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• #AI-RAN

Yuto Kawai

• Profile
  I received the M.S. degree in information and communication engineering from The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2022. Since 2022, he has been a researcher with Research Institute of Advanced Technology, SoftBank Corp., Tokyo, Japan. His research interests include RAN (Radio Access Network) optimization by AI/ML.
• Research area
  • Real-time optimization of mobile networks
  • RIC(RAN Intelligent Controller)
• Major publications / papers
  • Y. Kawai and S. Sugiura, "QoS-Constrained Optimization of Intelligent Reflecting Surface Aided Secure Energy-Efficient Transmission," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 5137-5142, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3075685.
  • Y. Kawai and S. Sugiura, "QoS-Constrained Energy-Efficient Beamforming and Jamming With Intelligent Reflecting Surface for Secure Multi-User Downlink," in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 187-197, March 2022, doi: 10.1109/TGCN.2022.3144293.
  • S. Sugiura, Y. Kawai, T. Matsui, T. Lee and H. Iizuka, "Joint Beam and Polarization Forming of Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces for Wireless Communications," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 1648-1657, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVT.2021.3055237.
• Major achievements
  The Dean's Award of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo 2021
• Passions
  Make wireless communications smarter and mobile networks leaner.