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NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Achieve Quantum Control of Excitons in 2D Semiconductors

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab have achieved quantum control of exciton wavefunctions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists from its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab have achieved quantum control of exciton wavefunctions in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors.
  • However, achieving fine control over their quantum mechanical state has been plagued with scalability issues due to limitations in existing fabrication techniques.
  • In particular, the control over position and energy of quantum dots has been a major hindrance to scaling up towards quantum applications.
  • The PHI Lab has also entered a joint research agreement with the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

NTT to Host Upgrade 2024 Global Research & Innovation Summit

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Monday, March 11, 2024

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to hold Upgrade 2024 , NTT’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, on April 10-11, 2024.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to hold Upgrade 2024 , NTT’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, on April 10-11, 2024.
  • Day 2 (April 11) of Upgrade 2024 will kick-off at the Metreon with remarks by NTT Research President Gomi.
  • The second, on basic research, features NTT Venture Capital (VC) Founding Partner Vab Goel, NTT Senior Executive Vice President CTO Katsuhiko Kawazoe and NTT Research President Gomi.
  • NTT Research invites business leaders, students, academics, researchers and journalists to attend, as well as NTT customers, employees, partners and stakeholders.

NTT Research CIS Lab Director Receives Fourth Test-of-Time Award

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Monday, November 6, 2023

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that a paper co-authored by Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab Director Brent Waters has won an IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) Test of Time Award .

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that a paper co-authored by Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab Director Brent Waters has won an IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) Test of Time Award .
  • In addition, two papers co-authored by scientists from the CIS Lab and the NTT Social Informatics Laboratories (SIL) will be presented at this year’s conference.
  • “The FOCS 2013 paper changed the landscape of theoretical cryptography,” CIS Lab Senior Scientist Abhishek Jain said.
  • Takashi Yamakawa, a Distinguished Researcher at NTT SIL, focuses on constructions of post-quantum and quantum cryptographic protocols and their security.

NTT Research PHI Lab Scientists Address Bias in AI

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists affiliated with its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab have co-authored a paper that proposes a way to overcome bias in deep neural networks (DNNs).

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that scientists affiliated with its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab have co-authored a paper that proposes a way to overcome bias in deep neural networks (DNNs).
  • “Our PHI Lab scientists and their colleagues have enlarged our understanding of the relatively neglected field of neural network fine-tuning in this notable paper and have proposed an innovative remedy for correcting against bias,” PHI Lab Director Yoshihisa Yamamoto said.
  • In a recent three-month span, top academic journals accepted or published a dozen papers co-authored by PHI Lab scientists.
  • The PHI Lab also has reached joint research agreements with numerous institutions, Harvard University being the most recent.

NTT Research Upgrades Thinking Around Standard Computational Models with Papers on Photonics, Neural Network and More

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Thursday, August 10, 2023

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab continues to advance basic scientific knowledge in the areas of neural network, photonics and quantum science.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that its Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab continues to advance basic scientific knowledge in the areas of neural network, photonics and quantum science.
  • In a three-month span, from March 1 to May 31, ten influential scientific journals published or accepted 12 papers co-authored by PHI Lab scientists.
  • At the same time, members of the PHI Lab delivered 19 talks at six scientific conferences or meetings.
  • “This three-month snapshot indicates the breadth, depth, productivity and impact of our research,” PHI Lab Director Yoshihisa Yamamoto said.

NTT Research Scientist Creates Model for Discontinuous Learning

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Dr. Reddy shows that the outcome of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which operate gradually, can appear discontinuous for certain kinds of tasks.

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  • Dr. Reddy shows that the outcome of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which operate gradually, can appear discontinuous for certain kinds of tasks.
  • “We show that the nonlinear dynamics of RL-based learning, together with continuous exploration, lead to discontinuous learning curves in tree-like structured environments,” Dr. Reddy said.
  • Along with these research initiatives, Dr. Reddy also serves as the NTT Research PHI Lab lead on a five-year joint research project with scientists at Harvard University to study animal neuro-responses, in the hope of informing future artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
  • The NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley has also entered into a joint research agreement with the PHI Lab.

