Best paper award, The 6th International Workshop on GPU Computing and AI (Jiamian Huang, Yasuaki Ito and Koji Nakano, A GPU Implementation of Watercolor Painting Image Generation), November 2021.
Best paper award, The Eighth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (Hiroshi Kagawa, Yasuaki Ito, Koji Nakano, Ryota Yasudo, Yuya Kawamata, Ryota Katsuki, Yusuke Tabata, Takashi Yazane, Kenichiro Hamano, Fully-Pipelined Architecture for Simulated Annealing-based QUBO Solver on the FPGA), November 2020.
Best paper award, The 5th International Workshop on GPU Computing and AI (Ye Yuan, Yasuaki Ito, and Koji Nakano, Art Font Image Generation with Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks), November 2020.
Best Paper Award, 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing (Naoya Yamamoto, Koji Nakano, Yasuaki Ito, and Daisuke Takafuji, Akihiko Kasagi, Tsuguchika Tabaru, Huffman Coding with Gap Arrays for GPU Acceleration), August 2020.
Best paper award, The 4th International Workshop on GPU Computing and AI (Naoki Matsumura, Yasuaki Ito, Koji Nakano, Akihiko Kasagi and Tsuguchika Tabaru, Structured Sparse Fully-Connected Layers in the CNNs and its GPU Acceleration), November 2019.
Best paper award, The Sixth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (Takuma Wada, Naoki Matsumura, Koji Nakano and Yasuaki Ito, Efficient Byte Stream Pattern Test using Bloom Filter with Rolling Hash Functions on the FPGA), November 2018.
Outstanding paper award, The Fifth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (Hiroki Tokura, Yuki Kuroda, Yasuaki Ito, and Koji Nakano, A Square Pointillism Image Generation, and its GPU Acceleration), November 2017.
Best paper award, The 8th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications (Naoaki Harada, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Koji Nakano and Yasuaki Ito, A Hardware Sorter for Almost Sorted Sequences, with FPGA Implementations), November 2016.
Best paper award, The Third International Symposium on Computing and Networking (Akihiko Kasagi, Koji Nakano and Yasuaki Ito, Parallelization Techniques for Error Diffusion with GPU Implementations), December 2015.
Outstanding paper award, The Third International Symposium on Computing and Networking (Lucas Saad, Jacir Bordim, Koji Nakano and Yasuaki Ito, A Fast Approximate String Matching Algorithm on GPU), December 2015.