NEC Labs America Attends the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence #AAAI25

February 27, 2025|byNEC Labs America|inEvents|tagsAAAI, AAAI25, abhishek aich, agentic llm, ai, artificial intelligence, christopher malon, llm, lu an tang, martin renqiang min, mohammad a khojastepour, peng yuan, shaobo han, wenchao yu

Our NEC Lab America team attended the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from February 25 to March 4, 2025.

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines.
Our team presented technical papers, leading special tracks, delivering talks on key topics, participating in workshops, conducting tutorials, and showcasing research in poster sessions.

The NEC Labs Booth #208 was very busy Thursday through Saturday.

Presentations

Incident Diagnosing and Reporting System based on Retrieval Augmented Large Language Model Poster Presentation

Lu-An Tang, Senior Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Peng Yuan, Senior Associate Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Friday, February 28^th, 12:00pm-2:30pm

Lu-An Tang

Peng Yuan

TimeCAP: Learning to Contextualize, Augment, and Predict Time Series Events with Large Language Model Agents Poster Presentation

Wenchao Yu, Senior Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Saturday, March 1, 12:30pm-2:30pm
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11418

Learning Disentangled Equivariant Representation for Explicitly Controllable 3D Molecule Generation Poster Presentation

Martin Min, Department Head, Machine Learning
Saturday, March 1, 12:30pm-2:30pm
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15086

RAG-check: Evaluating Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation Performance Poster Presentation

Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Senior Researcher, Integrated Systems
Monday, March 3^rd
Paper: https://www.nec-labs.com/blog/rag-check-evaluating-multimodal-retrieval-augmented-generation-performance/

Reducing Hallucinations of Medical Multimodal Large Language Models with Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation Poster Presentation

Christopher Malon, Senior Researcher, Machine Learning
Tuesday, March 4^th
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15040

VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks Poster Presentation

Shaobo Han, Senior Researcher, Optical Networking & Sensing
Tuesday, March 4^th
Paper: https://www.nec-labs.com/blog/vb-lora-extreme-parameter-efficient-fine-tuning-with-vector-banks/

Scalable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence Systems (SEAS) Workshop

Abhishek Aich, Researcher, Media Analytics is the lead organizer for the workshop
Tuesday, March 4^th
Organizers: https://seasworkshop.github.io/aaai25/organizers.html

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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.

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October 17, 2025

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.

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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

October 15, 2025

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.