ACM Honors Work by NTT Research Cryptographer with Best Paper Award

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that a paper by NTT Research Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab Senior Scientist Daniel Wichs that is being presented at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) has won a Best Paper Award.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that a paper by NTT Research Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab Senior Scientist Daniel Wichs that is being presented at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) has won a Best Paper Award.
  • “We look forward to recognizing Daniel Wichs with a Best Paper Award at this year’s ACM STOC 2023,” said ACM STOC Program Committee Chair Rocco Servedio of Columbia University.
  • Initially, we were very skeptical and kept trying to find reasons why it shouldn't work, until we finally convinced ourselves that it does.”
    A Best Paper Award recognizes an innovative contribution and the importance of the research field.
  • NTT SIL, part of NTT Group’s R&D team in Tokyo, collaborates with the CIS Lab across many areas of cryptography research to collectively advance future cybersecurity technologies.

NTT Research and NCVC to Form Bio Digital Twin Center

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

NTT Research, Inc. , (NTTR) a division of NTT (TYO:9432), and the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) today announced an agreement to jointly launch a Bio Digital Twin Center in Suita, Japan.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , (NTTR) a division of NTT (TYO:9432), and the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) today announced an agreement to jointly launch a Bio Digital Twin Center in Suita, Japan.
  • This initiative extends and expands the scope of a joint agreement on cardiovascular bio digital twin (CV BioDT) research between the two organizations reached in 2020.
  • Scientists at the NTTR-NCVC Bio Digital Twin Center intend to create applications by integrating mathematical models, co-developed by the MEI Lab and NCVC, onto the CV BioDT platform advanced by the MEI Lab.
  • Kazunori Uemura and Keita Saku (M.D., Ph.D.s) will lead the NTTR-NCVC Bio Digital Twin Center, respectively, as laboratory chief and acting director.

NTT Research Co-Authored Publication Demonstrates Optically Accelerated Edge Computing

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The project has enjoyed support from NTT Research, which announced a five-year joint research agreement with MIT in November 2019 that included the goal of developing photonic accelerators for deep learning.

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  • The project has enjoyed support from NTT Research, which announced a five-year joint research agreement with MIT in November 2019 that included the goal of developing photonic accelerators for deep learning.
  • Corresponding author Alexander Sludds discussed Netcast at Coherent Network Computing (CNC) 2022 , an NTT Research-organized conference that took place October 24–26 at Stanford University.
  • The NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and 1QBit , a private quantum computing software company, have also entered joint research agreements with the PHI Lab.
  • In March 2022, NTT Research joined the MIT AI Hardware program as an inaugural industrial member.

NTT Research and NTT to Present 17 Papers at Eurocrypt 2023

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

NTT Research, Inc ., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that members of its Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab and of the NTT Social Informatics Laboratories (SIL) in Tokyo, Japan co-authored 17 papers that are being presented at Eurocrypt 2023 , one of three flagship conferences organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

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  • NTT Research, Inc ., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that members of its Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab and of the NTT Social Informatics Laboratories (SIL) in Tokyo, Japan co-authored 17 papers that are being presented at Eurocrypt 2023 , one of three flagship conferences organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).
  • For details on all NTT Eurocrypt 2023 papers, see Appendix A below.
  • These papers are co-authored by NTT Research Senior Research Scientist Elette Boyle (who discussed an MPC-related topic of privacy-preserving aggregate statistics at Upgrade 2023 ), Senior Research Scientist Vipul Goyal, and Research Scientist Ilan Komargodski (who discussed related protocols in this Q&A ).
  • Eight affiliated events at Eurocrypt 2023 will take place at University College, Lyon, on April 22 and 23.