1. IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award by IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Board

2. Best Young Researcher Award Young researchers who have been very active in ComSoc publication and conference activities over the last 3 years are candidates. Age limit is 35. Applicants must be members in the Asia/Pacific region (Several outstanding young researcher awards can be issued at the same time.)

3. Award Emoluments Recipient will receive a certificate and US$500. Outstanding young researcher will receive a certificate and $250.

4. Applicants Inde x Applicants NameAffiliationCountry 1Sim Moh LimMultimedia UniversityMalaysia 2Andy Lock Yen, LowMultimedia UniversityMalaysia 3Byoung-Hoon KimGCT Semiconductor, Inc.Korea 4Eiji OkiNTT Network Innovation Labs.Japan 5Naoki WakamiyaOsaka UniversityJapan 6 Kwan Lawrence Yeung University of Hong KongHong Kong 7Wen-Jyi HwangChung Yuan Christian UniversityTaiwan 8Hideki OchiaiUniversity of Electro-CommunicationsJapan 9Tomoaki OhtsukiTokyo University of ScienceJapan 10Takumi MiyoshiShibaura Institute of TechnologyJapan 11Shiann-Tsong SheuTamKang UniversityTaiwan

5. Committee members Naohisa Ohta (Director) Naoaki Yamanaka (TAC Chair) Zhisheng Niu (TAC Vice-Chair) King Ngan (TAC Vice-Chair) Seung Woo Seo (TAC Vice-Chair) Haruhisa Hasegawa (TAC Secretary)

6. Selection Process [Step 1] Each committee member read all paper, biography etc. of all applicants. [Step 2] Score then by activity, originality, quality and total [5 (best) – 1 (worst)] with short comments, if any. [Step 3] Send score sheet direct to Dr. H. Hasegawa (secretary). [Step 4] Each score sheet is sorted by the total. [Step 5] Show the best paper award candidate to all committee members by Dr. H. Hasegawa and discussion. [Step 6] Award

7. Score sheet NameActivityOriginalityQuality 1S.M.Lim3 33234 3123.53 343 2A.L.Y.Low3 43133 31233 2122.5 3B.H.Kim515344.554455 55555 4E.Oki415544.3544454554453.5 5 N.Wakamiy a 4 24233 31334 3133 6K.L.Yeung424454432234444434 7W.J.Hwang424354433544545543.5 8H.Ochiai4 4333.54 513 4 544 9T.Ohtsuki535554435443.5444353.6 10T.Miyoshi3 2312.54 32234 2133 11S.T.Sheu415544.3534353.8544443.5

8. ApplicantsScoreOverall Name Ran k Averag e ------ 1Sim Moh Lim88.8010 987 2Andy Lock Yen, Low117.309 9558.5 3Byoung-Hoon Kim113.25151014131413.5 4Eiji Oki212.63141013 1411.8 5Naoki Wakamiya98.4011 8689 6 Kwan Lawrence Yeung 710.6712910 1112 7Wen-Jyi Hwang511.921391213 11.5 8Hideki Ochiai610.9012 1481010.5 9Tomoaki Ohtsuki312.35131014121411.1 10Takumi Miyoshi107.7011 7668.5 11Shiann-Tsong Sheu411.9314813121311.6 Score sheet

9. Best Young Resercher Byoung-Hoon Kim, GCT Semiconductor, Inc., Korea for the contribution

10. Outstanding young researcher ● Eiji Oki, NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan ● Wen-Jyi Hwang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan ● Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan ● Shiann-Tsong Sheu, TamKang University, Taiwan

11. Certificate