MERL is seeking a highly motivated, qualified intern to join an internship program. The ideal candidate will be expected to carry out research on Advanced Signal Processing for Metasurface. The candidate is expected to develop innovative signal processing for metasurface aided various applications. Candidates should have strong knowledge about electromagnetic field analysis for metasurface, passive beamforming, interference mitigation, and channel estimation. Proficient programming skills with Python, MATLAB, and C++, and strong mathematical analysis will be additional assets to this position. Candidates in their junior or senior years of a Ph.D. program are encouraged to apply. The expected duration of the internship is 3-6 months, with a flexible start date in 2020. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.

The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to develop algorithms that reconstruct a three dimensional distribution of a radioactive source when observed using a Compton camera. The project goal is to improve the performance and develop an uncertainty analysis of these algorithms. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in 3D Compton imaging. Experience in computational tomography, imaging inverse problems, and large-scale optimization is also preferred. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration of the internships is anticipated to be 3-6 months. Start date is flexible. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.

MERL is seeking a highly motivated, qualified individual to join our internship program and conduct research in the area of photonic and nanophotonic device design and optimization using deep learning. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in the simulation (such as Lumerical FDTD), design, and testing of devices for optical communications and/or optical computing, as well as hands-on experience in deep learning (such as autoencoders and GANs using Tensorflow/Keras/PyTorch). Experience in silicon photonics, photonic crystal, plasmonicss, metasurface optics, optimization algorithms, machine learning, quantum computing, photonic device fabrication/measurements, and mask designs for InP and silicon photonic MPW would be considered an asset. Candidates who hold a Ph.D. or in their senior years of a Ph.D. program are encouraged to apply.

MERL is seeking a motivated and qualified individual to conduct research in design, modeling, and simulation of electrical machines. The ideal candidate should have solid backgrounds in modeling (including model reduction)/co-simulation of electromagnetics and thermal dynamics of electrical machines, and demonstrated capability to publish results in leading conferences/journals. Experience with ANSYS, COMSOL, and real-time control experiments involving motor drives is a strong plus. Senior Ph.D. students in electrical or mechanical engineering are encouraged to apply. Start date for this internship is flexible and the duration is about 3-6 months.