Announcements

FY2025

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  • 2025/10/02 Six undergraduate students joined our laboratory.
  • 2025/09/30 Mr. Fujiwara, a second-year master's course student, has been selected as a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).
  • 2025/09/24 Prof. Ishikawa gave a talk at Ericsson D-15 Labs in Silicon Valley.
    • Naoki Ishikawa, Recent Research Highlights from the Quantum & Wireless Laboratory, Ericsson D-15 Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Sept. 24th, 2025.
  • 2025/09/19 Prof. Ishikawa gave a talk at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Boston.
    • Naoki Ishikawa, Foundations and Frontiers of Quantum-Accelerated Wireless Communications, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA, Sept. 19th, 2025.
  • 2025/09/17 Two M2 students have completed their degree in a shortened period of six months. In addition, Mr. Shintaro Fujiwara was selected as the representative for receiving the degree certificate (main), and Mr. Taiki Kato was selected as the representative for receiving the degree certificate (assistant).
  • 2025/09/08 Our joint works with Ericsson Research were introduced in Ericsson Forum 2025, Takanawa, Minato-ku, Tokyo.(ケータイWatch
  • 2024/09/03 Our paper on the superimposed pilot-based channel estimation for OTFS has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • 2025/08/06 Prof. Ishikawa received an award from the President of YNU for excellence in teaching. This year fifteen professors were recognized for their teaching excellence.
  • 2025/08/01 Prof. Ishikawa has been appointed as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • 2025/07/30 Our paper on the Grover adaptive search with spin variables has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
  • 2025/06/28 Prof. Ishikawa received the 38th Hiroshi Ando Memorial Academic Encouragement Award. This award honors five individuals aged 35 or younger in the field of electronics.
  • 2025/06/27 A new preprint has been released. It describes the mathematical similarity between wireless communications and quantum computing, and introduces research on quantum-assisted communication techniques.
  • 2025/06/18 Mr. Mikuriya, a second-year master's course student, gave a presentation on pilot assignment problem at IEEE VTC2025-Spring, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2025 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award.
    • Taku Mikuriya, Kengo Ando, Kein Yukiyoshi, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Koji Ishibashi and Naoki Ishikawa, “Quantum Speedup for Pilot Assignment Problems,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring), Oslo, Norway, June 2025.
    • Taku Mikuriya, IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2025 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award, 2025年6月23日. (IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
  • 2025/06/05 A patent application 2025-094259 has been filed.
  • 2025/05/28 Mr. Fujiwara's proposed project has been adopted by the MITOU Target Program for FY2025.(IPA
  • 2025/05/15 A collaborative research project with our laboratory was mentioned in Ericsson's announcement that it will establish an R&D center in Japan and hire up to 300 employees. (プレスリリース / 日経)
  • 2025/04/18 Our paper on the spectral efficiency maximization of data-carrying reference signals has been accepted for publication in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
    • Taiki Kato, Hiroki Iimori, Chandan Pradhan, Szabolcs Malomsoky, Naoki Ishikawa, “Maximizing spectrum efficiency of data-carrying reference signals via Bayesian optimization,” IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, in press. (arXiv)

