Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Applied Physics

From first-principles modeling to device designs.
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Artificial Intelligence

Making machines smarter for improved safety, efficiency and comfort.
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Communications

Wireless and optical communications.
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Computational Sensing

Utilizing computation to improve sensing capabilities.
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Computer Vision

Extracting meaning and building representations of visual objects and events in the world.
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Control

If it moves, we control it.
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Data Analytics

Learning from data for optimal decisions.
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Dynamical Systems

Exploiting nonlinearity and shaping dynamics in creative and deeply mathematical ways.
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Electric Systems

Modeling & optimization of power systems and electromagnetic machines.
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Electronic and Photonic Devices

Pursuing theoretical and experimental research for next generation devices.
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Machine Learning

Data-driven approaches to design intelligent algorithms.
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Multi-Physical Modeling

Optimal design & robust control through multi-physical modeling.
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Optimization

Efficient solutions to large-scale problems.
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Robotics

Where hardware, software and machine intelligence come together.
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Signal Processing

Acquisition and processing of information.
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Speech & Audio

Audio source separation, recognition, and understanding.
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Welcome to MERL

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

Set Your Own Path - MERL Culture & Mission

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.

More detail about MERL is available in our most recent annual report: MERL Annual Report 2020

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Featured Research

Seamless Speech Recognition: A new multilingual speech recognition technology that simultaneously identifies the language spoken and recognizes the words.

We describe a new multilingual speech recognition technology that that simultaneously identifies the language spoken and recognizes the words. The system can also understand multiple people speaking either the same or different languages simultaneously. [learn more]

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News & Events

TALK Prof. David Bergman presents talk in MERL Seminar Series titled, Integration of Analytics Techniques for Algorithmic Sports Betting Tuesday, Sep 14, 2021

Speaker: Prof. David Bergman, University of Connecticut
The integration of machine learning and optimization opens the door to new modeling paradigms that have already proven successful across a broad range of industries. Sports betting is a particularly exciting application area, where recent advances . . . [read more]
NEWS Anoop Cherian gave an invited talk at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK Sep 7, 2021

Anoop Cherian, a Principal Research Scientist in MERL's Computer Vision group, gave an invited virtual talk on "InSeGAN: An Unsupervised Approach to Identical Instance Segmentation" at the Visual Information Laboratory of University of Bristol, UK. . . . [read more]
NEWS Mouhacine Benosman has been invited to speak at the data-centric engineering summit held at the Alan Turing Institute Sep 22, 2021

Mouhacine Benosman will give a talk about merging physical models with data-driven and machine learning methods for real-world application. The talk will include results about data-driven auto-tuning for feedback controllers with application to . . . [read more]
NEWS Anthony Vetro delivers keynote on robotic manipulation at inaugural IEEE Conference on Autonomous Systems Aug 12, 2021

Anthony Vetro gave a keynote at the inaugural IEEE Conference on Autonomous Systems (ICAS), which was held virtually from August 11-13, 2021. The talk focused on challenges and recent progress in the area of robotic manipulation. The conference is . . . [read more]

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Internship Program Openings

For graduate students who are interested in pursuing an exciting internship researching and prototyping, MERL has many positions available during the summer and at other times.

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Employment Openings

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

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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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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.