Multiobjective and probabilistic robust control, nonlinear systems, intelligent
distributed control, adaptive control, active vision, and quantum control
- Electromagnetics
Computational electromagnetics, wave scattering and propagation, interactions
with complex media and novel materials, electrodynamics, antenna analysis
and design, scattering cross section and antenna measurements, computer
visualization, RF and microwave systems, MMIC, EMI, and EMC, and electronic
packaging
Electronic Materials and Devices
Materials and devices for
electronic, photonic, bioelectronic and MEMS applications: amorphous and
crystalline silicon, III-V compounds, organic thin films, ferroelectric
and piezo-electric; development of novel device structures and manufacturing
methods, device and circuit simulation and modeling, device and material
characterization
- Electro-Optics
Electro-optics, photonic and nonlinear optical materials, devices and
applications; tunable photonic crystals; laser switching and optical information
processing; liquid crystalline materials and devices; fiber optics and
waveguides, holography
Power Systems
Power system planning, operation, and control, intelligent system applications
to power systems, computational tools for power electronic design, and
quiet motor drives
- Remote Sensing and Space
Systems
Active (radar and lidar) and passive (radiometry) remote sensing
of the atmosphere; radar, radiometer, and lidar systems; rocket and satellite
instrumentation; atmospheric electrodynamics; meteoric effects in the
ionosphere; modeling of atmospheric processes; plasma physics
- Signal and Image Processing
Multidimensional signal processing, signal reconstruction theory and
algorithms, signal compression, spectral estimation, image processing,
medical image analysis, neural networks, multiple target tracking in clutter,
adaptive filtering, and data fusion
