Dr. Kaiji Motegi, an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University, is awarded the 13th Maenosono Memorial Award for Young Researchers. The awarding ceremony is held at the Headquarter of Kobe University on July 11th, 2024. Sponsored by Keiai Machizukuri Foundation, Kobe University gives Maenosono Memorial Award to outstanding young researchers of each department who are expected to lead Kobe University’s future research projects.

In his award-winning article, Dr. Motegi has derived new theoretical properties of the exponentiation approximation of the birthday paradox, a classical problem in probability and statistics. The birthday paradox is well known for many decades in the literature, and Dr. Motegi has discovered and elaborated a surprising blind spot there. This article is published from the Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods; CSTM is a refereed statistics journal indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (2022 Impact Factor = 0.8). This paper is jointly written with Dr. Motegi’s former undergraduate student (see the previous post ). The award selection committee highly evaluates Dr. Motegi’s contributions to research and education, hence presents the 13th Maenosono Memorial Award for Young Researchers to him.

Associate Professor Kaiji Motegi’s award-winning article:
Kaiji Motegi and Sejun Woo (2023). A note on the exponentiation approximation of the birthday paradox. Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods. DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2023.2245086