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About Us
NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs) is the US-based center for NEC Corporation’s global network of corporate research laboratories. Our diverse research groups collaborate with industry, academia and governments to provide disruptive solutions to complex problems. A leader in the integration of IT and network technologies with more than 100 years of expertise, NEC provides a combination of products and solutions that cross-utilize the company’s experience and global resources to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers.
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Recent Publications
- Automated Negotiation and Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting for Efficient Procurement
- Open-SAT: LLM-Guided Query Embedding Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Object Retrieval in Satellite Imagery
- Closed-Form Statistical Modeling of PDL-Induced SNR Margins for Reliable Optical Networks
- RunAgent: Interpreting Natural-Language Plans with Constraint-Guided Execution (IEEE)
- Event Classification by Physics-Informed Inpainting for Distributed Multichannel Acoustic Sensor with Partially Degraded Channels
- Learning to Tune OpticalWANs: A Field Deployment of Noise Models in Optical Networks
- Mix-Clap: Adaptive Fusion of Knowledge-Distilled Audio Embeddings for Noise-Aware Audio-Language Models
- PhyCo: Learning Controllable Physical Priors for Generative Motion
- GNPy as a Benchmark for Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks
- Solving Inverse Problems via a Score-Based Prior: An Approximation-Free Posterior Sampling Approach
- Quantitative Bounds for Length Generalization in Transformers
- Agentic Placement of Microservices on the Computing Continuum
- Learning to Route: A Rule-Driven Agent Framework for Hybrid-Source Retrieval-Augmented Generation
- Uncertainty-Guided Latent Diagnostic Trajectory Learning for Sequential Clinical Diagnosis
- HorizonWeaver: Generalizable Multi-Level Semantic Editing for Driving Scenes
Events
- Giuseppe Coviello Presents at HiPES 2026 | Euro-Par in Pisa, Italy on August 25th
- NEC Labs America Attends ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea July 6-11, 2026
- NEC Labs America Attends ACL 2026 San Diego July 2-7, 2026
- NEC Labs America Attends OECC June 28 – July 2, 2026
- NEC Labs America Attends CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO June 3-7, 2026
- Ezra Ip Presents at CLEO 2026 in Charlotte, NC on May 18th
- Future of Cloud Computing with GenAI: Kunal Rao at Cloud Computing 2026
- Eric C. Blow to Deliver Photonic AI Keynote at COOL Chips 29 in Tokyo on April 17th
- Yangmin Ding Presents at the 5th Workshop on Foundation Models of the Electric Grid on March 18th
- NEC Labs America Attending OFC 2026 Los Angeles, March 15-19
News
- NEC Laboratories America Researchers Win a 2026 Edison Patent Award for Optical Fiber Innovation
- Summer Interns 2026
- Teaching AI to Edit Driving Scenes It Has Never Seen with HorizonWeaver
- Turning Every Telecom Cable into a City-Wide Sensor Network
- When Video AI Gets Physics Wrong, the Consequences Are Real
- Mix-CLAP: Teaching Audio AI to Work in the Noisy Real World
- How AI Can Transform the Way Companies Buy What They Need
- Open SAT: How We Taught AI to Search Satellite Images Like a Search Engine
- Training Small AI Models Without Blindly Trusting Big Teacher Models
- How Rule-Driven Routing Makes Retrieval-Augmented Generation Smarter
- Making Video AI Fast Enough for the Real World
- How Our AI Contributed to NASA’s Artemis Missions
- Rethinking Molecular Drug Design: From Generation to Control
- Driving the Future of Scene Editing with HorizonForge
- Beyond Explainability: How We Are Redefining Interpretability in AI
- The Best April Fools’ Day Hoaxes by Companies
- Influential NEC Researchers in the United States Who Helped Shape Modern Computing