Oct 18, 2025: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded the IEEE GCCE 2025 Oral Presentation Award:
Ibrahim Khan, Mustafa Can Gursesli, Ruck Thawonmas, Antonio Lanata, "Familiarity Vs Performance: the Link Between Gaming Experience and Audio Recognition," Proc. of the 14th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2025), Osaka, Japan, pp. 1-5, Sep. 23-26, 2025.
Sep 25, 2025: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded the GCCE 2025 Excellent Paper Award (Outstanding Prize):
Ibrahim Khan, Mustafa Can Gursesli, Ruck Thawonmas, Antonio Lanata, "Sightless Showdown: a Comparative Study of AI and Human Performance Without Vision in a Fighting Game," Proc. of the 14th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2025), Osaka, Japan, pp. 1-5, Sep. 23-26, 2025.
2025-2027 Academic Years: Principal investigator, "Innovation in Fighting Game AI through LLM Fine-Tuning," Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 25K15412, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 4,550,000 JPY
December 8, 2023: Advisor of Chollakorn Nimpattanavong, who was awarded
IAIT2023 Best Presentation Award for the following paper:
Chollakorn Nimpattanavong, Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Ibrahim Khan, Thai Van Nguyen, Ruck Thawonmas, Worawat Choensawat and Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn, "Am I Fighting Well? Fighting Game Commentary Generation With ChatGPT," Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT2023), Bangkok, Thailand, Article No. 14, pp. 1-7, Dec. 6-9, 2023.
December 8, 2023: Advisor of Ryosuke Hasegawa, who was awarded
IAIT2023 Best Presentation Award for the following paper:
Ryosuke Hasegawa, Lian Yu, Jun Tanabe and Ruck Thawonmas, "Minecraft Video Aesthetics Quality Assessment Model," Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT2023), Bangkok, Thailand, Article No. 35, pp. 1-5, Dec. 6-9, 2023.
June 21, 2022: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2021 Excellent Demo! Award (Gold Prize):
Tannop Sangvanloy, Pujana Paliyawan, Ruck Thawonmas, Kingkarn Sookhanaphibarn and Worawat Choensawat, "Toward a PCG-Driven 3D Game for Preclinical Detection of Dementia," Proc. of the 10th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE), pp. 711-712, Oct. 12-15, 2021; Demo Video
January 16, 2021: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2020 Excellent Student Poster Award (Gold Prize):
Mury F. Dewantoro, Febri Abdullah, Pujana Paliyawan, Ruck Thawonmas, Fitra A. Bachtiar, "Enhancement of Angry Birds Level Generation from Sketches Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks," Proc. of the 9th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2020), Kobe, Japan, pp. 564-565, Oct. 13-16, 2020; Poster Video
October 18, 2019: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2019 Excellent Poster Award (Outstanding Prize):
Ryota Ishii, Ruck Thawonmas and Tomohiro Harada, "An Analysis of Highlight AI Using Game Experience in Fighting Game," Proc. of the 8th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2019), Osaka, Japan, pp. 560-561, Oct. 15-18, 2019.
September 23, 2019: The advisor of Yulin Cai who was awarded
the IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention 2019 Student Encouragement Award for the following paper:
Yulin Cai, Ruck Thawonmas, and Tomohiro Harada, "Commentary generation for video game live-streaming," Proc. of IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention 2019, B-107, Osaka, Japan, Sep. 23, 2019.
2019-2021 Academic Years: Principal investigator, "Development of functions for audience participation promotion and procedural play generation in well-being live streaming
," Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 19K12291, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 4,290,000 JPY
October 27, 2017: Co-author of the following paper that was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2017 Outstanding Demo! Award:
Jorge Arturo Moran Bravo, Pujana Paliyawan, Tomohiro Harada and Ruck Thawonmas, "Intelligent Assistant for Providing Instructions and Recommending Motions During Full-body Motion Gaming," Proc. of the 6th IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2017), Aichi, Japan, pp. 342-343, Oct. 24-27, 2017.
September 22, 2016: The advisory member for Funny Quotes -- the first AIBIRDS Level Generation Champion in
the CIG 2016 Level Generation Competition having the following members:
Yuxuan Jiang (M1), Quentin Harscoet (visiting student from Bordeaux Graduate School of Engineering in Computer Science, France), Tomohiro Harada (in the photo below with the organizers), and Ruck Thawonmas
February 2, 2016: The advisor of Chun Yin Chu who was awarded
the 2015 IEEE Kansai Section Student Paper Award for the following paper:
Chun Yin Chu, Hisaaki Hashizume, Zikun Guo, Tomohiro Harada, and Ruck Thawonmas, "Combining Pathfinding Algorithm with Knowledge-based Monte-Carlo Tree Search in General Video Game Playing," Proc. of 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG 2015), Tainan, Taiwan, pp. 523-529, Aug. 30 - Sep. 2, 2015.
