Research

Research at MERL

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization. MERL is an open lab, publishing our results and collaborating with the world-wide research community. We conduct application motivated basic research and advanced development in the areas below:

• Applied Physics
  From first-principles modeling to device designs.
• Artificial Intelligence
  Making machines smarter for improved safety, efficiency and comfort.
• Communications
  Wireless and optical communications.
• Computational Sensing
  Utilizing computation to improve sensing capabilities.
• Computer Vision
  Extracting meaning and building representations of visual objects and events in the world.
• Control
  If it moves, we control it.
• Data Analytics
  Learning from data for optimal decisions.
• Dynamical Systems
  Exploiting nonlinearity and shaping dynamics in creative and deeply mathematical ways.
• Electric Systems
  Modeling & optimization of power systems and electromagnetic machines.
• Electronic and Photonic Devices
  Pursuing theoretical and experimental research for next generation devices.
• Machine Learning
  Data-driven approaches to design intelligent algorithms.
• Multi-Physical Modeling
  Optimal design & robust control through multi-physical modeling.
• Optimization
  Efficient solutions to large-scale problems.
• Robotics
  Where hardware, software and machine intelligence come together.
• Signal Processing
  Acquisition and processing of information.
• Speech & Audio
  Audio source separation, recognition, and understanding.