NTT Research, Inc. is a U.S. subsidiary of NTT launched in 2019 to pursue long-term, fundamental research from its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The organization operates as a standalone basic-research institution, modeling itself after historic industrial labs such as Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and its stated mission is to advance technologies that can promote positive change for humankind.
The company’s work is organized through focused research laboratories: the Physics & Informatics Lab (PHI), the Cryptography & Information Security Lab (CIS), the Medical & Health Informatics Lab (MEI), and the Physics of Artificial Intelligence Lab (PAI). These groups explore optical and quantum computing, next-generation cryptography, bio-digital twins, and the physical principles underlying artificial intelligence, often in collaboration with academic and industry partners around the world.
NTT Research operates a portfolio of basic-research laboratories focused on physics, cryptography, health informatics, and the physics of artificial intelligence.