November 26, 2015: The advisor of Misaki Kaidan who was awarded
the IEEE Japan Council Women In Engineering Best Paper Award for the following paper:
Misaki Kaidan, Chun Yin Chu, Tomohiro Harada, and Ruck Thawonmas, "Procedural Generation of Angry Birds Levels That Adapt to the Player's Skills Using Genetic Algorithm," Proc. of the 2015 IEEE 4th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2015), Osaka, Japan, pp. 535-536, Oct. 27-30, 2015.
October 31, 2015: Mentor of Supaphon Kamon and advisor of Tung Nguyen who were awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2015 Outstanding Student Paper Award for the following paper:
Supaphon Kamon, Tung Duc Nguyen, Tomohiro Harada, Ruck Thawonmas, and Ikuko Nishikawa, "Improving Heuristic Search for RTS-Game Unit Micromanagement Using Reinforcement Learning," Proc. of the 2015 IEEE 4th Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2015), Osaka, Japan, pp. 25-26, Oct. 27-30, 2015.
October 19, 2015: The advisor of Chun Yin Chu who was awarded
the IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention 2015 Student Encouragement Award for the following paper:
Chun Yin Chu, Tomohiro Harada, Ruck Thawonmas, "Biasing Monte-Carlo Rollouts with Potential Field in General @Video Game Playing," Proc. of IPSJ Kansai-Branch Convention 2015, G-107, Osaka, Japan, Sep. 28, 2015.
October 9, 2014: The advisor of Yuto Nakagawa who was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2014 Undergraduate Paper Award for the following paper:
Yuto Nakagawa, Kaito Yamamoto, and Ruck Thawonmas, "Online Adjustment of the AI fs Strength in a Fighting Game Using the k-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm and a Game Simulator," Proc. of the 3rd IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2014), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 494-495, Oct. 7-10, 2014.
October 5, 2014: The adivisory member of the 1st place IceBot (same bot as ICEBot at CIG 2014) participating
in AIIDE 2014 StarCraft AI Competition.
October 3, 2014: The advisor of Chee Ken Choy -- Awardee of
the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Student-Paper Travel Grant Award for the following paper:
Chee Ken Choy, Kien Quang Nguyen and Ruck Thawonmas, "Quantum-inspired Genetic Algorithm with Two Search Supportive Schemes and Artificial Entanglement," Proc. of 2014 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI), Florida, USA, pp. 17-23, Dec. 9-12, 2014.
2014-2016 Academic Years: Principal investigator, "Experience Support for Metaverse and its Social Network," Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 26330421, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 4,160,000 JPY
March 25, 2014: The advisor of Shota Moriguchi, Ryohei Baba, Jyunya Kataoka, and Katafumi Hoshimi who are the recipients of the NTT DOCOMO Prize at 2013 Shiga App Idea Contest
October 3, 2013: The advisor of Tung Nguyen who was awarded
the IEEE GCCE 2013 Outstanding Student Paper Award for the following paper:
Tung Nguyen, Kien Nguyen and Ruck Thawonmas, "Potential Flow for Unit Positioning During Combat in StarCraft," Proc. of the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE 2013), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 10-11, Oct. 1-4, 2013.
August 3, 2013: The advisor to the student members of the 2nd place competition video for the Student Competition Video Competition at IEEE 2013 Conference on
Computational Intelligence and Games (August 11-13, Niagara Falls, Canada).
October 4, 2011: The KES IIMSS 2011 Best Research Paper Award for the following paper -- presented at the KES 4th International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services on July 21, 2011, Piraeus, Greece.
Ruck Thawonmas and Akira Fukumoto, "Frame Extraction Based on Displacement Amount for Automatic Comic Generation from Metaverse Museum Visit Log," Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2011, Volume 11, 153-162, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22158-3_16
2011-2013 Academic Years: Principal investigator,
"Movement Analysis, Action Analysis, and Experience Summarization for Supporting
Experimental Learning in Metaverse,"
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 23500192,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
5,070,000 JPY
2011 Academic Year: Principal investigator,
"Prediction of Player Movements in Educational and Research Facilities for Supporting Experimental Learning,"
Type-A Research Grant,
HAYAO NAKAYAMA Foundation for Science & Technology and Culture,
670,000 JPY
2009 Academic Year: Principal investigator,"Robust Detection Methods for Online-Game Bots,"
Research Grant for Promoting Technological Seeds (A),
Number 1056,
Japan Science and Technology Agency,
2,000,000 JPY
2008-2010 Academic Years: Principal investigator,
"Data Mining of Movement and Action Logs of MMORPG Players,"
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 20500146,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
4,420,000 JPY
2004-2006 Academic Years: Principal investigator,
"Fundamental Technologies of Virtual Communities Creating Game Mining,"
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Number 16500091,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science,
3,400,000 JPY
2001-2002 Academic Years: Principal investigator,
"Applications of Neural Networks to Text Mining,"
Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists, Number 13780309,
the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2,000,000 JPY
2001 Academic Year: Principal investigator,
"Automatic Answering System,"
SSR CO., LTD., 2,100,000 JPY
2000 Academic Year: Principal investigator,
"A Study on Text Mining for Ultra Large-Scale Textual Databases,"
Research Grant Number 00-20, the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, 1,000,000 JPY
