Awards & Honors 

Seine A. Shintani

1. August 2026: Grand Prize, T-GEx Retreat 2026, for the proposal “Before a Fall: Gently Noticing the Signs”. Joint Team C award. Awardees: Seine A. Shintani, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yuki Tomonari, Yusuke Nozaki, Shun Okuhara, and Kohei Honda. Shintani led the integration of the proposal and delivered the final presentation. Organizer: Tokai Pathways to Global Excellence (T-GEx).

2. August 2026: Hoyu Prize, T-GEx Retreat 2026, for the proposal “Before a Fall: Gently Noticing the Signs”. Joint Team C award. Awardees: Seine A. Shintani, Masayuki Yamamoto, Yuki Tomonari, Yusuke Nozaki, Shun Okuhara, and Kohei Honda. Shintani led the integration of the proposal and delivered the final presentation. Awarded by Hoyu Co., Ltd.

3. Jun, 2026: Kaggle Silver Medal, NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge, LoRA-adapter submission for structured reasoning with NVIDIA Nemotron open models, Kaggle / NVIDIA

4. May, 2026: 1st Place, PestCLEF @ LifeCLEF 2026 Final Private Leaderboard, Knowledge-graph extraction system for plant pest and disease information, LifeCLEF / CLEF / PestCLEF Organizers

5. Jan 2026: Mescius DX Award, Qiita Advent Calendar 2025 Present Campaign. Seine A. Shintani. Awarded by: Mescius, Inc. (sponsor of Qiita Advent Calendar 2025).

6. December 2024   Manabi DX Quest – Excellence Award & Class Community Contribution Award, Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

7. December 2024   Manabi DX Quest – Excellence Award & PBL Excellence Award, Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

8. December 2024   T‑GEx Retreat Camp 2024 – Best Short Presentation (“Future Society” Session), “Developing Devices that Go Beyond Treatment and Prevention to Enhance the Human Body”, Recipients: Seine A. Shintani, Naoki Azuma, Shohei Ikichi, Organizer: T‑GEx (Global Trailblazer Development Program)

9. October 2024   Runner‑up, NIBB AI‑Biology Ideathon, “Building the Next‑Generation Biological Encyclopedia 3.0 via AI and Multi‑View Image Integration”, Organizer: National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB)

10. December 2023   18th Wakashachi Encouragement Award – Grand Prize, Basic Science Division, “Elucidating Intracellular Molecular Dynamics in Cardiomyocytes by Live Electron Microscopy”, Organizers: Aichi Prefecture / Science & Technology Exchange Foundation / Hibi Science & Technology Promotion Foundation

11. November 2023   Evident Award – 61st Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society of Japan (Industry Pitch Contest), Organizers: Evident Co., Leave‑a‑Nest Co., Biophysical Society of Japan

12. January 2023   Inno‑β Certification – “Inno‑vation” Program (Strategic ICT R&D Promotion Project), Organizer: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan

13. December 2022   Outstanding Poster Award – 29th Annual Meeting, Japanese Society for Chronobiology, Organizer: Japanese Society for Chronobiology

14. September 2022   Inoka Award – 60th Annual Meeting, Biophysical Society of Japan (Industry Pitch Contest), Organizers: Leave‑a‑Nest Co., Biophysical Society of Japan

15. February 2022   AI Quest – Excellence Award & Overall Excellence (Term 2), Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

16. February 2022   AI Quest – Excellence Award & AI Task Excellence (Term 2), Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

17. December 2021   Inno‑vation Program “Disruptive Challenge Division” – Disruptive Challenger, Organizer: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan

18. November 2021   Inno‑vation Program “Disruptive Challenge Division” – Challenger, Organizer: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan

19. November 2021   AI Quest – Excellence Award & AI Task Excellence (Term 1), Organizer: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

20. July 2017   4th Biophysics & Physicobiology Editors’ Choice Award, Koutaro Nakagome, Katsuhiko Sato, Seine A. Shintani, Shin’ichi Ishiwata, Awarded by the Editorial Office of Biophysics & Physicobiology

21. November 2016   Outstanding Poster Award – 23rd Annual Meeting, Japanese Society for Chronobiology, Organizer: Japanese Society for Chronobiology