Corrosion, Wear and Degradation of Materials, Surface Engineering, Laser Materials Processing, Biomaterials, Friction Stir Processing.

Micro Scale Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer Enhancement, Chaos, Fire Engineering, Indoor Air Quality Measurements and Simulation.

Automotive engines, drive trains and chassis, Intelligent automotive and active safety systems, Fluid power engineering, Mechanical vibration, Medical applications of artificial intelligence.

MEMS/NEMS, Micro/Nano Systems, Micro/Nano Manipulation/Assembly, Computational Intelligence, Advanced and Intelligent Control, Prognosis and Diagnosis, Structural Health Monitoring, Sensors and Actuators, Smart Materials and Structures, Robotics and Automation.

Computer vision, SLAM, mobile robotics, multi-view geometry, motion planning etc. with applications to autonomous driving, mobile robot navigation, intelligent transportation system etc.

Phase transformation phenomena of metallic materials, Mechanical/Magnetic behavior and testing of metals, Engineering mechanics, Laser materials processing, Non-destructive evaluation of residual stresses.

Fire Resistance Test and Modeling of Smoke Management, Indoor Air Quality, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Two Phase Turbulent Flow, Numerical Linear Algebra.

Renewable Energy and Solar Energy Systems, Thermal Dispersion in Porous Medium, Three Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Oscillating Flows and Heat Transfer, Microencapsulated Slurries of PCM, Indoor Air Quality.

Ergonomics, Enterprise Resource Planning, Knowledge Management, RFID, Innovative Product Design, Engineering Management, Partnership Development, Optical Instrumentation for Manufacturing Processes, CAD/CAM Systems.

Collaborative Product Development, Product Reuse, Product Lifecycle Management, CAD/CAM, Condition Monitoring, Mass Customization, Feature Recognition.

Metal forming, Metal cutting, Manufacturing processes, Machine-tools, CAD/CAM/CNC, Metal Workshop, Tribology, Industrial Metrology, Experimental Techniques.

Soft electronics for human-machine interface, including: Functional soft composite materials, Conformal bio-electronic interactive interface, Integrated wearable/implantable soft electronic system.

Advanced fabrication technology of soft materials, Bioinspired design of soft materials, Soft material engineering

Networked control, Multi-agent systems, Learning-based control, Intelligent systems, Cooperative control of mobile robots (UAVs and UGVs), Soft Robot.

Self-powered systems, active sensors, mechanical actuators, and soft robots.

Chaos theory, fractional calculus, nonlinear dynamics, control theory, computational fluid dynamics, fire safety engineering.