FY2024

  • 2025/03/31 A research manager from Ericsson HQ visited YNU and discussed collaborative research with our laboratory.
  • 2025/03/28 Mr. Endo, a graduate of the Master's course, received the Telecom System Technology Student Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation. (TAF / YNU)
  • 2025/03/25 Two graduate students successfully completed their master's degrees, and seven undergraduate students successfully completed their bachelor's degrees. In addition, Mr. Yukiyoshi received five awards, including the President's Award.
  • 2025/02/27 Joint research agreement of seven organizations for scalable quantum information processing has been signed. (YNU)
  • 2025/02/21 A new preprint on data-carrying reference signals is available for download.
  • 2025/02/05 Our paper on the Grassmann-based covert communications has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
  • 2025/01/27 A new preprint on OTFS is available for download.
  • 2024/11/27 Prof. Ishikawa gave a talk at Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology R&D Center.
  • 2024/10/16 A new preprint on quantum polar ML decoding is available for download.
  • 2024/11/03 The 3rd Quantum Programming Contest Qcoder, developed by Mr. Yukiyoshi and his collaborators, was held. (Qcoder)
  • 2024/10/27 Mr. Rou, a PhD candidate at Prof. Abreu's group, will give a presentation at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers.
    • Hyeon Seok Rou, Kein Yukiyoshi, Taku Mikuriya, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, and Naoki Ishikawa, “AFDM chirp-permutation-index modulation with quantum-accelerated codebook design,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, California, US, October 2024.
  • 2024/10/17 A new preprint on quadratic assignment problem is available for download.
  • 2024/10/16 A new preprint on Grover adaptive search with spin variables is available for download.
  • 2024/10/10 Our paper on the quantum algorithm for binary constant weight codes has been accepted for publication in Quantum Information Processing.
    • Kein Yukiyoshi and Naoki Ishikawa, “Quantum search algorithm for binary constant weight codes,” Quantum Information Processing, in press. (arXiv)
  • 2024/10/10 Mr. Yukiyoshi, a second-year master's course student, gave a presentation on GAS at IEEE VTC2024-Fall, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2024 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 45 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
    • Kein Yukiyoshi, Taku Mikuriya, Hyeon Seok Rou, Giuseppe Abreu, Naoki Ishikawa, “Grover adaptive search for maximum likelihood detection of generalized spatial modulation,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, US, October 2024.
  • 2024/10/08 Mr. Baba, a first-year master's course student, gave a presentation on DNN-based detector for Grassmann constellation at IEEE VTC2024-Fall, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2024 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 37 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
    • Ryusei Baba, Hiroki Iimori, Chandan Pradhan, Szabolcs Malomsoky, and Naoki Ishikawa, “Deep neural network based reduced-complexity detector for Grassmann constellation,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, US, October 2024.
  • 2024/10/01 Five undergraduate students joined our laboratory.
  • 2024/09/19 A new preprint on Grassmann-based covert communication is available for download.
  • 2024/09/18 JST approved funding our joint research project for CRONOS.
  • 2024/08/28 Our paper on Grover adaptive search has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
  • 2024/06/25 Mr. Kato, a first-year master's course student, gave a presentation on data-carrying reference signals at IEEE VTC2024-Spring, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2024 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 23 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
    • Taiki Kato, Hiroki Iimori, Chandan Pradhan, Szabolcs Malomsoky, and Naoki Ishikawa, “Performance analysis of data-carrying reference signal in time-varying channels,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), Singapore, June 2024.
  • 2024/06/12 A new preprint on Grover adaptive search is available for download.
  • 2024/06/07 Our paper on the quantum speedup for multiuser detection has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
  • 2024/05/29 Mr. Yukiyoshi's proposed project has been adopted by the MITOU Target Program for FY2024.(IPA
  • 2024/04/22 Our paper on the acceleration of Grover adaptive search has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
  • 2024/04/01 Two graduate and three undergraduate students joined our laboratory.

