Ethnography, strategic innovation, user experience design and evaluation, personal information management, context-aware computing, persuasive computing.

Performance modeling, queueing network models of computer systems and operating systems, computer architecture

Control and optimization with special attention to aviation; air-traffic control; and collision-avoidance system design and analysis

Parallel computer architectures, parallel applications and programming models, combinatorial optimization

Theory and application of feedback control, single molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules

Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) and cooperative control

Fault diagnosis, failure analysis, logic fault modeling, digital test pattern generation, design-for-test of digital circuits and systems

Computer communication, wireless networks, Internet, network science, mobile computing

VLSI, CAD, design for reliability and variability, resonant clocking, sub-threshold circuits

Bioinformatics, Hidden Markov Models, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computation

Human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, accessibility, assistive technology, usability, empirical studies, human-centered design

Test pattern simulation and generation, fault modeling, fault diagnosis, design verification, technical writing, logic simulation.

Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired.

Multimedia systems, digital signal processing, sensor systems and networks, real-time monitoring and control, image systems, image processing, visualization, geographic information systems, decision support systems

Ethics,Philosophy of Technology,Philosophy of Engineering,Systems Theory,Control Systems

Technical writing, professional communications

Computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internet information systems, mobile computing, wireless networks

File systems, operating systems, storage, programming languages

Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, thermal modeling, process variability, energy efficient data-centers, thread level speculation, and FPGA/ASIC design

Biorobotics; Human centered robotics, medical robotics (surgery and rehabilitation), wearable robotics (exoskeleton), teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and human-machine interfaces

multi-agent systems, traffic physics, phase transitions, agent-based modeling, airspace management and control

VLSI design tools and algorithms, VLSI theory, field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA-based computing engines

Computer communications, distributed systems, policy-based routing, routing protocols,security and trust in distributed systems

Dynamics, Vibrations, Contact Mechanics, Biomechanics

Computer networking, computer architecture, optical networks

Internet working and wireless networks, with special attention to analytical modeling

Control systems, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling