Welcome to MERL

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

Data Analytics: Learning from data for optimal decisions.

Our data analytics work addresses predictive modeling techniques, including system identification, anomaly detection, feature selection, and time series analysis, as well as methods to solve various decision optimization problems including continuous optimization, combinatorial optimization, and sequential decision making. [learn more]

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MERL Seminar Series

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News & Events

  • AWARD  MERL Team Wins IROS 2026 Humanoid IKEA Assembly ChallengeReleased: Oct 9, 2026

    MERL's team MEL-Craft won first place in the Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge at IROS 2026, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The inaugural competition attracted approximately 34 registered teams worldwide.

    The challenge asked teams . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL contributes to IROS 2026Released: Oct 5, 2026

    MERL made broad contributions to the technical program and robotics community at the 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2026), held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. MERL researchers presented one . . . [read more]

  • NEWS  MERL Presents Five Papers at IEEE Quantum Week 2026Released: Sep 17, 2026

    MERL is pleased to announce that five papers have been accepted to the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), also known as IEEE Quantum Week 2026, held September 13–18, 2026, in Toronto, Canada.

    . . . [read more]

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    Internship Openings

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

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    Employment Openings

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

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    Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    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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