Awards

2024.11: MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 from Japan by MIT Technology Review.

2024.11: NeurIPS 2024 Outstanding Reviewer (Complimentary Registration)

2024.3: Outstanding Paper Award at 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing Award

2023.12: Best Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS Instruction Workshop – Our Self-RAG paper got the best paper honorable mention.

2023.12: Best Video Award at ACL 2023 – Our Adaptive Retriever paper got the best video award based on view counts and community votes at ACL 2023.

2023.9: Microsoft Accelerate Foundation Models Research Grant – Granted USD 20,000 Azure Credit for proposal on advanced retrieval-augmented LMs as a co-PI.

2023.6: Stability Research Grants – Granted 100,000 A100 GPU hours at Stability High-performance computational clusters for Self-RAG research as a PI.

2022.10: EECS Rising Stars 2022 – Selected as a participant at EECS Rising Stars.

2022.4: 2022 IBM PhD Fellowship – Awarded the worldwide IBM PhD Fellowship (US awards: $60,000 in award year one; $35,000 in award year two).

2019.3: The Young Researcher Award of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing Awarded.

2019.2: The Dean’s Award, The Best Bachelor Thesis Award Awarded – Awarded The Dean’s Award and The Best Bachelor Thesis Award due to excellent academic performance and bachelor thesis (Rank: 1/139 at the department).

2018.11: The Nakajima Foundation Scholarship (Doctoral Study Abroad Program Fellowship) – 9% acceptance rate. Granted two years tuition up to JPY 3,000,000 per year, four years monthly stipend of JPY 200,000 and a one-off payment of JPY 500,000.

2017.7: Women Techmaker Scholarship (Google Anita Borg Scholarship) – 0.2% acceptance rate. Selected out of 25,000 applicants to receive academic scholarship from Google’s Women Techmakers Program.