Research Areas, Domains and Sub Domains in Computer Science and Engineering

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

• Graph algorithms and graph drawing (computing with systems of pairwise interactions between objects such as web page links, protein interactions, or social networks)

• Computational geometry

• String and tree algorithms (for indexing and processing large textual and XML documents)

• Data compression (removing redundancy from stored information)

• Online algorithms (automated decision making)

• Quantum algorithms provide a recipe for efficiently solving practical problems on a quantum computer.

• parallel algorithms 

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

• Reinforcement learning

• Generative models

• Networks with memory

• Learning from less data and building smaller models

• Hardware for training and inference

• Simulation environments

• Statistical Learning

• Computational Photography

Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology

• Medical Information Access

• Knowledge Representation for Health-Care Guidelines

• Structure in Biomedical Data

• Biomedical Simulations

• Discovery of Gene Expression Control

• Knowledge Discovery in Clinical Databases

• Computational Biology

• Bioinformatics and Probabilistic Modeling.

Computer Architecture and Design

• new general-purpose computer architectures and computer design tools

• software-architecture interaction and co-design

• design application- and domain-specific architectures

• Clockless Logic

• Energy-efficient Computing

Computer Graphics and Visualization

• Computational Photography

• Image processing for enhanced visual content quality

• Computational geometry and graph algorithms for geometry processing

• Interactive rendering of very large geometric data sets.

• Ubiquitous displays 

• Interaction techniques for large area displays.

• Sketch based modeling and interaction for personal displays.

• Graphics Hardware,

• Animation & Simulation 

• Modeling, Rendering

• Tracking

• Virtual Environments

• Visualization

Computational Vision       

•  Registration

• Segmentation

• Shape Analysis

• Diffusion Imaging

• Biomechanical Modeling

• Image-guided Interventions

Databases and Data Mining

• database architectures

• index structures

• algorithms

• models and performance evaluation of a variety of next-generation databases and information systems. 

• data analysis and data cleansing

• data warehousing systems

• information integration tools

• search techniques

• scalable data-intensive computing

• data sharing

• data dissemination

• statistical data mining

• Data Integration

• Knowledge Discovery

• Scientific Data Management

• Visual Analytics

Networked and Distributed Systems

• communications network

• the network substrate (high-speed networks, ATM networks, wireless networks)

•  end-to-end protocols support and communication subsystem architectures (Object-Oriented frameworks)

• distributed applications (multimedia distance learning applications). 

Operating Systems

• reliable and efficient big data processing

• mobile I/O virtualization

• program analyses

Programming Languages and Systems

• Program restructuring and transformation techniques for parallelization and distribution

• Compilers for high-performance computing

• Web 2.0+ technologies such as AJAX, JavaScript, Python and Ruby

• Just-in-time compilation and optimization

• Mobile code representations, distribution and optimization

• Cloud computing software infrastructure

• Memory management 

Security, Privacy, and Cryptography

• secure communication protocols

• Cloud Computing Security

• Mobile Device Security

Software Engineering

• Hypermedia

• Analysis and testing

• Software understanding

• Environments and user-interface software

• Process/workflow

• Distributed component-based systems

• Extensible systems

• Mobile code

• Software architecture

• WWW technology and protocols

• Design Patterns & Analysis,

• Agile Methods

• Collaborative Development

• Aspect-oriented Programming

• Model Federations for Systems Science         

Natural Language Processing

• Language Generation

• Question Answering and Dialogue

• Multimodal and Grounded NLP

Networking

• Distributed Systems

• Multimedia Systems

• Internet Measurements

• Network Protocols

• Multimedia Transport

Robotics

• Planning & Algorithms

• Medical Robotics

• Manipulation

• Kinematics & Dynamics

• Human-Robot Interaction

• Robot Perception

Human-Computer Interaction

• Assistive Technology

• Haptics, Human Factors Analysis

• Sound & Audio Display

• User-Interface Toolkits

• Virtual Environments

High-Performance Computing

• Parallel Algorithms

• Programming & Memory Models for Parallel Computing

• Performance Analysis,

• Scientific Computing

• GPUs & Other Computational Accelerators

• Cyberinfrastructure