1. Cognitive radio, Error control coding, Wireless communications, Communications theory and Systems, Spread spectrum systems, Sensor networks, Distributed network control, Network monitoring

2. Image processing, Digital signal processing, Video coding techniques, Signals and systems, DSP Architectures, Computer vision with applications in Robotics, Signal and System Theory

3. Universal data compression with applications, Ergodic theory and large deviation theory-applications, Stochastic processes, Signal processing and systems, Communication theory, Computational methods

4. Optic networks, communications, Telecom Networks, All optical packet switching

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

6. Wireless Systems and Networks, MIMO, LTE/OFDM, UMTS/CDMA, Wireless Sensor and Ad hoc networks, Digital and Statistical Signal Processing for wireless PHY layer, Wireless Channel Estimation, Equalization and Precoding, Digital Image/Video Coding and Processing, H.264, Scalable Video Coding.

7. Development and validation of aerodynamic parameter estimation techniques using flight data

8. 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