I. COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND SYSTEMS

• Networking: Cloud & Fog/Edge Computing, Networking and Storage; Networking for Big Data; Social Networks; Network Security; IoT and Applications; AI in Networking; Wireless Networks; New Network Architectures, Paradigms and Applications
• Communication Systems: Coding and Information Theory; UWB; Ultrasonic, Under-Water Communications, Satellite Communications/GNSS; Radio-over-Fiber, Free Space and Fiber-Optic Communications; Software Defined Radio, Cognitive Radio; Cooperative Communications, Secured Communication Systems, Massive MIMO; NOMA, 5G Systems, Energy-Harvesting, Millimeter-Wave Communications, Device-to-Device Communications, Green Communications, IRS, UAV-aided Communications.

III. MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

• Microwave, Millimeter-Wave Devices/ Components Design and Techniques: Passive, Active Devices/Components, Integration Techniques, Nano-Scale Devices, Millimeter-Wave and THz Components
• Antenna and Propagation: Compact Antennas, Reconfigurable and Smart Antennas, Beam Forming, Massive MIMO Antennas, Phased Arrays, Channel Modeling and Propagation
• EM Field Theory and Simulation Techniques
• RF, Microwave and Millimeter-wave Systems and Applications: Radar, Sensing and RFID system, Wireless Power Transmission
• Other Related Technologies: Nanoscale Integration of Planar, Free-Space, and Mixed Subsystems, 3D Printed RF, RF/Microwave Applications for Internet of Space (IoS).

II. SIGNAL PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS

• Image, Video Processing, Analysis and Applications
• Computer Vision Systems and Applications
• Image Based Human-Computer Interaction
• Signal Processing in Biomedical and Communications
• Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Function Imaging
• PACS and Imaging Informatics, Smart Hospital and Health Care
• Ambient Intelligence, Machine Learning and Applications
• Audio, Acoustic Signal, Speech and Natural Language Processing
• Signal Filtering, Detection and Estimation
• Statistical Signal Processing and Modeling
• Signal and Image Encryption, Multimedia Security.

IV. ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

• Digital, mixed-signal, analog/RF/mm-wave integrated circuits and systems
• FPGA-based and embedded systems
• Emerging technologies, circuits and applications including IoT, autonomous vehicles
• EDA: System Design, Synthesis and Optimization; Formal Methods and Verification
• Architectures and Systems: NoC, Multi-Core, Video and Multimedia, Embedded Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, System-Level Power Management, IoT Devices, Hardware Security, High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data
• Application Systems: Communication, Consumer and Multimedia; Medical and Healthcare; Spacecraft Avionics, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning

II. POWER ELECTRONICS

• Power electronics devices and components
• Power converter topologies: high power converters, low power converters
• Converter modelling, design and control
• Power electronics applications: Electrical drive systems, Renewable energy power systems, Smart grids, Power Quality, Energy management Systems, Industry specific-applications.