1. Intelligent Control, Quantum Learning System, Cognitive Modeling, Soft Computing

2. Practical applications of Control Systems theory

3. Nonlinear Systems, Multi-agent systems and their coordinated control

4. Intelligent Data Mining Algorithms and Applications, Health Monitoring and Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Systems, Soft-Computing in Modelling and Control, Machine Learning Algorithms, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics, Smart Grid, Intelligent Agents and their Applications, Intelligent Informatics, Fuzzy Controllers, Image Frame Generation, Brain Computer Machine Learning, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

5. Speech Signal Procesing and Recognition (with emphasis on Indian Languages), Speaker and Language Identification, Multi modal signal processing, Applied Signal Processing in wireless networks