FY2023

  • 2024/03/25 Mr. Yukiyoshi received a grant from the Unitary Fund for the global expansion of his quantum programming contest system. (Web)
  • 2024/03/25 Two graduate students successfully completed their master's degrees, and three undergraduate students successfully completed their bachelor's degrees. In addition, Mr. Norimoto received the YNU CREATES Paper Award.
  • 2024/03/14 Prof. Konstantin Mikhaylov (Assistant Professor, University of Oulu) visited our laboratory. He will stay until April 18.
  • 2024/03/14 Mr. Norimoto received the IEICE Smart Radio Paper Award. (SR / YNU)
  • 2024/02/21 Our proposal for JSPS Grant-in-Aid (Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research) has been approved.
  • 2024/02/20 Our paper on the achievable rate analysis of data-carrying reference signal has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
  • 2024/01/18 Mr. Katsuki received the IEEE SPS Japan Student Journal Paper Award. (SPS / YNU)
  • 2023/12/08 Prof. Ishikawa received an award from the President of YNU for obtaining external fundings. (YNU)
  • 2023/11/22 Our joint works with Ericsson Research were introduced in Ericsson Forum 2023, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo.(ケータイWatch
  • 2023/10/10 Mr. Kanazawa, a first-year master's course student, gave a presentation on OTFS at IEEE VTC2023-Fall, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2023 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 33 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
    • Yuta Kanazawa, Hiroki Iimori, Chandan Pradhan, Szabolcs Malomsoky, and Naoki Ishikawa, “Multiple superimposed pilots for accurate channel estimation in orthogonal time frequency space modulation,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Fall), Hong Kong, China, October 2023.
  • 2023/10/03 Four undergraduate students joined our laboratory.
  • 2023/09/12 One professor and three students from Anna University, India, visited our laboratory for research discussions and a lab tour.
  • 2023/08/29 Our paper on the capacity analysis of GQSM has been accepted for publication in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
  • 2023/08/04 A new preprint on Grover adaptive search is available for download.
  • 2023/07/13 Dr. Iimori, a collaborative researcher at Ericsson Research, gave a presentation at an internal conference.(Program
  • 2023/07/12 A patent application PCT/IB2023/057172 has been filed.
  • 2023/07/04 Our paper on Grover adaptive search has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
  • 2023/06/23 Mr. Norimoto, a second-year master's course student, gave a presentation at IEEE VTC2023-Spring, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2023 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 32 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
    • Masaya Norimoto and Naoki Ishikawa, “Grover adaptive search for joint maximum-likelihood detection of power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2023-Spring), Florence, Italy, Jun. 2023.
  • 2023/05/29 Mr. Yukiyoshi's proposed project has been adopted by the MITOU Target Program for FY2023.(IPA
  • 2023/05/11 Our paper on physical-layer security has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
  • 2023/04/14 Our online lab tour was held. Thank you for your participation.
  • 2023/04/11 Our paper on passive Wi-Fi monitoring has been accepted for publication in IET Electronics Letters.
  • 2023/04/04 A plenary meeting of JST SICORP EU-JP ORACLE project was held in Japan.

FY2022

FY2021

  • 2022/03/31 A patent application 2022-058084 has been filed.
  • 2022/03/31 A patent application 2022-058078 has been filed.
  • 2022/03/31 A patent application 2022-058075 has been filed.
  • 2022/03/24 Three undergraduate students successfully completed their bachelor's degrees.
  • 2022/03/18 The first Deliverable of the EU-JP ORACLE project has been published.(Deliverable
  • 2022/03/07 Prof. Ishikawa was certified as an IEEE Transactions on Communications Exemplary Reviewer 2021. (Web)
  • 2022/02/25 A patent application 2022-028275 has been received.
  • 2022/02/23 A new preprint on physical layer security is available for download.
  • 2022/02/15 Our laboratory will give five presentations at IEICE General Conference. (PDF)
  • 2022/02/01 Our laboratory made a joint research agreement with Ericsson.
  • 2021/11/01 International press release on quantum speedup for index modulation was published. (English / Japanese)
  • 2021/10/05 Three undergraduate students joined our laboratory.
  • 2021/09/29 Mr. Katsuki, a first-year master's course student, gave a presentation on the nonsquare differential MIMO at IEEE VTC2021-Fall, and received the IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter 2021 Young Researcher's Encouragement Award. (Program p. 33 / IEEE VTS Tokyo/Japan Chapter / YNU)
  • 2021/09/08 A paper on chaos-based physical layer security scheme was accepted for publication in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
  • 2021/08/04 A paper on quantum speedup for wireless communications was accepted for publication in IEEE Access. This paper is a single authored publication by Dr. Ishikawa.
  • 2021/07/13 The first-authored paper by Mr. Katsuki, a first-year master's course student, has been accepted to IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2021 Fall.
  • 2021/05/09 A preprint on quantum speedup for wireless communications is now available on TechRxiv. (TechRxiv)
  • 2021/04/01 Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research (SCAT) approved funding our research project.
  • 2021/04/01 Four graduate students joined our laboratory.

FY2020