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Kohtaro Asai, Ph.D. (IEEE Fellow), of the Research & Development Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Consumer Technology Society Significant Achievement Award by the IEEE Consumer Technology Society.This award recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions in the field of consumer technology. Dr. Asai was honored for his contributions to video coding algorithms, their implementation, and international standardization.

Toru Takahashi of Mitsubishi Electric’s Information Technology R&D Center and Michael J. Jones of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) have been elevated to IEEE Fellow, the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional society in the fields of electrical, electronics, and information and communication engineering.

From December 1-5, 2025, at AWS re:Invent 2025 in Las Vegas, USA, teams that included researchers from Mitsubishi Electric secured first and third place. This achievement was highly regarded on the global stage for the teams' ability to solve problems in environments close to real-world operations.

AWS re:Invent is one of the world's largest cloud conferences, attracting roughly 60,000 attendees. GameDay is a hands on competition in which teams respond to outages, attacks, and other incidents in real AWS environments within a time limit. High placements in GameDay are an indicator of practical strength in cloud operations.

These results objectively demonstrate our engineers' high level of practical skills in cloud operations, security design, incident response, automation, and monitoring.