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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

Robust Machine Learning: Improving natural-robust accuracy tradeoff for adversary-resilient deep learning.

Deep learning is widely applied, yet incredibly vulnerable to adversarial examples, i.e., virtually imperceptible perturbations that fool deep neural networks (DNNs). We aim at developing robust machine learning technology: practical defenses that yield deep learning-based systems that are resilient to adversarial examples, through better theoretical understanding of the fragility of conventional DNNs. [learn more]

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MERL Seminar Series

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News & Events

  • NEWS  MERL contributes to 2025 European Control ConferenceReleased: Jul 10, 2025

    MERL researchers contributed to both the technical program and workshop organization at the 2025 European Control Conference (ECC), held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from June 24 to 27. ECC is one of the premier conferences in the field of control.
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  • NEWS  Jianlin Guo delivered a Keynote in IEEE ICC 2025 WorkshopReleased: Jun 17, 2025

    Jianlin Guo delivered a keynote titled "Multipath Transport in Industrial Private Wireless IoT Networks" in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025 Workshop on "Industrial Private Beyond-5G Wireless Networks", held in . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Toshiaki Koike-Akino to give a tutorial talk at ISIT 2025 Quantum HackathonReleased: Jun 13, 2025

    Toshiaki Koike-Akino is invited to present a tutorial talk at IEEE ISIT 2025 Quantum Hackathon, to be held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The talk, entitled "Emerging Quantum AI Technology", will discuss the recent trends, challenges, and applications . . . [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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    University faculty members are invited to spend part or all of their sabbaticals at MERL.

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