Reposted by Shaobo HanNEC Labs America @neclabsamerica.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Deploying audio AI on low-power fiber-optic sensors means dealing with noise that clean-room models were never trained on. Mix-CLAP matches Transformer-level sound classification accuracy at roughly 5% of the compute cost, adapting to noise conditions on the fly. www.nec-labs.com/blog/mix-cla... 011
Reposted by Shaobo HanNEC Labs America @neclabsamerica.bsky.social · 28/07/2026What if the fiber optic cable already under your city's streets could also detect construction near buried lines, track traffic, and flag network faults? Researchers from Verizon and #NECLabsAmerica reduced monitored-zone cable damage from 22% to 9% in one year. www.nec-labs.com/blog/turning...nec-labs.comTurning Every Telecom Cable into a City-Wide Sensor Network | NEC Labs AmericaNEC Labs America and Verizon researchers show how deployed telecom fiber can sense traffic, construction, and cable damage across 500 km of live network. 001
Reposted by Shaobo HanNEC Labs America @neclabsamerica.bsky.social · 03/04/2026In a new interview with the #IEEE Photonics Society Newsroom, Shaobo Han, Senior Researcher at NEC Laboratories America, discusses his research at the intersection of #photonics, machine learning, and distributed fiber-optic sensing. ieeephotonics.org/news/intervi... #bigdata 001
Shaobo Han @shaobohan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025🚀 At @neclabsamerica (Princeton), young explorers teleoperated the @LeRobotHF SO-ARM 100 and experienced 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘤’𝘴 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹 (1988) firsthand: how tasks that are trivial for humans can be surprisingly challenging for robots. #AI #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #OpenSource #FutureInnovators 010
Shaobo Han @shaobohan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Just read “The Hardware Lottery” by Sara Hooker. A fascinating reminder of how trajectories of the ML field is shaped by hardware constraints and how progress in ML aligns with the tools available.hardwarelottery.github.ioThe Hardware LotteryHow hardware and software determine what research ideas succeed and fail. 011