NEWS Toshiaki Koike-Akino delivers an invited talk as a panelist at OFC 2026
Date released: March 16, 2026
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NEWS Toshiaki Koike-Akino delivers an invited talk as a panelist at OFC 2026 Date:
March 17, 2026
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Description:

MERL researcher Toshiaki Koike-Akino will serve as a panelist at OFC 2026, the premier global event for optical communications and networking, to be held in Los Angeles, March 15–19.
Dr. Koike-Akino will participate in the special panel session titled “Machine Learning is Taking Over Optical Communications—But Which Algorithms Should We Use?” He will deliver a panel talk titled “Scaling AI with Light: AI Is Taking Over Optics — But Optics May Take Over AI.” His talk will discuss the growing synergy between AI and optical technologies, highlighting the emerging vision of leveraging optical physics not only as an application domain for AI, but also as a platform for scaling future AI systems. -
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Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
