{"id":5747,"date":"2026-06-29T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:44:30","slug":"hikaru-kuribayashi-utokyogsc-next-student-supervised-by-the-todo-group-was-awarded-the-top-prize-the-george-d-yancopoulos-innovator-award-at-regeneron-isef-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/news\/5747\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikaru Kuribayashi (UTokyoGSC-Next student, supervised by the Todo Group) was awarded the top prize, the George D. Yancopoulos Innovator Award, at Regeneron ISEF 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825-859x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5748\" width=\"215\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825-859x1024.png 859w, https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825-252x300.png 252w, https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825-1289x1536.png 1289w, https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/123ac2dc15bbe14605237043b1f3e825-1719x2048.png 1719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation title: Sampling the Complete Configuration Space of Origami and Linkages Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isef.net\/project\/phys021-mcmc-sampling-of-origami-and-linkages\">https:\/\/isef.net\/project\/phys021-mcmc-sampling-of-origami-and-linkages<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/isef.net\/project\/phys021-mcmc-sampling-of-origami-and-linkages\">https:\/\/www.societyforscience.org\/isef\/awards\/yancopoulos-innovator-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hikaru Kuribayashi (UTokyoGSC-Next student, supervised by the Todo Group) was awarded the George D. Yancopoulo [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}