
| Name (Affiliation) | Title | Nominated Center |
|---|---|---|
| Takashi Unuma (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency) |
A Numerical Study of the Physical Mechanisms Connecting Environmental Atmospheric Conditions to Cloud Microphysical Processes in Convective Clouds | The University of Tokyo |
2025
| Name (Affiliation) | Title | Nominated Center |
|---|---|---|
| Takaki Akiba(Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo) | Quantum-HPC hybrid architecture toward reacting flow analysis | The University of Tokyo |
2024
| Name (Affiliation) | Title | Nominated Center |
|---|---|---|
| Masayuki Imai (Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University) | Self-organization of ovarian cancer organoids revealed by 3D image segmentation and phase-field model | Tohoku University |
| Daiki Naganuma (Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Université de Montréal) | Smoothness-adaptive sharpness-aware minimization for finding flatter minima | Institute of Science Tokyo |
第18回JHPCNシンポジウム（2026年度）における萌芽的研究賞受賞者（中央：気象庁気象研究所 鵜沼博士）とJHPCN総括拠点長（左：東京大学 千葉教授）、課題審査委員会委員長（右：九州大学 美添教授）。