- Date: June 5, 2017
Where: Honolulu, HI
MERL Contacts: Rui Ma; Philip Orlik; Koon Hoo Teo
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - MERL researcher Dr. Rui Ma, is organizing a Workshop in collaboration with Dr. SungWon Chung of the University of Southern California (USC) on advanced digital transmitters. This workshop overviews recent advances in digital-intensive wireless transmitter R&D for both base-stations and mobile devices. The focus will be on the digital signal processing techniques and related digital-intensive transmitter circuits and architectures for advanced modulation, linearization, spur cancellation, high efficiency encoding, and parallel processing. This workshop takes place on Monday, June 5th 2017 at International Microwave Week, in Honolulu, HI. In total, 8 technical presentations from world leading research groups will be given.
Dr. Ma will present a talk titled, "Advanced Power Encoding and Non-Contiguous Multi-Band Digital Transmitter Architectures"
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- Date: May 21, 2017 - May 25, 2017
Where: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
MERL Contacts: Kyeong Jin (K.J.) Kim; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Philip Orlik; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Five papers from the Wireless Comms team will be presented at ICC2017 to be held in Paris from 21-25 May 2017. The papers relate to channel estimation and adaptive transmission for mmWave, noncoherent MIMO, error correction coding, and video transmission.
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- Date & Time: Monday, July 10, 2017; 6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Speaker: Andrew Knyazev and other panelists, MERL
Location: David Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh PA Brief - Andrew Knyazev accepted an invitation to represent MERL at the panel on Student Careers in Business, Industry and Government at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
The format consists of a five minute introduction by each of the panelists covering their background and an overview of the mathematical and computational challenges at their organization. The introductions will be followed by questions from the students.
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- Date: March 19, 2017 - March 23, 2017
Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC)
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Five papers from the Optical Comms team will be presented at OFC2017 to be held in Los Angeles from 19-23 March 2017. The papers relate to 1Tb/s optical transmission, high performance modulation formats and error correction coding for coherent optical links and precoding for plastic optical fiber links.
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- Date: January 12, 2017
Where: Tokyo, Japan
MERL Contact: Rui Ma
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) announced today the development of an ultra-wideband gallium nitride (GaN) Doherty power amplifier for next generation base stations that is compatible with a world-leading range (company estimate) of frequency bands above 3GHz to cover an operating bandwidth of 600MHz. The technology is expected to help reduce the size and energy consumption of next generation wireless base stations.
Please see the link below for the full Mitsubishi Electric press release text.
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- Date & Time: Thursday, December 8, 2016; 4:00-7:00pm
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Anthony Vetro
Location: 201 Broadway, 8th Floor, Cambridge, MA Brief - Snacks, demos, science: On Thursday 12/8, 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 4-7pm and will feature demos & short presentations in our main areas of research: algorithms, multimedia, electronics, communications, computer vision, speech processing, optimization, machine learning, data analytics, mechatronics, dynamics, control, and robotics. MERL is a high impact publication-oriented research lab with very extensive internship and university collaboration programs. Most internships lead to publication; many of our interns and staff have gone on to notable careers at MERL and in academia. Come mix with our researchers, see our state of the art technologies, and learn about our research opportunities. Dress code: casual, with resumes.
Pre-registration for the event is strongly encouraged:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/merl-open-house-tickets-29408503626
Current internship and employment openings:
http://www.merl.com/internship/openings
http://www.merl.com/employment/employment
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2016; 3:30-6:30pm
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Anthony Vetro
Location: Sheraton Commander (16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA) Brief - MERL will be participating in the Engineering Career Fair Collaborative, which is being held on November 16, 2016 at the Sheraton Commander in Cambridge from 3:30-6:30pm. Graduate students with an interest in learning about internship and other employment opportunities at MERL are invited to visit our booth. Staff members will be on hand to discuss current openings. We will also be showing some demonstrations of current research projects.
Current internship and employment openings:
http://www.merl.com/internship/openings
http://www.merl.com/employment/employment
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- Date: October 11, 2016
Where: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MERL Contact: Rui Ma
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Dr. Rui Ma was invited to give a talk on Modern Topics in Power Amplifier, which was IEEE Chapter course organized by IEEE Boston Section.
This five week lecture series intended to give a tutorial overview of the latest developments in power amplifier technology. It began with a review of RF power amplifier concepts then teaches the modern MMIC design flow process. Efficiency, and linearization techniques were discussed in the following weeks. The course was concluded with a hands on demonstration and exercise.
Dr. Ma was addressing the advancement of Digital Transmitter as a enabling technology for next generation wireless communications.
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- Date & Time: Friday, September 23, 2016; 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM
Speaker: Dr. Earl McCune, Eridan Communications
MERL Host: Rui Ma
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief 
To maximize the operating energy efficiency of any wireless communication link requires a global optimization not only across the entire block diagram, but also including the selected signal modulation and aspects of the link operating protocol. Achieving this global optimization is first examined for the transmitter, receiver, and baseband circuitry. Then the important aspects of signal modulation necessary to access these circuit optimizations, with examples, are presented, followed by the correspondingly important protocol aspects needed. A metric called modulation-available energy efficiency (MAEE) compares proposed signals for compatibility with high energy efficiency objectives.
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- Date: September 19, 2016
Where: 2016 European Conference on Optical Communication, Dusseldorf Germany
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Four papers from the Optical Comms team will be presented at ECOC2016 to be held in Dusseldorf, Germany from 19-21 September 2016. A fifth paper in collaboration with our colleagues in Japan will also be presented. ECOC is the largest conference on optical communication in Europe. The papers relate to high performance modulation formats, nonlinearity compensation and error correction coding for coherent optical links.
