Project Associate Professor Kodaka and Colleagues Receive the IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award of FY2025 from the Information Processing Society of Japan

At the 2026 Annual General Meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), held on June 15, 2026, at the Japan Publishing Club in Tokyo, Project Associate Professor Akira Kodaka and colleagues from the Sensing & Design Laboratory (Kohtake Laboratory) received the IPSJ Industrial Achievement Award.

The laboratory has been conducting research in collaboration with LY Corporation to quantitatively capture the ever-changing information needs of disaster-affected areas through location-based web search queries. This award recognizes the broader set of development achievements that includes this collaborative research. Professor Naohiko Kohtake, Project Associate Professor Akira Kodaka, Project Senior Assistant Professor Akihiko Nishino, Project Assistant Professor Takashi Kanno, and Researcher Kaya Onda from the laboratory have participated in this initiative and continue to advance the research.

Achievement:
Development of an Information Filtering Model Based on Search Query Correlations Inside and Outside Areas of Interest, and a System for Presenting Information in Order of Importance

Contributors:
Kota Tsubouchi (LY Corporation) · Shuji Yamaguchi (LY Corporation) · Shota Shimada (LY Corporation) · Keijiro Saito (NHK) · Akira Kodaka (Keio University)

At the Achievement Award ceremony (Proj. Assoc. Prof. Kodaka is first from the right)