Conference Talks
ICML 2026, Seoul COEX, 6-11 July, 2026 (Upcoming)
Antonino Scurria, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Akhetonics presented his work "Equilibrium Propagation for Non-Conservative Systems"
Location: Seoul COEX
Date: 6-11 July 2026
AIPhotonics, San Sebastian, Spain, 15-18 June, 2026
Adhila Nazarudeen, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Spatiotemporal Computing with Dispersive Few Mode Fibers For Nonlinear Tasks "
Location: AIPhotonics, San Sebastian, Spain
Date: 15-18 June 2026
AIPhotonics, San Sebastian, Spain, 15-18 June, 2026
Mohammadreza Mokhtari, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Benchmark performance of a coupled laser network as a photonic reservoir computer"
Location: AIPhotonics, San Sebastian, Spain
Date: 15-18 June 2026

SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 12-17 April 2026
Adhila Nazarudeen, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Ultrafast optical computing in dispersive few-mode fibers: an extension to nonlinear tasks"
Location: SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France
Date:12 - 17 April 2026
SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 12-17 April 2026
Mohammadreza Mokhtari, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Experimental and numerical analysis of semiconductor laser network dynamics "
Location: SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France
Date:12 - 17 April 2026


SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 12-17 April 2026
Aycan Deniz Vit Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Reconfigurable Deep Photonic Recurrent Networks for Optoelectronic Information Processing "
Location: SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France
Date:12 - 17 April 2026
SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 12-17 April 2026
Aycan Deniz Vit Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Learned manifold reparameterization for DRC-compatible inverse design in silicon photonics "
Location: SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France
Date:12 - 17 April 2026

Unconventional Computing, Ettore Majorana foundation, Erice, Italy, 7-13 April
Antonino Emanuele Scurria, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Backpropagation as Physical Relaxation"
Location: Erice, Ettore Majorana foundation
Date: 7 -13 April 2026
Computing with Physical Systems, Les Houches School of Physics, France, 16-23 January 2026
Antonino Emanuele Scurria, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Equilibrium Propagation for Non-Conservative Systems: bridging physical dynamics and exact gradients"
Location: Les Houches School of Physics, France
Date: 16 - 23 January 2026
SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, 17-22 January 2026
Aycan Deniz Vit Doctoral Candidate at UGent, recently presented his work “Thermally reconfigurable broadband silicon photonic splitter”
Location: SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, USA
Date: 17 - 22 January 2026

International School on Physical Computing (ISOPC), Erice, Italy, 30 October 2025 - 4 November 2025
Sergio Navarro Reyes, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Akhetonics, recently presented his work “Topology-aware design automation for large-scale photonic interconnect routing”
Location: International School on Physical Computing
Date: 30 October - 4 November 2025

Equilibrium propagation Workshop, ULB Brussels, 29-30 September
Antonino Emanuele Scurria, POSTDIGITAL+ Doctoral Network Doctoral Candidate at Université libre de Bruxelles presented his work "Asymmetric Learning in Equilibrium Propagation"
Location: ULB, Brussels
Date: 29 - 30 September 2025
