Author Archives: Hiroshi Tsutsui

“Campus Clean Day” 2023

We participated in the Campus Clean-up Day held at Hokkaido University on Wednesday, May 17th. This was the first time the event had been held in four years, with the last one taking place in 2019.

2022 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Kato, Mr. Mumaki, and Mr. Kunii presented their papers at the 2022 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held online on Nov 5th-6th.

  • Reona Kumaki, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “Application of Deep Learning to Logic Functions as a Preliminary Trial of Polar Code Decoder Based on Machine Learning,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, pp. 175-176, Nov. 2022 (in Japanese).
  • Kyotaro Kunii, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “An Evaluation of the Effects of a Time-varying Environment on the LoRa Modulation-based Communication Performance,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 179, Nov. 2022 (in Japanese).
  • Shingo Kato, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “A Feasibility Study on Implementing Phrase Speech Recognition Systems Based on a CNN-LSTM Model Using a Single-board AI Computer,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, p. 217, Nov. 2022 (in Japanese).

A student networking event was held during this convention. This networking event was organized by IEEE Hokkaido University Student Branch, IEEE Muroran Institute of Technology Student Branch, and IEICE Muroran Institute of Technology Student Branch. Students from some universities in Hokkaido made their presentations. Mr. Kunii served as the MC and made a presentation as the representative of the IEEE Hokkaido university student branch.

Young Researcher Excellent Paper Presentation Award, Award Ceremony

An award ceremony for the Young Researcher Excellent Paper Presentation Award was conducted with the year-end and welcome party. The award certificate and 10,000 yen in cash as a supplementary prize were presented to Mr. Yasugi.

2021 ICN Lab’s year-end party and welcome party

On Tuesday, December 7, we held a year-end party and a welcome party for new members (four third-year students: Mr. Kota Hirai, Mr. Yuki Saito, Mr. Seunghun Jeon, and Mr. Kenshiro Tanaka) in our laboratory implementing COVID-19 infection control. The party was held after the regular meeting. The meeting and the party were held in a hybrid format of face-to-face and online. In the face-to-face party session, pizzas were served.

Young Researcher Excellent Paper Presentation Award was given to Mr. Yasugi from the 2021 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Yasugi was awarded the Young Researcher Excellent Paper Presentation Award for his presentation at 2021 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held online on Nov 6th-7th.

2021 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers

Mr. Yasugi presented his paper at 2021 Joint Convention, the Hokkaido Chapters of the Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, which was held online on Nov 6th-7th. In this paper, we presented an energy consumption evaluation of LoRa using USRP devices.

  • Takuya Yasugi, Hiroshi Tsutsui, Takeo Ohgane, “An Evaluation of Energy Consumption Under Different Spreading Factors for LoRa Modulation,” Joint Conference of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineers in Hokkaido, pp. 151-152, Nov. 2021 (in Japanese).

A student networking event was held during this convention. Students of each university made presentations about their university, research activity, and student activity. Mr. Yasugi, who is the chair of IEEE student branch at Hokkaido university introduced the activity of the student branch.

The 1st Hokkaido Young Professionals Workshop

Assoc Prof Tsutsui made a presentation entitled “Design Techniques for Wireless Communication and Image Processing IP Cores” at the 1st Hokkaido Young Professionals Workshop held at Muroran Institute of Technology. This workshop was organized by the IEEE Sapporo Section Young Professionals Affinity Group, which was established on Mar 20, 2020. In this workshop, held in a face-to-face style and online, Student Presentation Contest was also held.
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