Megumi Kaneko

Associate Professor

Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division,
National Institute of Informatics

2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku
101-8430 Tokyo, Japan

Tel: 03-4212-2235
Email: megkaneko{at}nii.ac.jp


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Education


Employment

    Nov. 2007 Assistant Professor, Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Denmark (~March 2008)

    April 2008  Post-Doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto, Japan

    September 2010 Assistant Professor, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics

    May 27-July 6 2012 Invited Professor of the Digiteo Guest Program, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

    April 2016 Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    May-June 2016 Invited Professor at ROCS group, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

Awards

    Sept. 2002~June 2004  Awarded outstanding student scholarship from Georges Besse Foundation, France

    Sept. 2009   11th Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2009

    Dec. 2009   IEEE Globecom Best Paper Award

    March 2011   10th Funai Young Researcher's Award

    Oct. 2011   WPMC 2011 Best Paper Award

    March 2012   27th Telecom System Technology Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Japan,
    for the paper "Uplink Contention-based CSI Feedback with Prioritized Layers for a Multi-Carrier System", IEEE Trans. on Wirel. Comm., vol.10, no.12, Dec. 2011

    Sept. 2018  IEICE Communications Society, Distinguished Contributions Award

    April 2019  The Young Scientists’ Prize, from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan

    Dec. 2020  IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award

    Sept. 2021  KDDI Foundation Contributions Award

Grants and Projects

    Oct. 2004~Oct. 2007 Ph.D. grant no. 562/06-8-24690 from Aalborg University

    April 2011~March 2015 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 23760334 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan

    April 2013~March 2015 JSPS/MAE Japan-France Bilateral Joint Research Project, Eco-HetNet: Cross-Layer Protocol Design for Eco-Friendly Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (with Dr. Lila Boukhatem from LRI, Paris-Sud University)

    April 2014~March 2018 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 26820143 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan

    Jan. 2017~Dec. 2019 CNRS PICS (Projet International de Coopération Scientifique) Grant

    April 2017~March 2018 NII Collaboration Research Grant, “Optimized radio access protocols for energy harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks using Graph Signal Processing”

    April 2017~March 2020 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 17K06453 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan

    April 2018~March 2019 NII Collaboration Research Grant, “Nonlinear Conic Optimization for Energy/Spectrum-Efficient Radio Resource Allocation and Signal Processing in 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks” (with Dr. Ellen Hidemi Fukuda, Kyoto University)

    June 2018~March 2021 NTT Collaboration Research Project “Machine learning-based methods for distributed wireless environment prediction”, NTT Corporation

    April 2019~March 2020 NII Collaboration Research Grant, “Robust Nonlinear Optimization for Efficient Resource Utilization in Future Radio Access Networks with Channel Uncertainties” (with Dr. Ellen Hidemi Fukuda, Kyoto University)


Student's Awards

    2011 Mr. Hirofumi Yamaura (M1): IEEE VTS Japan Chapter VTC2011-Fall Young Researcher's Encouragement Award for the paper:
    H. Yamaura, M. Kaneko, K. Hayashi and S. Sakai, "Superposition Coding Scheme with Discrete Adaptive Modulation for Wireless Relay Systems", in IEEE VTC-Fall 2011, San Francisco, CA, September 2011

    2015 Mr. Takuya Kamenosono (M2): IEEE VTS Japan Chapter VTC2015-Spring Young Researcher's Encouragement Award for the paper:
    T. Kamenosono, M. Kaneko, K. Hayashi and M. Sakai, "Compressed Sensing-based Channel Estimation Methods for LTE-Advanced Multi-User Downlink MIMO System", in IEEE VTC-Spring 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, May 2015

    2016 Mr. Qisheng Dong (M2): IEICE Communication Quality Conference, CQ Workshop, Best Research Contributions Award for the paper:
    Q. Dong, K. Hayashi, M. Kaneko, “An Adaptive Modulation and Coding scheme for Communication-Based Train control systems using WLAN”

    2016 Mr. Ryota Katsuki (M1): IEICE Communication Quality Conference, CQ Students’ Workshop, Best Research Contributions Award for the paper:
    R. Katsuki, M. Kaneko, K. Hayashi, “A Study on beamforming methods in Cloud Radio Access Networks with fronthaul link constraints ”
2020 Miss Thi Ha Ly Dinh (D2): IEICE Network Systems Conference, English Session Best Paper Award for:
“Deep Reinforcement Learning-based User-to-Multiple Access Points Association Method for Heterogeneous Quality of Service Provision”