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Yusaku Nakajima received the "Ha" Award of the "Kakusei Project" by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which honors alumni from past cohorts for their remarkable achievements after the program.

The meeting of the Applied Physics Alumni Association was held. Yuto Yotsumoto received the Poster Award at the student poster session.

Hitoha Sato received the 3rd Prize in the AI4X – Accelerate Conference 2026 Poster Presentation Competition.

Each of Yusei Ito, Yuto Yotsumoto, Yuki Nishihori, Takuya Miyajima, and Hitoha Sato presented a poster at the AI4X – Accelerate Conference 2026, a conference on AI-accelerated scientific discovery held in Singapore.

Prof. Ono presented his invited talk at the 2026 Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy.

Prof. Ono presented his invited talk at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Microscopy.

Our new paper on decomposing multi-phase X-ray diffraction patterns into single-phase patterns using generative deep learning has been published.

Yusaku Nakajima was selected for the NEDO Entrepreneurs Program (NEP).

Yusaku Nakajima contributed a review article on quantification and autonomization of powder processes in materials science to Experimental Medicine (Jikken Igaku), May 2026 issue.

Yusaku Nakajima's research and career path appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

Lab members updated.

Noritoshi Takagaki received the Kusumoto Award, which honors the most outstanding graduate in each department of the University of Osaka.

Hitoha Sato received the SICE Student Award from the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.

Each of Shuta Nakao and Kai Kawasaki gave an oral and a poster presentation at JSAP Spring Meeting 2026.

Prof. Ono presented his invited talk at the APS Global Physics Summit, one of the largest international conferences in physics.

Noritoshi Takagaki received Kogakusho award that honors top-performing students in the Faculty of Engineering.

Takuya Miyajima received AICE Award 2025.

Shuta Nakao gave a presentation at the Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research (JSSRR).

An interview with Yusaku Nakajima has been published on the School of Engineering website for prospective students.

Yusaku Nakajima gave a presentation at Boston Japanese Researchers Forum.

Kai Kawasaki, Yuto Yotsumoto, Misaki Mashimo, and Takuya Miyajima gave poster presentations at Pacifichem 2025.

Prof. Ono presented his invited talk at MRM2025 (Materials Research Meeting).

Ryusei Takamoto conducted a demonstration at the 3rd AI Robot-Driven Science Symposium.

Prof. Ono was featured in a relay interview for the TAURO Project (Moonshot R&D Program).

Takuya Miyajima gave a presentation at the Laboratory Automation Monthly Workshops / 2025.10.

Yuto Yotsumoto presented his work at MEEP Seminar.

Shuta Nakao gave a presentation at the 190th ISIJ.

Yusaku Nakajima gave an invited talk at the 38th Fall Meeting of the Ceramic Society of Japan.

Yusaku Nakajima gave an invited talk at a workshop of IIBMP 2025.

Yusaku Nakajima gave a presentation at RSJ2025.

Our automated experimental system and data analysis approach using mdx has been featured as a use case of mdx.

We have been conducting a hands-on course for high school students working on robotic scooping of powder samples under Osaka University SEEDS Program.

Yusaku Nakajima (D3), Misaki Mashimo (M1), and Takuya Miyajima (M1) gave poster presentations at the Accelerate Conference 2025.

Prof. Ono gave a sample lecture on future scientific experiments using AI and robotics during the School of Engineering’s campus visit day at Osaka University.

Yuto Yotsumoto's research, titled "Development of an Automated, Knowledge-Based System for Crystal Phase Identificaion to Advance Materials Research," has been selected for the "Kakusei Project" by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).

Yuto Yotsumoto's short review on automation system for powder X-ray diffraction experiments appeared in JSAE Engine Review.

Our research on contrastive learning method linking crystal structures and textual descriptions of material properties was published.

The meeting of the Osaka University Applied Physics Alumni Association was held. Yusaku Nakajima received the Poster Award at the student poster session.

Yasuo Takeichi moved to High Energy Accelerator Research Organization.

Yusaku Nakajima presented his work at 6th seminar of the Digital Laboratory Consortium.

Yusei Ito presented his poster at ICLR 2025, and Yuki Nishihori at the satellite meeting AI4Mat.

Our research on optimal spectroscopic measurement design based on the spectral probability distribution generated from a database was published.

Lab members updated.

Misaki Mashimo gave an oral presentation at JSAP Spring Meeting 2025.

Yuki Nishihori received Kogakusho award that honors top-performing students in the Faculty of Engineering.

Yuto Yotsumoto received AICE Award 2024.

Yusaku Nakajima received the Poster Award at the QLEAR Fellowship Researcher Exchange Workshop 2024.

Yusei Ito's work, titled "Rethinking the role of frames for SE(3)-invariant crystal structure modeling" has been accepted to ICLR 2025, a leading conference in machine learning.

