After a highly competitive selection process, we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 IEEE Sapporo Young Professionals Awards.

Winner of 2021 IEEE Sapporo Young Professionals Best Researcher Award:

Dr. Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology

Winner of 2021 IEEE Sapporo Young Professionals Best Paper Award:

Dr. Keisuke Maeda, Hokkaido University

K. Maeda, S. Takahashi, T. Ogawa and M. Haseyama, “Estimation of Deterioration Levels of Transmission Towers via Deep Learning Maximizing Canonical Correlation Between Heterogeneous Features,” in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 633-644, Aug. 2018, doi: 10.1109/JSTSP.2018.2849593.

Congratulations to the winners!