Profile

Megumi Kaneko
Professor
Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

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

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

Memberships

IEEE Senior Member (Societies: IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Signal Processing)
IEICE Member
ACM Member

Committees

Member of the Advisory Board for Promoting Science and Technology Diplomacy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MOFA)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters
Associate Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Communications (2017~2022)
Lead Track co-chair, “Applications of AI and Machine Learning”, IEEE VTC-Spring 2020, Antwerpen, Belgium
TPC Symposium co-chair, “Wireless and Mobile Networks”, IEE ISNCC 2020, Montréal, Canada

Education

June 2004

Diplôme d’ingénieur, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris （French Grande Ecole）

June 2004

Master of Science, Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Denmark

Jan. – June 2007

Research assistant, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, Japan (Study abroad)

Dec. 2007

Ph.D. in Wireless Communications Engineering, Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Denmark
Title: Wireless Multi-Carrier Systems: Resource Allocation, Scheduling and Relaying

May 2017

HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) in Informatics, Université Paris-Saclay/Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Title: Optimizing Radio Resource Utilization and Exploiting Interference in Future Wireless Access Networks
Assessment Committee:

Prof. Mérouane Debbah (President of Jury & Examinator), Centrale Supélec and Director of Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab France Research Center, Huawei, France -Prof. David Gesbert (Reviewer), Eurecom, France
Prof. Catherine Rosenberg (Reviewer), University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. Yutaka Takahashi (Reviewer), Kyoto University, Japan
Dr. Mythri Hunukumbure (Examinator), Samsung R&D Institute, UK
Prof. Khaldoun Al Agha (Examinator), CEO Green Communications, France　
Prof. Steven Martin (Examinator), University Paris-Sud, France

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
April 2024: Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

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
Jan. 2023: Best Paper Runner-Up Award (2nd over 271, top 0.7%), “Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Uplink Power Control in Cell-Free Massive MIMO”, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC) 2023
April 2024: Distinguished TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2023 (Core Rank A*)

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 (PI)
April 2013 – March 2015: JSPS/MAE Japan-France Bilateral Joint Research Project, Eco-HetNet: Cross-Layer Protocol Design for Eco-Friendly Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (JP side PI, FR side PI: 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 (PI)
Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2019: CNRS PICS (Projet International de Coopération Scientifique) Grant “Renewable energy-aware NOMA-based radio resource allocation for cloud-assisted future wireless access networks” (JP side PI, FR side PI: Dr. Lila Boukhatem from LRI, Paris-Saclay University)
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 2023: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 17K06453 from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan, “Non-Orthogonal Resource Allocation in 5G Cloud Radio Access Networks” (PI)
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 (PI)
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)
April 2020 - June 2024: JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) no. 20H00592, “Researches on Model-aided Learning Approaches for Reliable Realtime Control in Future Wireless Systems” (Research Collaborator, PI: Prof. Yusheng Ji, NII)
June 2021 – March 2024: NTT Collaboration Research Project “Optimized Multi-Connectivity and Resource Utilization for High Reliability Wireless Communications”, NTT Corporation (PI)
Oct. 2022 - March 2027: JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) no. 22KK0156, “Energy and Radio Resource Efficiency Optimization for 6G Smart IoT Communications” (PI)
Dec. 2023 - Nov. 2027: JST (Japan) / ANR (France) SICORP Edge AI no. JPMJSC2304, “LIGHTweight edge artificial intelligence for Sensing and WIreless communications in connected FacTories (LIGHT-SWIFT)”, (JP side PI, FR side PI: Prof. Olivier Berder, CNRS IRISA, with industrial partners NTT and Wavely)
Feb. 2024 - March 2029: JST ASPIRE for Top Teams no. JPMJAP2325, “Open Digital Infrastructure through the Convergence of Telecommunications and AI” (Principal Collaborator, PI: Prof. Esaki, Univ. of Tokyo)

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”