TRACK-I: Power Systems:

• Renewable energy technologies 

• Distributed generation and micro grid 

• Power generation, transmission & distribution 

• Intelligent energy 

• Power system instrumentation 

• Power system protection

• High voltage & insulation engineering

• Power system planning and reliability

• Power system operation and management

• Power system analysis, simulation and control

• Electrical energy market, management & economics

• FACTS controllers & HVDC system

• Power quality issues and management

• Power electronics & solid state devices

• PLC & SCADA systems

• Wide area monitoring and network control

• Network communication and control

• Signal processing applications in power systems

• Design, development and placement of smart sensors in power system

• Grid optimization

• Static and dynamic component modeling

• Power system stability and control

• Impact of distributed generation on security and reliability of power systems

• Grid challenges: Planning, interconnection, operation and control

• Transmission planning under market and regulatory uncertainty

• Protection, special schemes and control integration

• Design of power components and systems

• Intelligent monitoring of high voltage power equipment

• Black-out prevention and restoration

• Power system restructuring

• Power system economics

• Power electronics and drives

• Power quality monitoring and mitigation

• State estimation

• Probabilistic methods for energy markets and asset management

• Damage assessment and restoration modeling of power systems after earth quakes

• Condition monitoring, failure diagnosis and reliability centered maintenance

• Probabilistic approach for analysis and design of electrical machines and drives

• Energy storage design for electric power under uncertainty

• Power system security

• International coordination towards fully functioning interconnected power grid

• Energy security and sustainability analysis

• OLTC operations

• Shunt capacitor switching during emergency

• Hybrid Power Systems

• Intelligent energy distribution and management

• Energy efficient and power saving technology

• Soft computing techniques in power system

• SP based applications for power systems

• Energy conservation & harvesting

• Optimal & economic management of power system

TRACK-II: Power Electronics:

• Motor Drives and Motion Control

• Analysis and Design of Electrical Machines

• Hard switching and soft switching static power converters

• Biomedical Power Electronics

• Power Electronics in Emerging Technologies

• Power Electronics & Energy Conversion

• Distributed Generation & Micro Grids

• Grid Interactive Systems in Hybrid Renewable Systems

• FACTS and HVDC Applications in Green Energy Systems Measurement & Instrumentation Systems

• Green Buildings / Zero Energy Buildings

• Power System Protection

• Power Quality & Energy Efficiency

• Energy Storage Systems & Technologies

• Electrochemical Power Sources

• Energy and Environment

• Organic Electronics - Materials & Applications

• Communication Protocols & Computer Networking for Energy Applications

• Energy Harvesting

• Aerospace Power Applications

• Control Systems for Energy Conversion & Management

• Optimization & Computational Techniques for Green Energy Systems

• Electric & Hybrid Vehicles Prediction 

• Forecasting and Reliability Evaluation for Green Energy Systems

• Policies and Strategies for Renewable Energy Systems

• Renewable Energy Standards

• Advanced power semiconductor devices

• Soft switching, multilevel converters, matrix converters

• HFAC converters

• Integrated renewable systems

• DSP& other intelligent controllers

• Advanced batteries, energy storage devices and systems

• Power quality devices and issues

• Power management and energy efficiencies

• Smart grid technologies, net metering, feed-in tariff

• High voltage DC transmission lines

• Power converters modeling, simulation and control

• Electric machines in motion control and other

• Neural / Fuzzy Computing

• Swarm Intelligence/Machine Learning

• Smart Grid Computing techniques

• Restructured Power System

• Process Control/Embedded Systems/VLSI

• Power Quality/ Power Management Systems

• Renewable Energy

TRACK-III: Control Systems:

• Control Algorithms - Design & Applications

• Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control

• Automated Guided Vehicles

• State Estimation and System Identification

• Intelligent Mechatronics

• Process Automation

• Intelligent and AI Based Control

• Grid Computing

• Signal and Image Processing

• Computational Optimization

• Industrial systems and applications

• Control and Automation Engineering 

• Linear/Nonlinear control 

• Adaptive & optimal control 

• Network based control 

• Model predictive control

• Optimal control

• Intelligent control

• FPGA control

• Embedded systems and Networking 

• Wireless sensor networking 

• VLSI design 

• Embedded systems 

• Microprocessor based control

• Image and signal processing 

• Navigation control and algorithm 

• Robotics and Communication

• Sensors and Instrumentation

• MEMS and NANO sensor

• Sensor fusion and Optical Sensor