NEC Laboratories America is proud to participate in OECC 2026, the 31st Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, taking place in Busan, South Korea. We look forward to connecting with the international photonics and communications community and sharing the work we’re doing to shape the next generation of optical networks.
NEC Labs America is heading to Denver for CVPR 2026, one of the most prestigious gatherings in computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition. The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition brings innovators from around the world to share breakthroughs.
Senior Researcher Ezra Ip has been invited to present Sensors Based on Forward Transmission using the Telecom Infrastructure at CLEO 2026 in Charlotte, NC, on Monday, May 18th, from 5:30-6:00pm. He explores a compelling frontier: using existing telecom networks as environmental sensors.
Generative AI is transforming cloud computing. At Cloud Computing 2026, Kunal Rao will chair the GenAI4Cloud track and deliver a keynote on software engineering in the AI era, exploring how AI agents, LLMs, and intelligent infrastructure are redefining the cloud stack.
Eric C. Blow of NEC Laboratories America presents a keynote at COOL Chips 29 in Tokyo, exploring multi-modal photonic computing for real-time, ultra-efficient inference. This work highlights how photonics is reshaping AI performance, enabling faster and more energy-efficient processing across next-generation systems.
As AI data centers grow, the fiber-optic networks that connect massive computing clusters become critical infrastructure. This talk explores how Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) can turn communication cables into real-time sensors that detect physical threats and improve cyber-physical resilience.
NEC Laboratories America’s Optical Networking & Sensing team will participate in OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, March 15–19, contributing to panels, workshops, and courses focused on optical sensing, multicore fibers, and next-generation high-capacity optical communication systems.
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. multi-agent coordination, scalable training, efficient inference, and techniques for detecting LLM-generated text.
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.
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.
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