General areas for study and research:
Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Control of chemical and biological dynamic processes
- Optimal design of systems for material processing
- Manipulation of matter at atomic and molecular scale
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Structural health monitoring and adaptive structures
- Water resources
- Earthquake detection and protective design
- Remote sensing of natural resources
- Urban planning and engineering
Computer Science
- Theory and practice of computation for physical systems
- Game playing, photo identification, and semantic identification
- Real-time algorithms for measurement, prediction, and control
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Databases, Internet security, and privacy
Electrical Engineering
- Information theory
- Electricity, microelectronics, and electromagnetism
- Digital circuits and computation
- Image processing, face, and character recognition
- Video analysis and manipulation
- Telecommunications networks
- Autonomous vehicles
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
- Robotic devices and systems
- Autonomous air, sea, undersea, and land vehicles
- Space exploration and development
- Intelligent control systems
- Biomimetic modeling, dynamics, and control
- Cooperating robots for manufacturing and assembly
- Cooperative control of natural and engineered groups
- Identification of dynamic system models
- Optimal state estimation and control
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
- Intelligent transportation systems
- Financial management and risk analysis
- Dynamic resource management
- Decision science
- Optimal design
Philosophy
- Knowledge, reasoning, and language
- Logic and metaphysics
- Politics and art of robotics and intelligent systems
Psychology
- Inference, reasoning, problem solving
- Human factors and human-machine interaction
- Human motor control
- Modeling perception
- Neural network (connectionist) modeling of cognitive functions
- Reinforcement learning
- Study of brain function using functional magnetic response imaging, electrical, and optical methods