MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

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 2022

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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

  • EVENT  MERL's Virtual Open House 2022Date of EVENT: Monday, Dec 12, 2022

    Join MERL's virtual open house on December 12th, 2022! Featuring a keynote, live sessions, research area booths, and opportunities to interact with our research team. Discover who we are and what we do, and learn about internship and employment . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL researchers presenting five papers at NeurIPS 2022Released: Nov 28, 2022

    MERL researchers are presenting 5 papers at the NeurIPS Conference, which will be held in New Orleans from Nov 29-Dec 1st, with virtual presentations in the following week. NeurIPS is one of the most prestigious and competitive international . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  Members of the Speech & Audio team elected to IEEE Technical CommitteeReleased: Nov 28, 2022

    Gordon Wichern and François Germain have been elected for 3-year terms to the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

    The AASP TC's mission is to support, . . . [read more]

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    University faculty members are invited to spend part or all of their sabbaticals at MERL.

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