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Electronics & Communications

Wireless and optical communications, advanced signal processing, optical and semiconductor devices, and electro-magnetics.
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Multimedia

Efficient acquisition, representation, processing, security, and interaction of multimedia.
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Data Analytics

Predictive analytics, decision analytics, modeling, simulation, and optimization.
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Computer Vision

Computer vision and machine learning for processing data from across space and time to extract meaning and build representations of objects and events in the world.
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Mechatronics

If it moves, we control it.
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Algorithms

Practical solutions to challenging problems.
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Welcome to MERL

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is the North American arm of the Corporate R&D organization of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation.

MERL Celebrates 25 Years of Innovation

MERL conducts application-motivated basic research and advanced development in optimization, control and signal processing. As an open corporate lab, we collaborate with other research organizations, publish our results and measure our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the world.

This booklet describes current and past research at MERL: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories—25 Years of Innovation

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Featured Research

Decision Optimization: Finding optimal decisions in large, complex, sequential, and uncertain domains.

Decision analysis and optimization is concerned with making optimal choices so as to optimize key performance measures, for example minimize energy, cost, pollution, or maximize reliability, revenue, comfort, etc., usually using predictive models obtained from collected data. A lot of the decision problems that we are addressing involve significant uncertainty, and we are researching methods for stochastic optimization to handle that uncertainty from a probability and decision theory perspective. For example, the optimal scheduling of thermal power generators depends strongly on the uncertainty in power demand and output of uncontrollable renewable power sources. Similarly, the optimal operation of air conditioners in a building over a . . . [read more]

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News & Events

EVENT MERL 2nd Annual Open House Thursday, Nov 30, 2017

Snacks, demos, science: On Thursday 11/30, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) will host an open house for graduate+ students interested in internships, post-docs, and research scientist positions. The event will be held from 4-6pm and will . . . [read more]
NEWS MERL presents 5 papers at ICIP 2017, Anthony Vetro serves as general co-chair Sep 17, 2017 - Sep 20, 2017

MERL presented 5 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), which was held in Beijing, China from September 17-20, 2017. ICIP is a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and approximately 1300 people . . . [read more]
NEWS MERL attends The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Oct 4, 2017 - Oct 6, 2017

Every year, women technologists and the best minds in computing convene to highlight the contributions of women to computing. The Anita Borg Institute co-presents GHC with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

The conference . . . [read more]
NEWS MERL researchers presented 1 workshop talk as a panelist and 2 papers at ECOC 2017, including one invited talk. Sep 17, 2017 - Sep 21, 2017

Two papers from the Optical Communications team were presented at the 2017 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) held in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 2017. The papers relate to enhanced error correction coding for coherent optical . . . [read more]

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Internship Program Openings

For the students who are interested in pursuing an exciting summer of research and prototyping, we fill a number of ongoing internships every year.

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Employment Openings

We are always on the lookout for exceptional scientists and engineers to join the MERL team.

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Visiting Faculty

University faculty members are invited to spend part or all of their sabbaticals at MERL.

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