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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

Speech & Audio: Audio source separation, recognition, and understanding.

Our current research focuses on application of machine learning to estimation and inference problems in speech and audio processing. Topics include end-to-end speech recognition and enhancement, acoustic modeling and analysis, statistical dialog systems, as well as natural language understanding and adaptive multimodal interfaces. [learn more]

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MERL Seminar Series

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News & Events

  • NEWS  MERL researchers present 7 papers at CDC 2024Released: Dec 26, 2024

    MERL researchers presented 7 papers at the recently concluded Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024 in Milan, Italy. The papers covered a wide range of topics including safety shielding for stochastic model predictive control, reinforcement . . . [read more]

  • AWARD  MERL Wins Awards at NeurIPS LLM Privacy ChallengeReleased: Dec 17, 2024

    The Mitsubishi Electric Privacy Enhancing Technologies (MEL-PETs) team, consisting of a collaboration of MERL and Mitsubishi Electric researchers, won awards at the NeurIPS 2024 Large Language Model (LLM) Privacy Challenge. In the Blue Team track of . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL Researchers to Present 2 Conference and 11 Workshop Papers at NeurIPS 2024Released: Dec 5, 2024

    MERL researchers will attend and present the following papers at the 2024 Advances in Neural Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Conference and Workshops.

    1. "RETR: Multi-View Radar Detection Transformer for Indoor Perception" by Ryoma . . . [read more]

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

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

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    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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