The Encouragement Award will be presented to students who presented their research at the online research presentation held at the "6th (2024) Japan E-Commerce Association National Research Presentation Conference." A total of eight students were awarded this year.

Encouragement Award winners (in no particular order)

• Waseda University: Yuto Nunome Improvement and application of classification models based on point cloud data of human movements

• Waseda University: Kengo Miyajima Hierarchical multi-label document classification model for incomplete teacher labels

• Waseda University: Ryuta Matsuoka Clustering model capturing diversity of preferences based on browsing frequency

• Waseda University: Taichi Abe Proposal of a method to extract customers who are effective in new e-commerce users in omni-channel

• Tokai University: Souji Hirayama Baseball player scoring system using comment data

• Tokai University: Reo Yasuzai YouTuber evaluation model with influencer marketing in mind

• Tokai University: YAN HAOTONG The impact of anime broadcast period on anime goods sales

• Tokai University: Riku Okada, Campaign effectiveness of mobile ordering at restaurant chain X

Congratulations to all the award winners!