Takeo Hosomi and Takuya Araki of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories will present a lecture on "Accelerating Spark MLlib and DataFrame with Vector Processor “SX-Aurora TSUBASA” at Spark + AI Summit in San Francisco on April 24.

Satoshi Morinaga, Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, will present a lecture on "Realizing smart supply chains by next-generation AI technologies" at the German-Japanese Economic Forum in Hannover on April 3rd.

Hitoshi Imaoka, Research Fellow & Director  at NEC Biometrics Research Laboratories, and Hans Peter Graf, Department Head of Machine Learning at NEC Laboratories America will join a panel discussion at The AI Summit "AI/SUM" (Apr. 22-24, Tokyo).

Ryohei Fujimaki, former Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, was officially named as CEO of dotData Inc. on Nov. 19, 2018. Dr. Fujimaki has permanently transferred to dotData Inc. and now been fully committed to its business as of Jan. 1, 2019 along with other former NEC researchers - Yukitaka Kusumura, Yusuke Muraoka, and Masato Asahara.

Munehiro Tada, Principle Researcher at NEC System Platform Laboratory was elevated as an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to copper interconnects for very-large-scale integration as of January 1st.