On 21st February 2026, Assistant Professor Yuto Miyatake, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received The 49th Yasujirou Niwa Memorial Paper Award.
Award ceremony
The 49th Yasujirou Niwa Memorial Paper Award
This award is presented to young researchers who have conducted original research and published outstanding papers in the fields related to electronic and communication engineering (broadly including information engineering, electrical engineering, and related areas). It was established in 1977 in honor of Dr. Yasujirō Niwa, the first president of Tokyo Denki University, to commemorate his achievements.
About awarded research
Y. Miyatake, R. Tang, K. Makino, J. Tominaga, N. Miyata, M. Okano, K. Toprasertpong, S. Takagi, M. Takenaka, “Photonic matrix-vector multiplication with low-insertion-loss and non-volatile Ge2Sb2Te3S2 intensity modulators,” IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 4347–4354, June 2024 (invited).
Reason for Award
Dr. Yuto Miyatake proposed an optical intensity modulator using a novel phase-change material capable of non-volatile operation, applied it to a photonic matrix operation circuit, and fabricated and demonstrated the circuit. This work forms a fundamental basis for realizing optical computation circuits that surpass the performance of conventional electronic circuits.
Your impression & future plan
I am deeply honored to receive the prestigious and historically significant Yasujirō Niwa Memorial Paper Award. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the judges and everyone involved. I am also grateful to the professors who have guided me and to all those with whom I have had valuable discussions. Encouraged by this award, I will continue to devote myself to further study and research.
Associate Professor Takayuki Yamada, Institute of Engineering Innovation and Department of Mechanical Engineering, received a JSPS Prize
Ena Tomoda (D1), Department of Chemistry & Biotechnology, received The Best Presentation Award
