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Tsukada Laboratory contributed to IEEE INFOCOM 2026, held at the Hilton Tokyo from May 18 to 21, 2026. IEEE INFOCOM is one of the most highly ranked international conferences on computer communications and networking, and this year marks its return to Japan for the first time in 29 years, bringing together more than 900 researchers worldwide. Part 1. Main Conference: Local Arrangements Chair and Student Volunteers Associate Professor Manabu Tsukada served as the Local Arrangements Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2026, leading the on-site operations across the four-day program — venue, registration, social events, banquet, and logistics — in close collaboration with the IEEE Communications Society and the technical program committee.Read more

Tsukada Lab’s D3 student Vishal Chauhan attended CHI 2026 (ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) in Barcelona, Spain, from 13 to 17 April 2026. CHI is one of the most important international conferences in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. Researchers, students, and industry members from many countries gathered there to share new ideas and recent research. It was a valuable opportunity for him to learn about new work and meet people from different research communities. At the conference, Vishal presented the paper titled “Don’t Worry, Just Follow Me: Prototyping and In-the-Wild Evaluation of Smart Pole Interaction Unit with Mobility.” This research focuses on how the Smart Pole InteractionRead more

🎉 We’re excited to announce that Tsukada Lab (TLab) at the University of Tokyo, in collaboration with the Autonomous & Intelligent Systems Lab (AISL) from Amirkabir University of Technology, has received the Exceptional Merit Award 🥉 in the V2X-Sec MEIS Challenge (Track 1: Temporal Perception) at CVPR 2025, and out of 29 participating teams, our method ranked 🥇3rd place on the official leaderboard in Track 1. 🧠 This challenge was part of the CVPR 2025 workshop:“Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative-AI Era: Opportunities, Challenges and Futures.”🔗 Workshop Website📊 Leaderboard 🔍 About the Challenge:With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication has become a vital enabler for improvingRead more

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alex ORSHOLITS presented his poster titled “Edge Vision AI Co-Processing for Dynamic Context Awareness in Mixed Reality” at the IEEE VR 2025 conference in Saint-Malo, France. This research demonstrates a scalable approach to improving spatial computing and dynamic environmental awareness in Mixed Reality by leveraging edge-based AI co-processing with low-power hardware accelerator and the Magic Leap 2 headset The presented system simultaneously ran five vision AI models (YOLOv8s, CenterPose, FastDepth, SCRFD, and ArcFace) at 30 frames per second, streaming and displaying detection results on a Magic Leap 2 headset in real-time and with minimal latency. This poster was awarded an Honorable Mention, oneRead more

We are delighted to share that Vishal Chauhan, a member of our Tsukada Laboratory, and Anubhav from the Department of Mathematical Informatics, participated in the prestigious OzCHI’24 Student Design Challenge (SDC). This renowned event was held at the OzCHI conference in Brisbane, Australia, from November 30 to December 4, 2024. The conference serves as an international hub for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and cutting-edge research. The SDC centered on the theme Beyond Being Human, exploring how HCI extends beyond human interactions to encompass AI and the natural world. Vishal and Anubhav presented their innovative design solution, Reimagining Smart Poles: A Sustainable Interface for Pedestrian-AV Ecosystems. Their idea, which features sustainable smartRead more

The International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA2024) was held at the University of Tokyo’s Komaba Campus from November 28 to 29, 2024. This conference gathered researchers from various fields to share and discuss the latest advancements in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and intelligent systems. Topics covered included supervised and unsupervised learning, cloud computing, GPU technologies, and applications in IoT, smart cities, and AR/VR. Two papers from Tsukada Lab received Best Paper Awards at the conference. The first paper, “Cross-Attention Enhanced Imitation Learning for End-to-end Autonomous Driving in Unprotected Turns,” authored by Dongyang Li, a second-year master’s student, proposed a novel imitation learning method to improve autonomousRead more

We are delighted to announce that Ms. Chi Weiqi, a D1 student from our laboratory, received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter Young Researcher’s Encouragement Award at the 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring) in Singapore. This conference, held from June 24-27, is a major event in wireless, mobile, and vehicular technology, bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to share the latest advancements. Ms. Chi presented her paper titled “V2I Blockage Modeling and Performance Evaluation for Autonomous Driving.” Her research focuses on the challenges in vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication, particularly in the context of millimeter-wave (mmWave) technology. By using an RSU-assisted system, her study addresses blockages in multi-lane scenariosRead more

Kengo Suzuki (M2) recently participated in the 2nd Workshop on Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA), held alongside the IEEE INFOCOM 2024 conference in Vancouver, Canada. This workshop focused on the transformation of radio access networks (RAN) as we move towards 5G-Advanced and 6G technologies. Topics like the Open RAN movement, open-source software solutions, and AI’s role in network management were highlighted. Kengo presented his research paper titled “Toward B5G/6G Connected Autonomous Vehicles: O-RAN-Driven Millimeter-Wave Beam Management and Handover Management.” His work proposed a novel way to use O-RAN architecture to improve communication for autonomous vehicles, especially in challenging road scenarios. Notably, his presentation won the Best PaperRead more

From December 14th to 15th, 2023, at the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, Yuze Jiang, an M2 student from our laboratory, was awarded the Best Paper Award (Silver) at the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Computing and its Emerging Applications (ICEA 2023), despite it being his first participation in an international conference. The award-winning paper proposed a method of using LiDAR-equipped roadside units and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communication to accurately estimate the position of connected vehicles and assist them when their self-localization is insufficient. The results of the simulation indicated that this method surpasses the traditional Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) scan matching-based approach in termsRead more

Team TLAB, consisting of Chikara Matsuzawa (1st year master’s student) and Kengo Suzuki (1st year master’s student), won the 2nd place excellence award at the Automated AI Challenge 2023 (Integration) held on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at the University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus. Six student teams and 10 adult teams participated in the finals, with Team TLAB coming in first place among students and second place overall, a great accomplishment following their third-place finish in last year’s Automated Driving AI Challenge 2022. In the Automated AI Challenge, students competed to complete challenges using Autoware, an open-source automated driving operating system. In the qualifying round, contestants drove self-driving cars in aRead more

2nd-year master student Mr. Asabe received the Best Poster Award at The 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2022 held in Hiroshima, Japan.Read more

Team TLAB, consisting of Kambara-san (Master 2nd) and Asabe-san (Master 2nd), won third place in the Japan Automotive AI Challenge 2022Read more

We received the Best Paper Award for the results presented at the Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile (DICOMO2021).Read more

We won the first prize and the ontology prize in Linked Open Data Challenge 2020 Japan. See more detail about SDM Ontology (in Japanese). Read more

Our paper published in Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Systems (DICOMO2020) won the best presentation award.Read more

Dr. Tsukada (Chair of the SDM consortium) was awarded Yamashita SIG Research Award.Read more

Our paper published in Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Systems (DICOMO2018) won the best paper award.Read more

Our paper presented during VEHICULAR 2018 won the best paper award.Read more

We won the first prize in LIVE HACKASONG hold in Billboard Tokyo. LinkRead more

Our paper published in Symposium on Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile Systems (DICOMO2017) won the best paper award.Read more