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D3 Student Yonekura’s Three-Month Research Stay at the University of Bamberg, Germany

A research presentation by Assistant Professor Amano at the 120th IPSJ SIG-MBL Workshop (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka)

On September 25, 2026, two October-entry master's students graduated. Congratulations!

Research presentations by Specially Appointed Researcher Aidana Baimbetova and D2 student Yuki Maekawa at IEEE ITSC 2026 (Naples, Italy)

Satellite and space research presentations by M1 student Sodai Joshin and Associate Professor Hamada Rizk at ICAS 2026 (Sydney, Australia)

Research presentations by Visiting Researcher Hiroki Kudo and Associate Professor Hamada Rizk at IEEE SWC 2026 (Rende, Italy)

5 research presentations at IWCS 2026 (Kuju, Oita)

We held Yamaguchi Laboratory (Formerly Higashino Laboratory) Alumni Party

A student from Technische Universität München (TUM) joined the Yamaguchi Laboratory through the FrontierLab program.

Two students from Associate Professor Luca Bedogni’s research group spent three months in the Yamaguchi Laboratory.

A research presentation by M2 student Hiroya Nakata at the IEICE CS workshop (Kumejima, Okinawa)

2 research presentations and talks at the JST special session at IEEE COMPSAC 2026 (Madrid, Spain)

4 research presentations at IEEE MDM 2026 (Athens, Greece)

5 research presentations and 1 award at the DICOMO2026 Symposium (Munakata, Fukuoka)

Poster Presentations at ISC High Performance 2026

A research presentation by M1 student Ying Chieh Wang at IEEE SMARTCOMP 2026 (Messina, Italy)

Professor Hirozumi Yamaguchi gave a presentation at the 6th Research Exchange Meeting of the Graduate Schools of Human Sciences and Information Science and Technology

Associate Professor Hamada delivered a research presentation and panel talk at the Afretech Event.

Four poster presentations at the Cross-Field Research Association of Human-centered Cyber Lifeline (HCL workshop)

Participation in the 2nd ASEAN-NEXUS Early Career Researchers (ECRs) Conclave, a seminar for early-career researchers under the Japan-ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Platform Program (NEXUS)

Prof. Mario A. Nascimento gave a special lecture in the Mobile Computing class.

We hosted a research exchange meeting with Professor YoungTae Noh’s and Kyungsik Han's group from Hanyang University, Korea.

6 research presentations and 2 awards at the DPS/MBL/ITS/SeMI joint workshop held in Miyakojima, Okinawa in May

We held a welcome BBQ party for incoming students in 2026.

Lab tour held for 3rd and 4th year students of the Department of Information Science.

Congratulations on your graduation!

6 research presentations (1 main track, 5 workshops), 2 workshop keynotes, and a panel appearance at IEEE PerCom 2026

Associate Professor Uchiyama and Assistant Professor Jin gave presentations at the 2026 IEICE General Conference held at Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka.

A research presentation on formation flight control was given at an organized session on ROS at SICE MSCS 2026, held in Toyama.

M1 Yano and M2 Maruyama gave two poster presentations at IPSJ SIG-ITS Research Forum 2026 held at Taisho University, Tokyo.

Ouyang and Prof. Yamaguchi gave two oral presentations at the 118th MBL / 89th UBI / SeMI Joint Workshop held at Satellite Campus Hiroshima.

A student from the University of California, Berkeley joined the Yamaguchi Laboratory through the FrontierLab program.

The 2025 academic year's master's thesis presentations were held on February 9, and the undergraduate thesis presentations were held on February 16.

Conducted a Pilot Experiment on AI-Based Evacuation Guidance Drill Using a Smartphone App and TV Integration in Suma Ward, Kobe.

Three poster presentations were given at SCA/HPCAsia 2026 held at Osaka International Convention Center.

D1 Ozeki presented at the ASTAD workshop held within AAAI2026 in Singapore.

B4 Yamakubo presented at the SeMI Research Symposium held in Yufu, Oita.

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk delivered an invited talk virtually at Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

16 presentations and 2 awards at ICDCN 2026 held in Nara, Japan (January 2026)

Prof. Martin Serrano from the University of Galway talked about AIoT.

We held a year-end party in our lab.

M2 Jiang, M2 Hirano, and M1 Tengis presented their research at IEEE AIoT2025.

