Yanagisawa received the 2026 Yamashita Memorial Research Award from the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ). This award recognizes only the most outstanding presentations from each IPSJ special interest group (including symposiums), with only one or two recipients selected per group each year.
The award recognizes Yanagisawa’s presentation, “Frasco-VS: Realization of Fragment-Based Selection of Drug Candidate Compounds via Quantum Annealing,” given at the 203rd HPC and 17th Quantum Software Joint Research Meeting (IPSJ SIGQS17), held in March 2026 at Hokkaido University. This presentation had already received the Best Presentation Award from the Quantum Software (SIGQS) research group, making this a follow-up recognition.
Keisuke Yanagisawa, Takuya Fujie, Kazuki Takabatake, Yutaka Akiyama, "Frasco-VS: Quantum Annealing for Fragment-based Drug Candidate Screening", IPSJ SIG Technical Report, 2026-QS-17(5): 1–8, 2026/3/16.
For details, please visit the 2026 IPSJ Yamashita Memorial Research Award recipients page.
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