Published 'Deep Swarm and Evolution for Generative Artificial Intelligence' (CRC Press, 2025)
Recipient of the 25th Ohkawa Publication Prize (2016) for the book 'Evolutionary Computation and Deep Learning: Emergent Intelligence'
Supervised numerous student presentations at premier international conferences including GECCO, CEC, WCCI, IIAI, AAI, SMC, and CyberSciTech
Mentored students to win multiple Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (e.g., IIAI2025, CyberSciTech 2024, AAI2023, AAI2021)
Advised IEEE Young Researcher Award recipients: Feng Ji (2017) and Takahiro Horiba (2018)
In 2023, supervised Liu Zhen to win the 'Industrial Application Special Award' (single-objective) and 'Runner-up Top Award' (multi-objective) at the Evolutionary Computation Symposium Competition
In 2024, supervised Kazuki Harada to receive the Outstanding Thesis Award from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, University of Tokyo