Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is the US subsidiary of the Corporate R&D organization of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. MERL does basic and applied research in the areas of multi-physical modeling and simulation, 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.