Robotics, Automation and Control

• Soft robots and morphological computation

• Context-aware human-robot interaction

• Mechatronics / Systems modeling and control

• Robots for flexible manufacturing 

• Industrial informatics, welfare robot / rehabilitation 

• Biomedical applications

Solid State Drives and Control

• Power electronics in traction and automotive

• Bio-medical power electronics

• Micro-Electromechnical systems (MEMS)

• Power conversion (e.g, Ac, Dc Inverters)

Sustainable Power and Energy Systems

• Sustainable alternative energy sources

• Demand Management with Variable Supplies

• Reliability and Resiliency

• Electricity Supply to Rural and Remote Communities

Disaster Management, Welfare, and Rehabilitation

• Sensing the earth, oceans, and atmosphere 

• Information processing, interpretation, and dissemination

• Environmental systems and risk analysis

• Environmental management

Nano Technology for Sustainable Development

• Modeling and simulation of nano materials and nanodevices

• Nanodevices fabrication

• System integration, NEMS

• Reliability of nano device and system

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

• Quality of Service and Reliability for Automation and Sustainability

• Next Generation Communication Technologies

• Cyber-Physical Systems

• Software Defined Networks and Network Function Visualization

Intelligent Machines and Man-machine Co-existence

• Pattern recognition  / Image Processing

• Machine learning / Expert Systems /

• Decision Support Systems / Soft-Computing

• Data Fusion, Data Mining

Smart Systems 

• Devices, Technologies, Systems Modeling and Simulation,

• Sensor Networks

• Internet of Things and Big Data,

• Smart Cities  and Smart Buildings