Research presentation and panel discussion at SIG-CSS during the JSAI Joint Research Meeting 2025 (SIGAIs 2025).

M2 Maruyama, M1 Yano, and M1 Nakata presented their research at the 117th MBL / 103rd ITS Joint Workshop, with two papers receiving awards.

A research presentation on "High-Precision Satellite Formation Flying Technology" funded by JAXA Space Strategy Fund was given at the 69th Space Sciences and Technology Conference held in Sapporo.

Prof. Hirozumi Yamaguchi delivered a keynote on sensing and AI for future education at ICEEL2025

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk delivered an invited talk at the Systems & Information Division of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers(SSI2025)

<p>M1 Takao and others presented demos at the 33rd DPSWS.</p>

Research Presentations and Awards in ACM SIGSPATIAL2025 at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk delivered a lecture talk at Civil Flight Aviation University of China in Guanghan. Sichuan.

Oral Research Presentation at WiMob2025

Two research presentations at IEEE VTC-Fall2025

Research presentation on bird counting using mmWave radar at ICECCME2025 in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Prof. Yamaguchi gave a presentation on next-generation computing at the CEATEC 2025 conference held at Makuhari Messe.

Poster Presentations at UbiComp / ISWC 2025

Outreach Presentation at RIKEN Open Day 2025 in Kobe

We held a sushi party to celebrate all B4 students successful entrance to the graduate program and completion of job hunting.

On September 25, 2025, two autumn-entry master's students graduated. Congratulations!

D1 Ozeki and D2 Yonekura were adopted to JST ACT-X 'Cyber Infrastructure for AI Symbiotic Society' program

D2 student Liu presented research at IPSJ MBL/UBI/CDS/ASD Joint Conference

Four research presentations at ICMU2025, with Best Paper Candidate award

JST BOOST Fellow Student Yonekura makes a poster presentation

Research Presentation at IEEE PIMRC2025 Workshop

A student from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology joined the Yamaguchi Laboratory.

Organizing, keynotes, and research presentations at SSTD2025

We held Yamaguchi Laboratory (Formerly Higashino Laboratory) Alumni Party

Research Presentation at workshop UrbComp2025 held in conjunction with KDD2025

Associate Professor Hamada delivered a keynote speech at the International Symposium on AI in Medicine and AI Summer School at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

M1 Students Nakata and Takao Presented Research at IEICE Technical Conference on Communication Systems Workshop; Both Received Chair's Best Awards

Participation in the International High-Performance Computing Summer School 2025 held in Lisbon, Portugal

Associate Professor Hamada delivered a keynote speech about AI for Climate-Resilient Urban Systems at Dies Academicus 2025 at HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany.

3 Research Presentations at DICOMO2025 Symposium

Research Presentation at the international conference IE2025.

Liu, D2 student, presented his research at the international conference IEEE IV2025 held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

During SmartComp2025, which took place from June 16th to 19th in Cork, Ireland, several research presentations were conducted.

M2 Student Maruyama has presented his research at EuCNC & 6G Summit

Associate Professor Hamada delivered a keynote speech on underwater sensing and AI technologies for combating waterborne diseases at the Afretech Event (Kigali, Rwanda).

We presented two research papers on E-Scooter safety assistance and robot navigation at the DPS/MBL/ITS Joint Workshop held in Nago, Okinawa.

Keynote talk at ICEENG2025

We held a welcome BBQ for new students at  Nishinakajima BBQ Area.

Exhibited AI evacuation research and joined a disaster prevention panel (Resilience Session 2025)

We held a takoyaki party to welcome four newly assigned undergraduate students

A paper by Riki Ukyo (Ph.D. graduate, 2024) has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Lab tour held for 3rd and 4th year students of the Department of Information Science.

Laboratory Introduction for students in 2025.

Welcoming new members for AY 2025, we held a meeting and get-together.

Congratulations on the students' graduation!

4 research presentations at PerCom2025, organizing PerVehicle Workshop, winning an award, and presenting a panel talk.

