Awards
- Information and Systems Society Distinguished Reviewer Award,
The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE):
Masahiro Kimura,
2022.
- 2020 JSAI Incentive Award (Japanese Society for Artficial Intelligence):
Teru Fujii, Masahito Kumano, Masahiro Kimura,
"Detecting Geographical Competitive Structure for POI Visit Dynamics", 2021.
- 2018 JSAI Best Paper Award (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence):
Kanji Matsutani, Masahito Kumano, Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Kouzou Ohara, and Hiroshi Motoda,
"Extracting cooperative structure among online items from share-event sequence", 2019.
- 13th ARG SIG-WI2 Student Incentive Award
(ARG SIG Web Intelligence and Interaction):
Ikuru Tani, Masahito Kumano, Satoshi Kobori, and Masahiro Kimura,
"Detecting Spatio-Temporal Events Based on Flickr Data", 2018.
- CANDAR'18 Outstanding Paper Award
(6th International Symposium on Computing and Networking):
Kouzou Ohara, Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, and Hiroshi Motoda,
"Critical Node Identification Based on Articulation Point Detection for Network with Uncertain Connectivity", 2018.
- 11th ARG SIG-WI2 Student Incentive Award
(ARG SIG Web Intelligence and Interaction):
Kanji Matsutani, Masahito Kumano, Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Kouzou Ohara, and Hiroshi Motoda,
"Discovering Cooperative Structure among Online Items for Attention Dynamics", 2017.
- Runner-up, Best Paper Award, PRICAI 2016
(14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence):
Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, Kouzou Ohara, and Hiroshi Motoda,
"Detecting Critical Links in Complex Network to Maintain Information Flow/Reachability", 2016.
- 2015 JSAI Incentive Award (Japanese Society for Artficial Intelligence):
Kanji Matsutani, Masahito Kumano, Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Kouzou Ohara, and Hiroshi Motoda,
"Combining Activity-evaluation Information with NMF for Trust-link Prediction in Social Media", 2016.
- DSAA'2014 Best Research Paper Award (2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics):
Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Kouzou Ohara, Hiroshi Motoda,
"Efficient Analysis of Node Influence Based on SIR Model over Huge Complex Networks", 2014.
- 2012 JSAI Incentive Award (Japanese Society for Artficial Intelligence):
Takayuki Kamei, Keiko Ono, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura,
"Predicting Missing Links in Social Networks with Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes", 2013.
- 2009 JSIAM Best Paper Award (Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics):
Masahiro Kimura and Kazumi Saito,
"Extracting Major Latent Topics in Document Streams Using PMM-PCA", 2009.
- ICCIT'2008 Best Paper Award
(8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology):
Ken-ichi Fukui, Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, and Masayuki Numao,
"Sequence-based SOM: Visualizing Transition of Dynamic Clusters", 2008.
- 2004 JSAI Incentive Award (Japanese Society for Artficial Intelligence):
Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, and Naonori Ueda,
"Extracting Hot Topics from the Web", 2005.