Each of Yusaku Nakajima, Yusei Ito, and Yuto Yotsumoto presented his poster at the AI for Accelerated Materials Discovery (AI4Mat) Workshop @NeurIPS 2024.

We conducted a one-day hands-on course for high school students working on robotic scooping of powder samples under Osaka University SEEDS Program.

Our activity on robotic controll of mechanochemical synthesis appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

Each of Yusaku Nakajima and Kai Kawasaki presented his poster at 14th CSJ Chemistry Festa 2024. Nakajima received the poster award for his presentation.

Our work on robotic automation of powder X-ray diffraction experiment that enables efficient and reproducible materials characterization was published.

Our research on fast clustering of massive spectral data based on the spectral database was published.

Each of Yusaku Nakajima, Ryusei Takamoto, Kai Kawasaki, Yuki Nishihori, and Takuya Miyajima gave an oral presentation at JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024.

Our research on force-controlled robotic powder grinding that can alter the reaction pathway and rate of mechanochemical synthesis was published.

Yusei Ito gave oral and poster presentations and Yasuo Takeichi gave a poster presentation at XRM2024.

The activity of Ono Lab. was presented at the campus visit day of the School of Engineering, Osaka Univ.

Each of Yusaku Nakajima, Ryusei Takamoto, and Yuto Yotsumoto presented his poster at the Workshop in ICRA 2024. Nakajima received the Contributed Demo Award for demonstration of our powder-grinding robot.

Lab members updated.

Our research analytically formulating the energy loss due to magnetostriction in soft magnetic materials was published.

Each of Yusei Ito and Yuto Yotsumoto gave an oral presentation at JSAP Spring Meeting 2024.

Our paper describing excess core loss of soft magnetic materials by magnetostriction was published.

Our activity on laboratory automation appeared in the website of KSAC.

Our activity on spectral classification based on database and noise amount appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

Our activity on crystal structure encoding for efficient and interpretable prediction of physical properties appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

Yusei Ito gave his oral presentation at JSSRR 2023 and received the Student Presentation Award.

Yusaku Nakajima gave a demonstration of our robotic powder grinding at the JST-MIRAI 2nd Debriefing Session.

Our work on neural structure fields (NeSF) representing a crystal structure for neural network was published.

Prof. Ono presented his invited talk at the 68th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM2023).

Yusaku Nakajima presented his contributed talk in IROS 2023, one of the largest and most impacting robotics research conferences.

Each of Prof. Ono, Yusaku Nakajima, and Yusei Ito presented his invited/oral presentation at the 84th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2023.

Prof. Ono presented his keynote talk at the 2023 Fall Meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials.

We hosted Young Researchers' workshop of The Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research, titled "Crossover of Synchrotron Radiation, Microscopy and Machine Learning."

Hiroshi Tsukahara presented his poster at SMM26.

Each of Prof. Ono, Yusaku Nakajima, Takafumi Hawai (CROSS), Masato Okawachi, Yusei Ito, and Yasuo Takeichi presented his invited/oral/poster presentation at IUCr2023.

Yusaku Nakajima presented his work at MEEP Seminar.

Yusaku Nakajima gave his poster presentation in the AI-Robot Science Symposium 2023.

Prof. Ono gave a keynote talk in the 13th International Symposium on Hysteresis Modeling and Micromagnetics (HMM2023).

Lab members updated.

The graduation ceremony was held.

Each of Yusaku Nakajima, Yusei Ito, and Masato Okawachi gave an oral presentation at JSAP Spring Meeting 2023.

Reports of Hayabusa2 return samples analyzed using the X-ray microscope at KEK were published: Nakamura et al. and Yabuta et al.

Leaflets for undergraduate students (in Japanese only) was updated.

Yusei Ito gave his oral presentation at JSSRR 2023.

A report on machine learning aided materials embeddings from crystal structures was published.

Chigusa Tomioka joined our group.

Our activity aiming for improving efficiency of synchrotron experiments appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

An issue on machine learning was published in Synchrotron Radiation News under the guest editorial of Prof. Ono.

Yasuna Sato joined our group.

Our activity on autonomous laboratory appeared in Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (newspaper, in Japanese).

Yusaku Nakajima presented his contributed talk in IROS 2022, one of the largest and most impacting robotics research conferences.

Some webpages were updated in accord with our ongoing projects.

A report on micromagnetics simulation of nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials was published.

Undergraduate students joined our group. Some of KEK members moved to Osaka University.

Graduation Ceremony of SOKENDAI was held. Yuta Suzuki won the 8th SOKENDAI AWARD for his Ph.D. Thesis.

Leaflet for undergraduate students (in Japanese only) was posted.

Yuta Suzuki presented his Ph.D. Thesis defense.

Hiroshi Tsukahara presented an invited talk in Joint MMM-INTERMAG.

Yasuo Takeichi joined our group.

Mayu Yoshinaka joined our group.

Prof. Ono took up the faculty position in Osaka University.