For pioneering a nd outstanding research in high-performance microprocessor architectures, especially involving instruction level parallelism, superscalar processor design, and high accuracy branch prediction

For pioneering and significant contributions to the development of the high performance computers, including the world's fastest supercomputers, “Earth Simulator”and“K computer”

For pioneering research and leading contributions in the field of lasers and nonlinear optics

Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL): Its invention and leading research that led to the creation of new photonics field, particularly in high-speed interconnects and sensing

For pioneering research and application of fundamental techniques of deep learning in artificial intelligence

For outstanding contributions to advanced cancer research, such as whole-genome sequencing, through the utilization of supercomputers

For the invention of innovative imaging techniques and their widespread use in digital photography and computer vision

For significant contribution to the research and development of non-visual user interfaces, and to the realization of information accessibility

For Pioneering contributions in the research and development of wireless LAN technologies

For enormous contributions to the fundamental research in computer network modeling and performance evaluation, and to their spread and promotion

Seminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education

The proposal of the basic technology for an analog to digital converter recently being most widely utilized and the pioneering research in a variety of signal processing for image coding, and the outstanding contributions to the development and dissemination of information and telecommunications engineering