Award

Disclaimer: This English version was generated by machine translation based on the Japanese page as of August 21, 2025. Please refer to the Japanese version for the official and most accurate information.

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
2025

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 (Self-Learning Monte Carlo with Concurrent CPU–GPU Utilization)	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

2025

Name (Affiliation)	Title	Nominated Center
Takaki Akiba(Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)	Quantum-HPC hybrid architecture toward reacting flow analysisl	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 Montréa）	Smoothness-adaptive sharpness-aware minimization for finding flatter minima	Institute of Science Tokyo

A scene from the award presentation at the 16th JHPCN Symposium.