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.

NEC Laboratories Europe provided a very high-resolution digital scanner to the Department of Applied Tumor Biology at the Institute of Pathology of the Heidelberg University Hospital for digitizing images of cancer tissue samples. Both parties agreed to conduct a joint research to create artificial intelligence based on machine learning to predict the clinical biology and therapy responsiveness of human cancers.

A Paper written by Kunihiro Takeoka, Masafumi Oyamada and Shinji Nakadai researcher at NEC Data Science Research Laboratories,  have been accepted to The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19, 1/27-2/1).