| Akira Uedono(Professor, Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, University of Tsukuba) | Development of Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy as Vacancy Detection Method and Its Application to Material Characterization |
| Noritaka Usami(Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University ) | Research on Various Crystal Growth of Silicon-Based Materials and Device Applications |
| Noboru Ohtani(Professor, School of Engineering, Kwansei Gakuin University) | Seminal Research Contributions to SiC Bulk Crystal Growth and Defect Physics |
| Kotaro Kajikawa(Professor, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology) | Research in Surface Plasmon Biosensors and Optical Metamaterials |
| Kazumi Kato(Vice President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)) | Synthesis of Ferroelectric Thin Film and Nanocube Oxides Based on Solution Chemistry |
| Takanobu Kiss(Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University) | Elucidation of Current Transport Characteristics of Superconducting Materials and Its Application to Electromagnetic Systems |
| Koji Sugioka(Team Leader, Advanced Laser Processing Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, RIKEN ) | Leading Research on Laser Materials Processing and Applications |
| Makoto Sekine(Designated Professor, Center for Low-temperature Plasma Sciences, Nagoya University) | Research and Development of Plasma Etching Technologies for ULSI Manufacturing |
| Munehiro Tada(Director, NanoBridge Semiconductor, Inc.) | Research and Development of Integration Technology for Cu Interconnects Used in ULSI and Industrial Applications of Atom Switch |
| Shigetaka Tomiya(Senior Principal Researcher/Distinguished Researcher, R&D center, Sony Group Corporation) | Study on Defects and Degradation Mechanisms in Wide-bandgap Compound Semiconductor Optical Devices |
| Tetsuya Hasegawa(Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Tokyo,) | Development of Low Temperature Scanning Probe Microscope for Elucidation and Exploration of Physical Properties of Oxides |
