Lu-An Tang is a Senior Researcher in the Data Science & System Security Department at NEC Laboratories America. He received his BS in Engineering and his MS in Engineering from Peking University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where his work focused on anomaly detection, cyber security, IoT, AIOps and LLM applications with RAG.
At NEC, he develops algorithms that enable the detection of hidden patterns in dynamic, high-dimensional data, with applications ranging from enterprise system monitoring to cybersecurity. His research is widely published in venues such as KDD, ICDM, and AAAI, and he has received recognition for contributions to both theory and practice in data mining.
Dr. Tang plays a key role in NEC’s trusted AI initiatives, working on robust graph-based models that power anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and infrastructure health diagnostics across large-scale industrial systems.