Killian Duay of Nagai Laboratory Wins 2025 JOSA A Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize

Killian Duay, a doctoral student in Professor Takehiro Nagai's laboratory in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering received the 2025 JOSA A Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize in June 2026. Presented by Optica Publishing Group, the prize recognizes one outstanding paper each year in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A (JOSA A) whose first author is a student or an early-career researcher. Papers are evaluated for their significance, quality, and presentation. The award-winning paper, “Impact of field of view on color constancy in virtual reality” (JOSA A, 42(5), B199–B213, 2025), was coauthored by Killian Duay and Takehiro Nagai.