Hikaru Kuribayashi (UTokyoGSC-Next student, supervised by the Todo Group) was awarded the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, the top prize at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (Regeneron ISEF) 2026.

Presentation title: Sampling the Complete Configuration Space of Origami and Linkages Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo

https://isef.net/project/phys021-mcmc-sampling-of-origami-and-linkages
https://www.societyforscience.org/isef/awards/yancopoulos-innovator-award/