1. Signal Processing and Communications Engineering

Communication theory, wireless, mobile and powerline communications, molecular communications, visible light communications, intelligent reflecting surfaces, digital communications, smart grid communications,digital communications, coding techniques and error correcting codes, Internet of Things, cooperative communications, application layer coding, communication systems design, advanced modulation formats, fiber optics device design and simulation, high bit-rate system design, optical communication, optical sensors, photonic-electronic signal processing, architecture and MAC protocol design for wireless-optical integrated networks, remote sensing, RF and microwave engineering, antenna systems, MIMO, high performance RF device modeling and design, RF and microwave subsystems, image, video, and speech signal processing, graph signal processing, computer vision, machine learning and deep learning.

2. Integrated Circuits and VLSI Systems

Digital VLSI and FPGA architectures, high level synthesis, programmable hardware accelerators, Analog, RF and mixed-Signal VLSI integrated circuits and systems, IC design for wireless and wireline communications, Circuit design for high speed serial links, emerging nanoscale devices, semiconductor device modelling, wide bandgap semiconductors, chemical sensors, self powering devices, quantum devices, power semiconductor devices, flash memory cells, transition metal oxides, 2D materials, electrical spectroscopy, sensor interfacing electronics, reliability analysis; ferroelectric-based devices; device circuit co-design; FET-based biosensors.