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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modeling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

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Featured Research

Robust Machine Learning: Improving natural-robust accuracy tradeoff for adversary-resilient deep learning.

Deep learning is widely applied, yet incredibly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., virtually imperceptible perturbations that fool deep neural networks (DNNs). We aim at developing robust machine learning technology: practical defenses that yield deep learning-based systems that are resilient to adversarial examples, through better theoretical understanding of the fragility of conventional DNNs. [learn more]

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News & Events

  • EVENT  MERL Virtual Open House 2025Date of EVENT: Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025

    Join us for MERL's Virtual Open House (VOH) 2025 on November 18th. Live sessions will be held from 1:00-4:30pm EST, including an overview of recent activities by our research groups, a featured guest speaker and live interaction with our research . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL Papers, Workshops, and Talks at ICCV 2025Released: Oct 19, 2025

    MERL researchers presented 3 conference papers and 3 workshop papers, co-organized 2 workshops, and delivered 2 invited talks at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025, which was held in Honolulu, HI, USA from October . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Hongbo Sun Awarded 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Prize Paper AwardReleased: Sep 18, 2025

    Hongbo Sun has been recognized with the 2025 IEEE PES Prize Paper Award for co-authoring the paper “Methods for Analysis and Quantification of Power System Resilience”, published in the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems in 2023. The paper . . . [read more]

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