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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.
Recent Publications
- Open-SAT: LLM-Guided Query Embedding Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Object Retrieval in Satellite Imagery
- 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
- GNPy as a Benchmark for Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks
- 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
- Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models
- Leveraging Deployed Telecom Cables for Distributed Fiber Sensing Topologies and Applications
- DeepSieve: Information Sieving via LLM-as-a-Knowledge-Router
- Decoding Time Series with LLMs: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cross-Domain Annotation
- Multi-Agent Procedural Graph Extraction with Structural and Logical Refinement
- Interpretability and Implicit Model Semantics in Biomedicine and Deep Learning
- Frequency-Division Multiplexed Time-Interleaved Phase-OTDR with Nested Phase References
- Field study on phase and polarization dynamics of deployed anti-resonant hollow core fiber cable for vibration sensing
- Agnostic QoT Probing via Receiver-Side ASE Loading in a Production Metro for Transparent Datacenter Exchange
- Mobile Orbital Domain-based Hierarchical Routing in Satellite Networks
- Image-Specific Adaptation of Transformer Encoders for Compute-Efficient Segmentation
- Logical Guidance for the Exact Composition of Diffusion Models
- HorizonForge: Driving Scene Editing with Any Trajectories and Any Vehicles
- Field Trial of High-Sensitivity Forward-Transmission Sensing for Real-World Event Detection Over Live Urban Fiber Networks
- Manhole Localization and Condition Diagnostics in Telecom Networks Using Distributed Acoustic and Temperature Sensing
Events
- 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
- NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from Nov 30th to Dec 5th, 2025
- Eric Blow Presents at the IEEE Photonics Conference Singapore on November 10th & 13th
News
- Training Small AI Models Without Blindly Trusting Big Teacher Models
- Open-SAT: LLM-Guided Query Embedding Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Object Retrieval in Satellite Imagery
- 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
- Celebrating the Women of NEC Laboratories America
- Honoring Black Innovators Who Shaped Technology
- NEC Laboratories America 2025: A Year of Disruptive Innovation