MERL is looking for a highly motivated individual to work on safe control of data-driven, uncertain, dynamical systems. The research will develop novel optimization and learning-based control algorithms to guarantee safety in various industrial applications, including autonomous driving. The ideal candidate should have experience in either one or multiple of the following topics: optimal control under uncertainty, (convex and non-convex) optimization, and (reinforcement and statistical) learning. Ph.D. students in engineering or mathematics with a focus on control, optimization, and learning are encouraged to apply. A successful internship will result in the submission of relevant results to peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals, and the development of well-documented (Python/MATLAB) code for MERL. The expected duration of the internship is 3-6 months, and the 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 highly motivated interns for research positions in guidance, navigation, and control of spacecraft. The ideal candidates have experience in one or more of the following topics: astrodynamics, the three-body problem, relative motion dynamics, rendezvous, attitude control, orbit control, orbit determination, nonlinear estimation, computer vision, and optimization-based control. PhD students in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering are encouraged to apply. Publication of results produced during the internship is expected. The duration of the internships are 3-6 months, and the start dates are 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 looking for a highly motivated intern to conduct research on data-driven energy management strategies for (hybrid) electric vehicles. The candidate will develop methods that use data, e.g., of human drivers or traffic conditions, in order to improve the control of electric vehicles. The ideal candidate will have experience in either one or multiple of the following topics: model predictive control, machine learning, statistical learning, numerical optimization, and (inverse) optimal control. Prior experience with (hybrid) electric vehicles is a plus. Good programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or C/C++ are required. PhD students in engineering or mathematics with a focus on control theory or numerical optimization are encouraged to apply. Publication of relevant results in conference proceedings or journals is expected. The expected duration of the internship is 3-6 months. The 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 and qualified intern to collaborate with the Control for Autonomy team in the development of hybrid control algorithms for cyberphysical system. The potential subjects include formal methods for control synthesis, control barrier-functions, stabilizing control for hybrid dynamical systems, and optimal control of hybrid dynamics. The ideal candidate is expected to be working towards a PhD with strong emphasis in control theory, and to have interest and background in as many as possible among: predictive control, Lyapunov stability, formal methods for control, constrained control, optimization, and machine learning. Good programming skills in MATLAB, and/or Python are required. The expected duration of the internship is in the Spring of 2021, for a duration of 3-6 months. 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 intern to research multi-agent motion planning by combining optimization-based methods with machine learning. The ideal candidate is enrolled in a PhD program in Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics, Computer Science or related program, with prior experience in multi-agent motion planning, machine learning (especially supervised, reinforcement, and safe ML), and convex and non-convex optimization. A successful internship will result in innovative methods for multiagent planning, in the development of well-documented (Python/MATLAB) code for validating the proposed methods, and in the submission of relevant results for publication in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and journals. The expected duration of the internship is 3 months with a flexible start date in the Spring/Summer 2021. 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 motivated and qualified individual to conduct research in modeling, simulation and control of aircraft electrical power system. The ideal candidate should have solid backgrounds in dynamic modeling and simulation of power electronics and electrical machine, and transient analysis of overall electrical power system. Demonstrated experience in physical modeling and simulation software/language such as Modelica or Simscape is a necessity. Knowledge of aircraft dynamics and aerodynamics is a big plus. Senior Ph.D. students in aerospace, electrical engineering, control are encouraged to apply. Start date for this internship is flexible and the duration is about 3 months.

The Muti-Physics and Dynamics (MD) group at MERL is seeking a highly motivated, qualified individual to join our internship program in the summer of 2021. The ideal candidate will be a senior Ph.D. student specializing in fluid mechanics, control, turbulence modeling, reduced-order modeling, and non-convex optimization. Research experience in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), data-assimilations, continuous and discreet adjoint methods is highly desirable. Familiarity with computational programming languages like Python, Fortran or C++ (openFOAM level) is expected. Publication of results obtained during the internship is expected. The starting date is flexible between April-June 2021, and the internship will last 3-4 months. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary. 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 Signal Processing (SP) group at MERL is seeking a highly motivated intern to conduct fundamental research in mutual interference mitigation for automotive radar. Previous experience in waveform design, radar detection under interference, joint communication and sensing, interference mitigation, and deep learning for radar is highly preferred. Knowledge about automotive radar schemes (MIMO and waveform modulation, e.g., FMCW, PMCW, and OFDM) is a plus. The intern will collaborate with a small group of MERL researchers to develop novel algorithms, design experiments using MERL in-house testbed, and prepare results for patents and publication. Senior Ph.D. students with research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, optimization, applied mathematics, or related areas are encouraged to apply. The expected duration of the internship is 3 months with a flexible start date.

The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to assist in the development of computational methods for a variety of sensing applications. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in any of the following, or related areas: imaging inverse problems, learning for inverse problems, large-scale optimization, blind inverse scattering, radar/lidar/sonar imaging, sensing of dynamical systems, or wave-based inversion. Experience with experimentally measured data is desirable. 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.

The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to develop algorithms that solve inverse problems in computational sensing that incorporate deep learning architectures for a variety of sensing applications. The project goal is to improve the performance and develop an analysis of algorithms used for inverse problems by incorporating new tools from machine learning and artificial intelligence. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in any of the following, or related areas: imaging inverse problems, large-scale optimization, plug-and-play priors, learning-based modeling for imaging, learning theory for computational imaging, and Koopman theory/dynamic mode decomposition. 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.

The Signal Processing (SP) group at MERL is seeking a highly motivated intern to conduct fundamental research in learning-based wireless sensing using communication signals (such as WiFi, Bluetooth, 5G) and other RF signals (such as FMCW). Previous experience in occupancy sensing, people counting, localization, device-free pose/gesture recognition, and skeleton tracking with deep learning is highly preferred. Familiarity with IEEE 802.11 (g/n/ac/ad/ay)standards is a plus. The intern will collaborate with a small group of MERL researchers to develop novel algorithms, design experiments using MERL in-house testbed, and prepare results for publication. Senior Ph.D. students with research focuses on wireless communications, machine learning, signal processing, optimization, applied mathematics, or related areas are encouraged to apply. The expected duration of the internship is 3 months with a flexible start date. This internship is preferred to be onsite at MERL, but may be done remotely where you live if the COVID pandemic makes it necessary.