Events

We take part in major conferences, workshops, and industry events including NeurIPS, ACL, ICML, CVPR, OECC, OFC and ECOC. Read about our upcoming and recent events.

NEC Labs America Attends ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea July 6-11, 2026

June 24, 2026

NEC Laboratories America researchers are heading to Seoul this July for ICML 2026, the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning. One of the most prestigious gatherings in the field, ICML draws academic and industry researchers from around the world to share work spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and their many applications.

NEC Labs America Attends ACL 2026 San Diego July 2-7, 2026

June 23, 2026

NEC Laboratories America heads to ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, July 2–7, to present accepted papers spanning knowledge updating and memory control in large language models, task-aware cultural alignment, uncertainty-aware reasoning, and adaptive chain-of-thought optimization, representing some of the most active frontiers in NLP and AI research today.

NEC Labs America Attends OECC June 28 – July 2, 2026

June 15, 2026

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 Attends CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO June 3-7, 2026

June 2, 2026

NEC Labs America headed 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 brought innovators from around the world to share breakthroughs.

Ezra Ip Presents at CLEO 2026 in Charlotte, NC on May 18th

May 12, 2026

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.

Future of Cloud Computing with GenAI: Kunal Rao at Cloud Computing 2026

April 20, 2026

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 to Deliver Photonic AI Keynote at COOL Chips 29 in Tokyo on April 17th

April 15, 2026

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.

Yangmin Ding Presents at the 5th Workshop on Foundation Models of the Electric Grid on March 18th

March 13, 2026

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 Labs America Attending OFC 2026 Los Angeles, March 15-19

February 24, 2026

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.

NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from Nov 30th to Dec 5th, 2025

November 19, 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. multi-agent coordination, scalable training, efficient inference, and techniques for detecting LLM-generated text.

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

November 6, 2025

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.

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

October 24, 2025

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

October 23, 2025

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

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.

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

October 16, 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

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.

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

October 14, 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

September 22, 2025

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

September 22, 2025

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.

NEC Labs America Attended OFC 2025 in San Francisco

March 21, 2025

The NEC Labs America Optical Networking and Sensing team is attending the 2025 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), the premier global event for optical networking and communications. Bringing together over 13,500 attendees from 83+ countries, more than 670 exhibitors, and hundreds of sessions featuring industry leaders, OFC 2025 serves as the central hub for innovation and collaboration in the field. At this year’s conference, NEC Labs America will showcase its cutting-edge research and advancements through multiple presentations, demonstrations, and workshops.

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

February 27, 2025

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 purpose of the AAAI conference series was to promote research in AI and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers.

NEC Labs America Team Attends NeurIPS24 in Vancouver

December 3, 2024

NEC Labs America is proud to attend NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada from December 10-15. Zachary Izzo will present Subgroup Discovery with the Cox Model, Shaobo Han will present VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks and Jonathan Warrell will present Discrete-Continuous Variational Optimization with Local Gradients.

NEC Labs America Team Attends the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Frankfurt, Germany

September 21, 2024

Our optical networking & sending team has arrived in Frankfurt for the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) and is excited to present many papers and tutorials this week. Please follow this page and on our social media channels for updates.

NEC Labs America Team Attending CVPR 2024 in Seattle

June 11, 2024

Our team will be attending CVPR 2024 (The IEEE /CVF Conference on Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition) from June 17-21! See you there at the NEC Labs America Booth 1716! Stay tuned for more information about our participation.

NEC Labs America at OFC 2024 San Diego from March 24 – 28

March 24, 2024

The NEC Labs America team Yaowen Li, Andrea D'Amico, Yue-Kai Huang, Philip Ji, Giacomo Borraccini, Ming-Fang Huang, Ezra Ip, Ting Wang & Yue Tian (Not pictured: Fatih Yaman) has arrived in San Diego, CA for OFC24! Our team will be speaking and presenting throughout the event. Read more for an overview of our participation.

NEC Labs America Team Heading to NeurIPS23 in New Orleans

December 7, 2023

NEC Labs America is proud to be a Silver Sponsor for NeurIPS 2023 in New Orleans from December 10-16. Visit our booth to meet our team and learn about our intern opportunities in machine learning, data science, media analytics and integrated systems. Also, our Vijay Kumar.B.G, Samuel Schulter & Manmohan Chandraker, along with Zaid Khan, Northeastern University and Yun Fu, UC San Diego will present a paper, Exploring Question Decomposition for Zero-Shot VQA.

NEC Labs America Presentation Highlight from OFC 2023

March 24, 2023

Looking to learn about the latest fiber optics research and innovation? NEC Labs America (NECLA) recently discussed its latest advances in fiber sensing research at the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC), March 5-9, 2023 in San Diego. OFC is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals.

NEC Labs America Heads to Stanford University’s SystemX Alliance Annual Fall Conference

November 16, 2022

NEC Labs America’s (NECLA) President Christopher White is attending Stanford University’s SystemX Alliance 2022 Fall Conference this week, where he is meeting with Ph.D. students, industry-leading researchers and business leaders presenting on a wide range of research topics. The annual conference will highlight exciting research in the areas of advanced materials, data analytics, energy and power management, 3D nanoprinting, and photonic and quantum computing, to name but a few!

Check out our Computervision Papers at #CVPR2022

August 18, 2022

The IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) is the premier annual computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and short courses. NEC Laboratories Media Analytics department is excited to be presenting at CVPR 2022, being held in New Orleans, LA from Sunday, June 19 to Friday, June 24, 2022.

Events

NEC Labs America Attends ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea July 6-11, 2026

NEC Labs America Attends ACL 2026 San Diego July 2-7, 2026

NEC Labs America Attends OECC June 28 – July 2, 2026

NEC Labs America Attends CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO June 3-7, 2026

Ezra Ip Presents at CLEO 2026 in Charlotte, NC on May 18th

Future of Cloud Computing with GenAI: Kunal Rao at Cloud Computing 2026

Eric C. Blow to Deliver Photonic AI Keynote at COOL Chips 29 in Tokyo on April 17th

Yangmin Ding Presents at the 5th Workshop on Foundation Models of the Electric Grid on March 18th

NEC Labs America Attending OFC 2026 Los Angeles, March 15-19

NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from Nov 30th to Dec 5th, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NECLA at ECOC 2025: Advancing Optical Communication and Distributed Sensing

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

NEC Labs America Attended OFC 2025 in San Francisco

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

NEC Labs America Team Attends NeurIPS24 in Vancouver

NEC Labs America Team Attends the 2024 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) in Frankfurt, Germany

NEC Labs America Team Attending CVPR 2024 in Seattle

NEC Labs America at OFC 2024 San Diego from March 24 – 28

NEC Labs America Team Heading to NeurIPS23 in New Orleans

NEC Labs America Presentation Highlight from OFC 2023

NEC Labs America Heads to Stanford University’s SystemX Alliance Annual Fall Conference

Check out our Computervision Papers at #CVPR2022

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