Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation’s North American research organization, located in Cambridge, MA (USA). MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modelling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are one of the most academically-oriented and open industrial research labs in the world, publishing our results in leading conferences and journals, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.