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- Date & Time: Wednesday, August 17, 2016; 1 PM
Speaker: Gilles Zerah, Centre Francais en Calcul Atomique et Moleculaire-Ile-de-France (CFCAM-IdF)
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - The first part of the talk is a high-level review of modern technologies for atomic-level modelling of materials. The second part discusses band gap calculations and MERL results for semi-conductors.
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- Date & Time: Friday, July 22, 2016; 12:00 Noon
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Jinyun Zhang
Location: Cambridge Brewery Brief - MERL hosted its 2nd Annual "Women In Science Celebration". MERL's current team of female interns discussed and celebrated the contributions they've made during their internships at MERL.
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- Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Anthony Vetro
Location: Norton's Woods Conference Center at American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA Brief - MERL celebrated 25 years of innovation on Thursday, June 2 at the Norton's Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA. The event was a great success, with inspiring keynote talks, insightful panel sessions, and an exciting research showcase of MERL's latest breakthroughs.
Please visit the event page to view photos of each session, video presentations, as well as a commemorative booklet that highlights past and current research.
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- Date: May 1, 2016
MERL Contact: Rui Ma
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - EC researcher Dr. Rui Ma is recently elected to serve on IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society(MTT-S) Technical Committee (TC-20) on Wireless Communications.
The MTT-20 committee is responsible for all technical activities related to wireless communications for the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. This includes, Internet of Things (IoTs), Next-Generation/5G communications, Machine-to-Machine Communications, Emergency Communications, Satellite Communications, Internet of Space, Space Communications and all aspects related to architecture and system level theoretical and practical issues.
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- Date: March 24, 2016
Awarded to: Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Keisuke Kojima, David S. Millar, Kieran Parsons, Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Takashi Sugihara
MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Keisuke Kojima; David Millar; Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Five papers from the Optical Comms team were presented at the 2016 Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) held in Anaheim, USA in March 2016. The papers relate to enhanced modulation formats, constellation shaping, chromatic dispersion estimation, low complexity adaptive equalization and coding for coherent optical links. The top-scored paper studied optimal selection of coding and modulation sets to jointly maximize nonlinear tolerance and spectral efficiency.
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- Date: March 31, 2016
Awarded to: Andrew Knyazev
Research Areas: Control, Optimization, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - Andrew Knyazev selected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) for contributions to computational mathematics and development of numerical methods for eigenvalue problems.
Fellowship honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to the fields served by the SIAM. Andrew Knyazev was among a distinguished group of members nominated by peers and selected for the 2016 Class of Fellows.
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- Date: March 20, 2016 - March 25, 2016
Where: Shanghai, China
MERL Contacts: Petros Boufounos; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Kyeong Jin (K.J.) Kim; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Hassan Mansour; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Digital Video, Speech & Audio, Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - MERL researchers have presented 12 papers at the recent IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which was held in Shanghai, China from March 20-25, 2016. ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing, with more than 1200 papers presented and over 2000 participants.
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- Date: Thursday, June 2, 2016
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Anthony Vetro
Location: Norton's Woods Conference Center at American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA Brief - A celebration event to mark MERL's 25th anniversary will be held on Thursday, June 2 at the Norton's Woods Conference Center at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge, MA. This event will feature keynote talks, panel sessions, and a research showcase. The event itself is invitation-only, but videos and other highlights will be made available online. Further details about the program can be obtained at the link below.
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- Date: January 14, 2016
Where: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MERL Contact: Toshiaki Koike-Akino
Research Area: Communications
Brief - Toshiaki Koike-Akino gave an invited talk on recent advances in LDPC Codes for high-speed optical communications in IEEE Boston Photonics Workshop.
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- Date: March 1, 2016
Where: Tokyo, Japan
MERL Contact: Kieran Parsons
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - MERL optical transceiver technology that enables 1 Terabit per second communication speed was reported at a recent press release event in Tokyo. Please see the link below for the full Mitsubishi Electric press release text.
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- Date: March 1, 2016
Where: Tokyo, Japan
MERL Contact: Philip Orlik
Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
Brief - MERL EC researchers assisted in the development of an indoor positioning system with WiFi and acoustic based ranging technologies. Please see the link below for the full Mitsubishi Electric press release.
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- Date & Time: Tuesday, August 4, 2015; 12:00
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Jinyun Zhang
Location: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Brief - To celebrate "Women in Science at MERL," a luncheon event was organized on August 4. Eleven female interns, three female researchers, and female members of HQ staff, interns, hosts/managers and MERL executives participated in that event. All female interns introduced their research projects and their positive experiences at MERL; female researchers shared their own career development stories; and at the end all discussed how to be successful in the field of science. Every participant was inspired to continue contributing to the future of science.
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- Date: June 4, 2015
MERL Contact: Koon Hoo Teo
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electronic and Photonic Devices
Brief - Li Zhu, Koon Hoo Teo and Qun Gao's paper, 'Dynamic On-resistance and Tunneling Based De-trapping in GaN HEMT,' was awarded the "Best Student Poster Award" at the IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits (EDSSC) 2015.
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- Date: June 1, 2015
MERL Contact: Rui Ma
Research Areas: Communications, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Signal Processing
Brief - Rui Ma has been elected as Vice Chair of the IEEE Boston Section Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Chapter.
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- Date: May 13, 2015 - May 15, 2015
MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; William Yerazunis; Koon Hoo Teo
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - Description: Bingnan Wang presented a paper, 'Circularly Polarized Near Field for Resonant Wireless Power Transfer' at the recently held IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference in Boulder, Colorado from May 13-15, 2015.
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