Awards
Rice Young Faculty Research Award 2022
The Best of IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2021
The 3rd International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing Best Paper Award 10/2021
NIH Research Career Development(K25) 9/2021
NSF Career Award 4/2021
Sony Faculty Innovation Award 2020
Microsoft Pandemic Preparedness Award 2020
Microsoft Productivity Research Collaboration Award 2019
2019 Rice University Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering: Hamill Innovation Awards
IEEE BHI 2019 Best Paper Award 6/2019
NIH mHealth Training Institute Scholar 08/2017
NIPS 2016 Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Best Paper Award 12/2016
NHK Ideathon, Frist Prize Winner 05/2016
MIT MindHandHeart Innovation Fund Recipient 01/2016
Samsung Electronics Research Fund Recipient 08/2013
AAAI Spring Symposium Best Presentation Award 03/2014
Sony Corporation Patent Award 03/2014
MIT Graduate Student Travel Grant 06/2013
MIT Global Fellows Program Recipient 06/2013
Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship 09/2010 – 08/2015
Rotary Foundation Scholarship 09/2009 – 08/2010
Danish Government Scholarship 09/2004 – 03/2005
Keio University Scholarship 04/2004 – 03/2005
Keio University Scholarship 04/2002 – 03/2003
Keio University Scholarship 04/2001 – 03/2002
Yoshida Scholarship Foundation 04/2003 – 03/2005
Keio University, Best Thesis Presentation Award 09/2002
Obara Shiraume Scholarship Foundation 04/1999 – 03/2003
Selected Press
- Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Work?, MIT Sloan Management Review, 1/2019
- NSF announces awards to shape the human-technology partnership for the well-being of workers and their productivity, National Science Foundation, 11/2018
- Enhancing cognitive abilities for healthier work, Rice University, 11/2018
- Happy with a 20% chance of sadness, Nature News Article, 10/2018
- Artificial Intelligence is Real (and Now), The App Association, 8/2018
- Can AI Learn to Understand Emotions?,PBS, 2018/05
- Sleep regularity is important for the happiness and well-being of college students, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 05/2017
- Japanese Researchers in New England: Dr. Akane Sano – Research Scientist in MIT Media Lab, Consulate-General of Japan in Boston, 10/2016
- The Personality Trait That Makes It Harder to Focus at Work, Jocelyn K. Glei, New York Magazine, 10/2016
- Brain Drain: The False Lure of Multitasking, Catherine Maddux, Voice of America, 05/2016
- Why I Wonder if Wearables May Harm Our Health More Than Help, Rita Redberg, The Wall Street Journal
- Can your mobile phone make you healthier?. by Kelly Servick, Science Magazine, December 10, 2015
- Eyeing College Stress, Sleep Patterns. by Karen Weintraub, Boston Globe, November 16, 2015
Invited Talks:
• NAIST (2022)
• Rice University PATH-UP Program “Wearables for Mobile Health” (2022)
• Rice University Data Science REU Program “Data Science and Machine Learning for Mobile Health” (2022)
• Meta (Facebook) (2021)
• ICML 2021 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Mental Health (2021)
• IEEE BHI-BSN workshop “Predicting quality of life with multimodal data” (Keynote) (2021)
• Leibniz AI Lab Workshop (2021)
• UCLA (2021)
• ARI/Rice Workforce Science Virtual Workshop (2021)
• AAAI 2021 Workshop on Health Intelligence (Keynote) (2021)
• University of Cambridge, Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence (2021)
• TILES S3B2-ML:Summer School on Sensor-Based Behavioral Machine Learning (2020)
• National Institute of Mental Health: Virtual Workshop: Transforming the Practice of Mental Health Care (2020)
• IEEE CCWC 2020 conference on Computing and Communications (Keynote) (2020)
• Mie University (2019)
• American Epilepsy Society Investigators workshop, “Wearables: beyond seizure detection” (2019)
• Mindgate Visionary Seminar “Precision Medicine” (2019)
• N2 Women Meeting (2019)
• Rice University, Health Tea (2019)
• Technology Collaboration Center: Data Analytics Workshop (2019)
• American Heart Association Summer Cardiovascular Research Internship Program (2019)
• Design Connect Create Physics Camps for Young Women Summer (2019)
• 19th Brazilian Symposium on Applied Computing Health in Rio, Brazil (Keynote) (2019)
• Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit in Boston (2019)
• Affective Science Symposium, Method Session “Ubiquitous and mobile emotion sensing” (2019)
• Keio University (2018)
• MD2K (Mobile Data to knowledge) Webinar (2018)
• Rice Data Science Conference (2018)
• International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) (2018)
• Gordon Research Seminar on Advanced Health Informatics (2018)
• Rice University (2017)
• University of Washington (2017)
• Johns Hopkins University(2017)
• University of Massachusetts Amherst (2017)
• The Japan-US Science Forum in Boston (2016)
• Philips Research (2015)
• Keio University (2014)
• Rutgers University (2013)
• Future of Health Technology Summit (2012)
• Reading Rotary Club (2010)
• Tokyo Rogary Club (2010)
Selected Talks
- University of Washington, Allen School Colloquia – 2017-04
- MIT CSAIL HCI Seminar – 2017-03-07
- Real-world Monitoring of Sleep, Akane Sano, MIT Media Lab with intro by Renata Bushko, Founder, Future of Health Technology Institute FHTI
at Future of Health Technology Summit in 2012
Others
Akane meets How to make (almost) anything
Media symphony & Media Solo (Live Ustream programs [mostly in Japanese])