Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Power, Energy and High Voltage Engineering

• Planning, operation and control of power system
• Smart grids and active distribution networks
• Microgrids and standalone power systems
• Power system protection, reliability & resiliency
• Power system education
• Power quality
• Electricity markets and system economics
• New modeling and simulation approaches
• Circuits, systems, control and application of power electronics
• Electrical machines and drives
• Problems of the Power Industry
• Socio-economic impact of electric power system
• Renewable and sustainable energy technologies
• Distributed, embedded & dispersed generation
• Grid integration of new technologies
• Carbon pricing and low-carbon energy policy
• Energy management, policies and regulation
• Impact of high penetration of renewable energy sources
• Electric vehicles and transportation
• Alternative Energy and the Environment
• High voltage testing and diagnosis
• Asset management and condition monitoring
• Lightning protection
• Alternative Insulation materials

Artificial Intelligence, Signal and Image Processing

• Audio, Acoustic and Speech Signal Processing
• Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
• Design and Implementation of Signal and Image Processing Systems
• Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing
• Signal Processing for Industrial Applications
• Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in Signal processing
• Information Forensics and Security
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning for Signal Processing
• Internet of Things
• Computer Vision for Stereoscopic and Multi-view Systems and 3D Processing
• Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) in Image Analysis
• Signal and Image Processing for Remote Sensing and Geo Science
• Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing
• Signal Processing for Communication Systems and Networking
• Signal Processing for Smart Systems
• Signal Processing for Education
• Signal Processing for the Smart Grid
• Image Segmentation and Analysis
• Computational Imaging
• Image and Video Restoration and Enhancement
• Color, Multi Spectral and Hyper Spectral Imaging
• Deep Learning for Image and Video Processing
• Biometrics, Motion Estimation and Biological Image Processing
• Detection, Recognition and Classification of Images
• Image and Video Compression and Coding
• Image Interpretation and Understanding

Controls, Robotics and Automation

• Control Systems
• Smart Robotics Science and Technology
• Intelligent Robots
• Industry 4.0 Applications
• Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
• Informatics in Control, Automation, and Robotics
• Underwater Robotics
• Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles
• Mechatronics
• Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions

Computer, Embedded and Intelligent Systems and Data Engineering

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), expert systems, and evolutionary computing
• Big data analysis
• Computer and data networking
• Cryptography, cryptanalysis, and computer security and privacy
• Data fusion, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Distributed systems and cloud computing
• Hardware-software co-design and reconfigurable computing
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Operating systems, compilers, programming languages
• Pattern recognition and computer vision
• Power-aware design and computing
• Real-time systems
• System reliability and security
• Software engineering

Communications and Information Technology

• PHY layer wireless solutions, LTE-Advanced, 5G technologies, cloud architectures
• Optical and photonic communications
• Wireless and sensor networks
• Antennas, propagation, and computational electromagnetics
• Microwave theory and techniques, mmWave and sub-THz communication
• Radar, sonar, and remote sensing applications
• Multi-antenna communication systems, massive MIMO, Cloud RAN, distributed antenna systems
• OFDM, multi-carrier modulation, waveform design
• MAC layer design, routing in wireless networks and Cross layer optimization
• Congestion and admission control
• WLAN, WPAN, and other home/personal networking technologies
• Architectures and design of cognitive radio networks
• Security and privacy for mobile and wireless networks, information systems
• Energy efficient design and energy harvesting for Green communications
• Internet-of-Things (IoT), applications, technologies and testbeds
• Software defined networks, network slicing and softwarization
• Wireless sensor, ad hoc, and vehicular networks, mobile social networks
• Fog computing and networking, mobile edge computing
• Visible light communication (VLC) networks
• Localization and ranging techniques for communication applications
• Context and location-aware wireless services and applications, E-health, network data analytics
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for networking and communications
• Satellite and space communications and networking

Electronics, Instrumentation and Bio-medical Engineering

• Industrial electronics and instrumentation
• Biomedical electronics and instrumentation
• Biomedical Sensors
• Medical Devices
• Brain-Machine Interfacing
• Microelectronic design, manufacturing, and integration
• Optoelectronics & photonics
• Power electronic topologies and applications
• Precision instrumentation and measurements
• Nanoelectronic systems, components & devices
• Nanosensors
• Smart sensors and instrumentation systems
• Automobile electronics