Summer 2026 Intern Applications Are Now Available!

Delivering high-impact
technology research

Our mission is to generate significant new knowledge
and create innovative solutions.

Data Science & System
Security

We aim to build novel big-data solutions and service
platforms to simplify computer systems management.
We also develop new information technology that
supports innovative applications, from big data
analytics to the Internet of Things.

Integrated Systems

Our goal is to innovate, design, evaluate and deliver parallel computing systems architectures for high-performance, energy-efficient enterprise computing.

Machine Learning

We have been at the forefront of developments in such areas as deep learning, support vector machines and semantic analysis for over a decade.

Media Analytics

Our team overcomes fundamental challenges in computer vision and addresses key needs in mobility, security, safety and socially-relevant AI.

Optical Networking & Sensing

From the Internet backbone to the home, optics and photonics form the foundation of modern ICT infrastructure.

NEWS

Apply for a Summer 2026 Internship

November 24, 2025

Our exciting internship opportunities for Summer 2026 are now available. We are looking for students pursuing advanced degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Internships are typically 3 months long in duration. The benefits of working for us include the opportunity to quickly become part of a project team applying cutting-edge technology to industry-leading concepts. We have opportunities in Data Science & System Security, Integrated Systems, Media Analytics, Machine Learning, and Optical Networking & Sensing.

NEC Laboratories America: Celebrating 23 Years of Research Innovation!

November 1, 2025

NEC Laboratories America celebrates 23 years of pioneering research and innovation. Emerging from the 2002 merger of NEC Research Institute and NEC C&C Research Laboratories, NECLA has become the U.S. hub for NEC’s global R&D network. Under the leadership of Dr. Christopher White, NECLA bridges the gap between scientific discovery and market-ready technology. With groundbreaking work in AI, optical networking, sensing, and system architecture, our teams continue to drive world-class innovation that shapes industries and connects the world.

Summer Highlights at NEC Labs America: Teamwork, Innovation, and Fun

August 22, 2025

This summer at NEC Laboratories America was full of energy, teamwork, and connection. From volleyball games in San Jose and TopGolf with colleagues from Princeton to kayaking adventures, a campus picnic, and celebrating our incredible interns, our teams came together to learn, laugh, and grow. Here’s a look back at the highlights that made Summer 2025 so memorable.

NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego from November 30th to December 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. This year’s lineup highlights breakthroughs in areas like multi-agent coordination, scalable training, efficient inference, and techniques for detecting LLM-generated text. Together, these contributions reflect our commitment to advancing fundamental science while building real-world solutions that strengthen industry and society. We’re excited to join the global AI community in San Diego from November 30 to December 5 to share our latest innovations.

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. 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

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.

We take a multidisciplinary approach to develop innovative solution for a broad range of research areas. Importantly, we engage with NEC business units to use these disruptive solutions to create key differentiation in NEC products and platforms, opening new markets and providing a competitive advantage to NEC Corporation.

We aim to build novel big-data solutions and service platforms to simplify complex systems management. We also develop new information technology that supports innovative applications, from big data analytics to the Internet of Things.

We innovate, design and prototype high-performance intelligent distributed systems, applications and services on communication networks like 5G and beyond. We develop next generation wireless technologies for sensing the world and improving communication networks.

Machine learning is the key technology for data analytics and artificial intelligence. Recent progress in this field opens opportunities for a wide variety of new applications. As leaders in the industry, we develop innovative technologies which are integrated into NEC’s products and services.

We solve fundamental challenges in computer vision, with a focus on understanding and interaction in 3D scenes, representation learning in visual and multimodal data, learning across domains and tasks, as well as responsible AI.

In the optical networking and sensing department, we are leading world-class optics research into the next-generation of optical networks and sensing systems that will power ICT-based social solutions for years to come.

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OUR MISSION

We aim to develop tangible solutions that address real-world challenges and bring about positive change. With a dedicated team of experts, we delve into cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, integrated systems, media analytics, and optical networking.

ABOUT US

NEC Laboratories America, Inc. (NEC Labs) is the US-based center for NEC Corporation’s global network of corporate research laboratories. We aspire to perform problem-driven research motivated by fundamental human needs with the intent to remove critical barriers and open new commercial markets. 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.

For more information, visit NEC.

NEWS

Apply for a Summer 2026 Internship

NEC Laboratories America: Celebrating 23 Years of Research Innovation!

Summer Highlights at NEC Labs America: Teamwork, Innovation, and Fun

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

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