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NEC Labs America2025-11-19 17:44:032025-12-12 14:09:23NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from November 30th to December 5th, 2025
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.

NEC Labs America Attended OFC 2025 in San Francisco
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
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 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, led special tracks, delivered talks on key topics, participated in workshops, conducted tutorials, and showcased research in poster sessions. The team greeted visitors at Booth #208 and was there Thursday through Saturday.

NEC Labs America Team Attending NeurIPS24 in Vancouver
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

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NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs) is the US-based center for NEC Corporation’s global network of corporate research laboratories. Our diverse research groups collaborate with industry, academia and governments to provide disruptive solutions to complex problems. A leader in the integration of IT and network technologies with more than 100 years of expertise, NEC provides a combination of products and solutions that cross-utilize the company’s experience and global resources to meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers.
Recent Publications
- Quantitative Bounds for Length Generalization in Transformers
- Sound Event Classification meets Data Assimilation with Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing
- SlideCraft: Context-aware Slides Generation Agent
- TalentScout: Multimodal AI-Driven Expert Finding in Organizations
- AutoScape: Geometry-Consistent Long-Horizon Scene Generation
- DWIM: Towards Tool-aware Visual Reasoning via Discrepancy-aware Workflow Generation & Instruct-Masking Tuning
- Mapillary Vistas Validation for Fine-Grained Traffic Signs: A Benchmark Revealing Vision-Language Model Limitations
- LANGTRAJ: Diffusion Model and Dataset for Language-Conditioned Trajectory Simulation
- DiscussLLM: Teaching Large Language Models When to Speak
- Bifröst: Peer-to-peer Load-balancing for Function Execution in Agentic AI Systems
- Harnessing Vision Models for Time Series Analysis: A Survey
- Multi-modal Time Series Analysis: A Tutorial and Survey
- ICeTEA: Mixture of Detectors for Metric-Log Anomaly Detection
- Roadside Multi-LiDAR Data Fusion for Enhanced Traffic Safety
- Identifying Combinatorial Regulatory Genes for Cell Fate Decision via Reparameterizable Subset Explanations
- On Synthesizing Data for Context Attribution in Question Answering
- Feasibility study on scour monitoring for subsea cables of offshore wind turbines using distributed fiber optic sensors
- Group Relative Augmentation for Data Efficient Action Detection
- Uncertainty Propagation on LLM Agent
- Exploring Multi-Modal Data with Tool-Augmented LLM Agents for Precise Causal Discovery
- EcoDoc: A Cost-Efficient Multimodal Document Processing System for Enterprises Using LLMs
- Integration of Fiber Optic Sensing and Sparse Grid Sensors for Accurate Fault Localization in Distribution Systems
- XPF: Agentic AI System for Business Workflow Automation
- Quantitative Bounds for Length Generalization in Transformers
- Re-ranking the Context for Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation
- Beyond the Permutation Symmetry of Transformers: The Role of Rotation for Model Fusion
- PPDiff: Diffusing in Hybrid Sequence-Structure Space for Protein-Protein Complex Design
- Pathologist-Read vs AI-Driven Assessment of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Melanoma
- AutoScape: Geometry-Consistent Long-Horizon Scene Generation
Events
- NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from November 30th to December 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
- NECLA at ECOC 2025: Advancing Optical Communication and Distributed Sensing
News
- NEC Laboratories America 2025: A Year of Disruptive Innovation
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- Graph Neural Networks, Explained: Our Role in the Future of AI
- Shaping the Future with Responsible AI, Collaboration, and Disruption
- Top 10 Most Legendary College Pranks of All-Time for April Fools’ Day
- Introducing the Trustworthy Generative AI Project: Pioneering the Future of Compositional Generation and Reasoning
- Introducing Our New Project: Time Series Language Model for Explainable AI
- The Evolution of Disciplines: From Experimental Roots to Theoretical Frameworks
- Agentic LLMs for AI Orchestration Project: Revolutionizing Complex Workflows
- Multi-Agent Simulator for Carbon Neutrality: The Technology the World Has Been Waiting For
- NEC Laboratories Advances Material Design with AI-based MateriAI Platform
- Unearthing Nature’s Orchestra – How Fiber Optic Cables Can Hear Cicada Secrets
