The Data Management Department of NEC Labs America, located in the Silicon Valley, is seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students for summer internships to make a big impact and be part of fascinating research activities in data management. Successful candidates will have an opportunity to work with NEC Labs researchers to explore technological breakthroughs and gain insights on the industrial aspects of advanced research. In addition to contributing to NEC’s business, our research has been published in premier venues. For instance, last year our group had 5 papers in SIGMOD 2014 conference, most of them co-authored with our past interns. The current research focus of the group is creating cutting edge technologies for Data Management. The topics for the internships include but not limited to: - Data Management support for Machine Learning - Big Data Analytics - Graph Analytics and Graph Query Processing - Query Processing and Optimization in the Cloud - Resource and Workload Management in the Cloud - Information Sharing and Collaboration - Mobile Data Management |