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The Best Paper, IEEE SpaCCS 2024

Akito Yamamoto and Tetsuo Shibuya were awarded the IEEE Best Paper Award at the 17th IEEE International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication & Storage (IEEE SpaCCS 2024). (November 2024)

• Akito Yamamoto and Tetsuo Shibuya, "Generalization and Enhancement of Piecewise Mechanism for Collecting Multidimensional Data", The 17th IEEE International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Strage (IEEE SpaCCS 2024), Oct 30-Nov 2, 2024, Kaifeng, Henan, China, in press.

The Most Outstanding Student Publication Award, IMSUT

Quentin Hillebrand was awarded the outstanding student publication award from IMSUT.(March 2024)

JSPS Special Researcher

Ramesh Rajaby joined us as a JSPS special researcher. (November 2023)

Assistant Professor

Robert Barish became an assistant professor. (October 2023)

KDD 2023 (The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discover and Data Mining)

Our paper on graph differential privacy by was accepted at KDD 2023, the top conference in the database community.This is a joint work with Prof. Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn. (May 2023)

• Quentin Hillebrand, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, and Tetsuo Shibuya, Unbiased locally private estimator for polynomials of Laplacian variables, The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discover and Data Mining (KDD 2023), 2023, to appear.

The Dean's Award, IST

Akito Yamamoto was awarded the Dean's award of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo.(March 2023)

The Most Outstanding Student Publication Award, IMSUT

Akito Yamamoto was awarded the most outstanding student publication award from IMSUT.(March 2023)

The University of Tokyo President's Award

Akito Yamamoto was awarded the University of Tokyo President's Award for Students.(March 2023)

IEEE TrustCom2022 Outstanding Paper Award

A paper by Akito Yamamoto and Tetsuo Shibuya was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Paper Award at IEEE TrustCom 2022. (December 2022)

ICCBD2021 Best Oral Presentation Award

Arda Akdemir won the best oral presentation award at the 4th International Conference on Computing and Big Data (ICCBD 2021). (December 2021)

Good Presentation Award, IPSJ SIGBIO

Akito Yamamoto won the good presentation award at the 67th IPSJ SIGBIO meeting. (December 2021)

Science and Technology Award by Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

Tetsuo Shibuya won the Science and Technology Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. (April 2021)

New Staff

Wataru Inariba joined us as a Project Researcher. (April 2021)

School of Science Encouragement Award

Kazushi Kitaya won the School of Science Encouragement Award. (March 2021)

New Staff

Robert Daniel Barish oined us as a Project Researcher. (May 2020) .
He promoted to a Project Assistant Professor. (October 2020)

School of Science Encouragement Award

Tatsuki Koga won the School of Science Encouragement Award. (March 2020)

Student Encouragement Award of IPSJ National Convention

Mr. Yohichi Sasaki, the presenter and the first author of our paper was awarded. (2017)

A New Book

A book by Tetsuo Shbiuya was published. (In Japanese) (Maruzen)（Amazon)

IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award

Mr. Yohichi Sasaki, the presenter and the first author of the paper below was awarded the IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award in 2016.

• Yoichi Sasaki, Tetsuo Shibuya, Kimito Ito, Hiroki Arimura, Efficient Approximate 3-Dimensional Point Set Matching and Its Application to  Molecular Pattern Matching, IPSJ SIG Technical Report, 2015-BIO-42(68), pp. 1-7, June 15, 2015.

SGBIO Best Student Presentation Award, SIGBIO, IPSJ

Mr. Yohichi Sasaki, the presenter and the first author of the paper below was awarded the SIGBIO Best Student Presentation Award by SIGBIO, IPSJ, in 2016.

• Yoichi Sasaki, Tetsuo Shibuya, Kimito Ito, Hiroki Arimura, Efficient Approximate 3-Dimensional Point Set Matching and Its Application to  Molecular Pattern Matching, IPSJ SIG Technical Report, 2015-BIO-42(68), pp. 1-7, June 15, 2015.

SGBIO Contribution Award, IPSJ

Tetsuo Shibuya received the SIGBIO Contribution Award from SIGBIO, IPSJ, on December 18, 2014.

SAR Presentation Award, The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan

Dr. Genki Terashi, the presenter and the first author of the paper below was awarded the SAR Presentation Award by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, for his presetation on our research. Related publication:

• Genki Terashi, Tetsuo Shibuya, and Mayuko Takeda-Shitaka, LB3D: a protein 3D substructure search program based on the lower bound of a RMSD value, Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 493-503, 2012.

Nature Genetics

A paper of the ICGC project was published in Nature Genetics.

• Akihiro Fujimoto, Yasushi Totoki, Tetsuo Abe, Keith A Boroevich, Fumie Hosoda, Ha Hai Nguyen, Masayuki Aoki, Naoya Hoshono, Michiaki Kubo, Fuyuki Miya, Yasuhito Arai, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Takuya Shirakihara, Masao Nagasaki, Tetsuo Shibuya, Kaoru Nakano, Kumiko Watanabe-Makino, Hiroko Tanaka, Hiromi Nakamura, Jun Kusuda, Hidenori Ojima, Kazuaki Shimada, Takuji Okusaka, Masaki Ueno, Yoshinobu Shigekawa, Yoshiiku Kawakami, Koji Arihiro, Hideki Ohdan, Kunihito Gotoh, Osamu Ishikawa, Shun-ichi Ariizumi, Masakazu Yamamoto, Terumasa Yamada, Kazuaki Chayama, Tomoo Kosuge, Hiroki Yamaue, Naoyuki Kamatani, Satoru Miyano, Hitoshi Nakagama, Yusuke Nakamura, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Tatsuhiro Shibata, and Hidewaki Nakagawa. Whole Genome Sequencing of Liver Cancers Identifies Etiological Influences on Mutation Patterns and Recurrent Mutations in Chromatin Regulators. Nature Genetics, 2012.doi: 10.1038/ng.2291

MSR Japan New Faculty Award

Tetsuo Shibuya won the MSR Japan New Faculty Award from Microsoft co. ltd., on November 15, 2011.

FFIT Science Award

Tetsuo Shibuya won the FFIT Science Award on May 28, 2011.

Nature Genetics

A paper on the first sequenced whole genome of a Japanese individual was published in Nature Genetics, the journal with the highest impact factor.

• Akihiro Fujimoto, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Naoya Hosono, Kaoru Nakano, Tetsuo Abe, Keith A Boroevich, Masao Nagasaki, Rui Yamaguchi, Tetsuo Shibuya, Michiaki Kubo, Satoru Miyano, Yusuke Nakamura, and Tatsuhiko Tsunoda. Whole-genome Sequencing and Comprehensive Variant Analysis of a Japanese Individual Using Massively Parallel Sequencing, Nature Genetics, Vol. 42, 2010, pp. 931-936.

J. ACM

A paper on the "geometric suffix tree" was published in J. ACM, the top computer science journal of all fields.

• Tetsuo Shibuya, Geometric Suffix Tree: Indexing Protein 3-D Structures, Journal of the ACM, Vol. 57, No. 3, Article No.15, pp. 1-17, 2010.

RECOMB Best Paper Award

The paper below won the Best Paper Award at the RECOMB 2009 conference, one of the two top conferences in computational biology, . See also:the page on SMAD (Statistical Model-based Algorithm design).

• Tetsuo Shibuya, Searching Protein 3-D Structures in Linear Time, Proc. 13th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2009), 2009 LNBI 5541, pp 1-15. (PDF file)

IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award

Tetsuo Shibuya won the IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award on March 11, 2009.

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