Ryohei Fujimaki, former Research Fellow of NEC Data Science Research Laboratories, was inaugurated as CEO of dotData Inc. as of November 19th, 2018.
As of January 1st, 2019, Ryohei transferred to dotData Inc. to fully commit the business of the company.
Former researchers of NEC Data Research Laboratories, Yukitaka Kusumura, Yusuke Muraoka, and Masato Asahara also transferred to dotData Inc. as of January 1st, 2019.

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).

A Paper written by Tomoya Sakai, 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).