Research Presentations are delivered by M1 Yoshizaki and Research student Tengis at the 202nd SIG-DPS of IPSJ

Research Presentation by Tengis at the 87th National Convention of IPSJ

B4 Shima delivered oral presentation at 100th IPSJ-ITS

Poster Presentations at SuperComputing Asia2025

Undergraduate Students Nakata and Takao Presented Research at IEICE Technical Conference on Communication Systems Workshop; Both Received Chair's Best Awards

We invited foreign researchers and discussed the smart city and its projects.

Participated in the North America Training Program organized by the Next Generation Researcher Development Project

Conducted a Pilot Experiment on AI-Based Evacuation Guidance Drill Using a Smartphone App and TV Integration in Nada and Chuo Wards, Kobe.

The 2024 academic year's undergraduate and master's thesis presentation sessions were held on February 13 and February 7, respectively.

We held a year-end party in our lab.

Assistant Professor Amano Gave Invited Talk at SIG-DOCMAS during JSAI Joint Research Meeting 2024

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk visits the University of New South Wales (UNSW)

First-year Master's student Yui Maruyama presented research at IEEE SECON 2024

Two Research Presentations at EAI MobiQuitous 2024 in Oslo, Best Paper Award Received

A Lab Outing for Bowling & BBQ

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk delivered a lecture at the 130th Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting.

A joint workshop involving MBL and ITS will feature two research presentations in WiP sessions, and WiP Award Received

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk's team won a gold medal at the ACM SIGSPATIAL Student Research Competition.

M1 Nakao to Present at DPS Workshop

Research presentations and organizing GeoPrivacy Workshop at ACM SIGSPATIAL2024.

On October 25th, Associate Professor Hamada Rizk attended the JST Intermediate Evaluation Meeting for the AIP Challenge 2024,

M2 Student Doyoon Presents at IEEE ITSC 2024 in Edmonton, Canada

D3 Student Tanaka Presents Research at IEEE MASS 2024 Conference

Presentations for Lunch Seminar at IST

Announcement of the Yamaguchi Laboratory (Formerly the Higashino Laboratory) Alumni Association Meeting

NSF-JST Workshop on "Secure and Resilient Smart Living CPS" was held on July 2-3, 2024, in Osaka, Japan.

International Conference IEEE SmartComp 2024: One Research Presentation and Tutorial Talk

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Hamada Rizk recently participated in the IEEE Mobile Data Management Conference held in Brussels, Belgium.

6 Research Presentations and 1 Award at DICOMO2024 Symposium

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk recently conducted a research visit to the Department of Communication Engineering at Bremen University

Tutorial Talk about "Sensing, Recognition, and Tracking" at Intelligent Environments 2024(Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Three research presentations and Best Short Paper Award at IE2024

Prof. Christine Bassem from Wellesley College talked about Mobility Coordination.

Laboratory exhibition, five poster presentations, and participating in SIGMOBILE’s student outreach program(ASSET) at ACM Mobisys2024.(Receive a People's Choice Award for Best Poster)

Prof. Stefan Fischer from the University of Lubeck talked about the Internet of Bio-Nano Things (IoBNT).

Presentation at the 38th National Conference of the Artificial Intelligence Society, Special Session, 2024

Associate Professor Hamada Rizk participated in the IEEE Activity and Behavior Computing (ABC) conference

A joint workshop involving DPS, MBL, ITS, and SeMI will feature seven research presentations and won awards.

We held a welcome BBQ for new students at Expo Commemoration Park.

Prof. Daniela Nicklas gave a special lecture in the Mobile Computing class.

We held a welcome party for the newcomers!

Laboratory Introduction for students.

B4 student Nakao won the Academic Excellence Award from the Department of Engineering Science.

A research presentation at the 198th SIG-DPS of IPSJ

Two research presentations at the 86th National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan(IPSJ)

Four Presentations at IEEE PerCom 2024, Including Main Conference (Short) and Workshops

Prof. Hamada Rizk have participated in IST Retreat.

Two oral presentations at IPSJ SIG-MBL from D2 Fukuharu Tanaka and M1 Sakamoto

A student from the University of California, San Diego joined the Yamaguchi Laboratory through the OUSSEP program.

2023年度の特別研究報告会（卒業研究発表会）・修士論文発表が2月8日・2月14日にそれぞれ行われました．

Two Poster Presentations at the SeMI Research Symposium

We held a year-end party in our lab.

