Awards

  1. 2001 SITA Encouragement Award (by The Society of Information Theory and its Applications (SITA)): "Variable length universal entanglement concentration by local operations"

  2. Japan IBM prize with computer science section 2010: "Universal protocol in quantum information and its application to quantum key distribution"

  3. Funai Foundation for information Tecnology Award computer science section 2010: "Universal quantum information protocol and its application to quantum cryptography"

  4. 2011 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award: "Information Spectrum Approach to Second-Order Coding Rate in Channel Coding"

    (See also Prestigious information theory award won by CQT's Mashito Hayashi)

  5. FY2015 JSPS PRIZE: "Information Theory and Quantum Information Theory for Finite-Coding-Length"

  6. 12th Japan Academy Medal: "Information Theory and Quantum Information Theory for Finite-Coding-Length"

    (See also Visiting Professor Masahito Hayashi claims high-profile Japanese science prizes)

  7. IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to Shannon theory, information-theoretic security, and quantum information theory

HAYASHI Masahito