Welcome to MERL

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

Signal Processing: Acquisition and processing of information.

Our research in the area of signal processing encompasses a wide range of work in the areas of communications, sensing, estimation, localization, and speech and visual information processing. We explore novel approaches for signal acquisition and coding, methods to filter and recover signals in the presence of noise and other degrading factors, and techniques that infer meaning from the processed signals. [learn more]

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MERL Seminar Series

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News & Events

  • EVENT  MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2026Date of EVENT: Monday, May 4, 2026

    MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2026, which is being held in Barcelona, Spain from May 4-8, 2026.

    Sponsorship

    MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL hosts Boston AI Music MeetupReleased: Mar 19, 2026

    MERL hosted the Boston AI Music Meetup on March 19, 2026, bringing together researchers, musicians, and technologists from the local community to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and music. The event featured talks on emerging . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Toshiaki Koike-Akino delivers an invited talk as a panelist at OFC 2026Released: Mar 16, 2026

    MERL researcher Toshiaki Koike-Akino will serve as a panelist at OFC 2026, the premier global event for optical communications and networking, to be held in Los Angeles, March 15–19.

    Dr. Koike-Akino will participate in the special . . . [read more]

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    Internship Openings

    Year-round openings for graduate students interned in a research internship.

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    Employment Openings

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

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    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Unique opportunity for early career scientists to pursue their own research agenda.

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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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