Presentation at ICCTA 2023

Demonstration in Wakayama Castle Park of the operation of various types of mobility and circulation measures

Prof. Akihito Hiromori, Prof. Hamada Rizk, and M2 student Ren Ozeki participated in IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and presented two papers.

From Nov. 30th to Dec. 4th, 2023, the X-Metaverse System will be showcased in a demo exhibition at The LAB, Grand Front Osaka.

Yamada, a second-year master's student (M2), presented orally at EAI MobiQuitous 2023

Two oral presentations at IPSJ SIG-MBL(Receive two awards)

At ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023, M2 student Ozeki gave a poster presentation and an oral presentation, and received the Best Poster Award.

The successful conclusion of the "1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geo-Privacy and Data Utility for Smart Societies," held on November 13th, 2023, in the beautiful city of Hamburg, Germany.

Prof. Hamada Rizk has taken the stage to present an innovative approach to indoor localization at the GeoIndustry workshop in conjunction with the ACM Sigspatial conference.

Three Presentations and TwoAward at DPSWS2023 Held in Amaharashi Onsen, Toyama Prefecture(Receive two awards)

A mobile computing workshop was held at Biwako Grand Hotel on October 14th.

Presentation of research at the international conference Ubicomp-ISWC 2023 in Cancun, Mexico

 At IEEE ITSC2023 held in Bilbao, Spain, Ukyo D2 Student, gave a research presentation.

1st JST CREST Workshop on Smart City Data and Platforms, held on September 23rd-24th at Hurghada, Egypt.

Prof. Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Prof. Akira Uchiyama, and Prof. Hamada Rizk, were invited to share their visionary insights as keynote speakers at the inaugural workshop on 'Sensing and Intelligence for Smart Societies.'

Specifically Appointed Associate Professor Hamada Rizk Delivers Talk at FIT2023

A student from the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong, joined the Yamaguchi Laboratory through the OUSSEP program.

Multiple research oral presentations and one award at DICOMO2023(Receive an award)

Regular paper, Short paper, Demonstration Presentations, and Panel talks at the MDM2023

Research Presentation and Best Short Paper Award at the international conference IE2023.

During SmartComp2023, which took place from June 26th to 29th in Nashville, United States, a research presentation was conducted.

On June 18th, M1 Sugimoto gave an oral presentation at the MobiSys2023 workshop.

Research presentations at IPSJ SIG-MBL, OIST (Okinawa)

We held a BBQ to welcome new members!!

Human Flow Measurement Pilot with HULIX Co., Ltd. Featured in Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Publication

4 presentations at PerCom2023 (CORE A* conf.) (include Main Conference)

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor Hamada Rizk was awarded IEEE JAPAN MEDAL

Student Research Competition and Poster presentation, and second-runner-up Award at the renowned international conference ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022

Research presentation and tutorial talk at IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things

One poster presentation and two research demonstrations at DPSWS2022 (Domestic Conference).

Demonstration presentation and Best Demo Award at the renowned international conference MobiCom2022

Two oral presentations at WiMob2022 in Thessaloniki, Greece

One research presentation and FIT Funai Best Paper Award at FIT2022

5 Research presentations at the DICOMO 2022, Domestic Symposium

Three research presentations at IEEE IE2022

We presented several papers at the DPS/MBL/ITS Joint Workshop held at the Chatan, Okinawa, Japan.

研究室配属前の学部生向けに山口研究室を紹介します。

Society5.0に関わるシンポジウムで複数の発表

Three oral presentations will be given at the International conference IEEE PerCom 2022 in the form of demo presentations and workshops.

Congratulations on your graduation！

Two research presentations at the National Convention of Information Processing Society of Japan

2021 Graduation Thesis Presentation was held.

On February 11, the master's thesis presentation for the 2021 academic year was held.

Two research presentations were given at the SeMI workshop in Nozawa, Nagano.

Research was presented at the 101st IPSJ SIG Mobile computing and smart society system

山口研・HULIX共同でなんば駅前で実証実験を実施（関テレ・朝日放送で報道）

D3 student Yoshikawa presented his research in the international conference ICMU2021.

Two oral and one poster presentations were given at the 29th DPSWS2021.

Multiple research presentations at the Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative and Mobile (DICOMO) Symposium 2021

第99回MBL研究会で3件の研究発表（1件の受賞）

Yamaguchi , Mobile Computing Lab., has started!