NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from November 30th to December 5th, 2025

NEC Laboratories America is heading to San Diego for NeurIPS 2025, where our researchers will present cutting-edge work spanning optimization, AI systems, language modeling, and trustworthy machine learning. This year’s lineup highlights breakthroughs in areas like multi-agent coordination, scalable training, efficient inference, and techniques for detecting LLM-generated text. Together, these contributions reflect our commitment to advancing fundamental science while building real-world solutions that strengthen industry and society. We’re excited to join the global AI community in San Diego from November 30 to December 5 to share our latest innovations.

Eric Blow Presents at the IEEE Photonics Conference Singapore on November 10th & 13th

Eric Blow of NEC Labs will address how machine-learning methods applied to distributed acoustic-sensing data can monitor facility perimeters and detect intrusion via walk, dig, or drive events over buried optical fibre—for example achieving ~90% classification accuracy. Later in the week he will explore neuromorphic photonic RF sensing combining silicon photonics with FPGA-based recurrent neural networks, and his intern Yuxin Wang will present a finalist paper on scalable photonic neurons for automatic modulation classification.

Giovanni Milione presents Mobile Orbital Domains: Addressing Dynamic Topology Challenges in Satellite Networks at FiO LS Conference on October 29th

Our Giovanni Milione will present Mobile Orbital Domains: Addressing Dynamic Topology Challenges in Satellite Networks (JW4A.47) in Joint Poster Session III at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) conference in Denver, CO, on October 29, 2025, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. We analyze satellite trajectories and identify satellite backbone networks with stable inter-satellite connections.

Andrea D’Amico Presents Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks: From Vision to Reality at FiO LS on October 29th

Join our Andrea D’Amico as he presents Open and Disaggregated Optical Networks: From Vision to Reality (FW6E.1) at part of the Next-Generation Optical Fiber Transmission Systems and Networks Session at the Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science (FiO LS) conference in Denver, CO, on October 29, 2025, 3:30 PM to 4:00 PM. Open and disaggregated optical networks can potentially reshape the telecom landscape.

Murugan Sankaradas presents TalentScout: Multimodal AI-Driven Expert Finding in Organizations at PICom2025 on October 21st

Murugan Sankaradas (presenting virtually) will present “TalentScout: Multimodal AI-Driven Expert Finding in Organizations” at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom2025) on Tuesday, October 21 (10:30am–12pm JST) | Monday, October 20 (9:30–11pm ET) in Hokkaido, Japan.

Abhishek Aich is Organizing the Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models Workshop, held in conjunction with ICCV 2025

We are proud to share that our Abhishek Aich is serving as one of the organizers of the Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models Workshop, held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision, October 20, 2025, 08:55 AM – 12:15 PM HST in Room 314 at theHawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI.

Kunal Rao presents SlideCraft: Context-Aware Slides Generation Agent at PICom 2025 on October 21st

Kunal Rao (presenting virtually) will present “SlideCraft: Context-Aware Slides Generation Agent” at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing hashtag#PICom2025 on Tuesday, Oct 21 (10:30am–12pm JST) | Monday, Oct 20 (9:30–11pm ET) in Hokkaido, Japan. SlideCraft uses AI to automatically generate presentation slides from research content, making technical communication faster and context-aware for scientists and professionals.

Sparsh Garg Presents Mapillary Vistas Validation for Fine-Grained Traffic Signs at DataCV 2025

Our Sparsh Garg, a Senior Associate Researcher in the Media Analytics Department, will present “Mapillary Vistas Validation for Fine-Grained Traffic Signs: A Benchmark Revealing Vision-Language Model Limitations” at the Data Computer Vision (DataCV) 2025 workshop as part of ICCV 2025 in Honolulu, Hawai’i, on Sunday, October 19th, from 11:15 am – 11:25 am.

NECLA at ECOC 2025: Advancing Optical Communication and Distributed Sensing

NEC Laboratories America (NECLA) was proud to join the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025) in Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 28 to October 2. Our researchers presented cutting-edge work in distributed acoustic sensing, AI-driven fiber optics, and optical networking. From generative models for event classification to digital twins and entomological observations using telecom fibers, these sessions highlighted NECLA’s role in shaping the future of intelligent and resilient communication systems. In addition, NECLA’s Fatih Yaman co-organized a workshop on emerging frontiers in optical communication.

Uncertainty Quantification and Reasoning for Reliable AI Seminar at Brigham Young University

Our researcher Xujiang Zhao will present “Uncertainty Quantification and Reasoning for Reliable AI” at Brigham Young University on Thursday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. in TMCB 1170. The seminar explores how statistical modeling and reasoning frameworks can strengthen trustworthy AI, making systems more robust and transparent in high-stakes applications like healthcare and autonomous systems. Attendees will gain insights into how uncertainty quantification is shaping the next generation of responsible AI.