Professor Shigetoshi Sugawa received the Niwa Takayanagi Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers in 2023.
The Niwa Takayanagi Award for Distinguished Achievement is given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to academics, technology, or related projects in the field of visual information media.
Professor Sugawa received the award for his long and continuous research, development, and industrialization of high-performance CMOS image sensors that revolutionize basic performance in terms of image quality, dynamic range, shooting speed, and optical wavelength bandwidth.