Track 1: Computer Networks and Wireless Communication:

• Antennas and propagation
• Cross-layer designs,
• Cognitive radio systems and networking,
• Green communication,
• Distributed resource allocation and scheduling,
• Mobile ad-hoc networks,
• Coding and Diversity
• Multicarrier Communication Systems,
• Next generation networking and wireless systems,
• Routing protocols and QoS
• Cooperative communications,
• Secure communications and Cryptography,
• Space-Time Codes
• MIMO and Adaptive antennas,
• Multimedia Information Systems,
• Parallel and Distributed Systems,
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Optical Wireless and Communications
• Acoustic and under water electronics/communication and sonar systems

Track 2: Power System & Power Electronics:

• Distributed generation
• Microgrid and Smart grid,
• Power system modeling and simulation,
• Power system planning and operation,
• Power quality and FACTS Technologies,
• Energy conversion techniques
• Power electronics and Drives,
• Modeling, Simulation and Control of power converters,
• Power converters for Renewable Energy Systems,
• Power semiconductor switches and soft switching,
• DC/DC converters

Track 3: Environmental Engineering:

• Integrated management of environment
• Environmentally sustainable innovative approaches and methods
• Clean technology
• Marine pollution
• Biological and physicochemical treatment
• Environmental and health risk assessment
• Hazard characterization
• Environmental impact assessment
• Human health exposure and risk assessment

Track 4: Architecture:

• Architectural Design and Its Theory
• Building Technology Science
• Urban Planning and Design
• Landscape Planning and Design
• Architectural Environment & Equipment Engineering
• Ecological Architecture
• Traditional Construction Materials
• Advanced Construction Materials
• Project Management
• Sustainable structures development,

Track 5: Information Security and Cyber Security

• Data Governance and Data Leakage prevention
• Identity managment and Authentication
• Network and Endpoint Security
• Incident response management
• Enterprise Risk management Strategies
• Information Security Policies and End-user Awareness
• International Law and cyber security
• Cryptography
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Digital Forensics
• Biometrics
• Application Security, Web security
• Mobile Security, Cloud security

Track 6: Energy Efficient System in Communication Network

• Energy- and power-constrained network devices
• Energy Efficient Physical layer concepts
• Design techniques for energy efficient communications infrastructure
• Optimization and analysis in green computing and communications
• Green concepts for future wireless communications, including 5G
• Energy efficient high speed big data processing
• Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols
• Energy efficiency in data center operation
• Efficient medium access control protocols
• Energy harvesting concepts for network devices
• High speed Energy efficient signal processing techniques
• Energy efficiency in wireless and vehicular networks
• Wireless energy harvesting techniques and protocols
• Measurement and modeling of energy consumption

Track7: Speech and Pattern Recognition

• Audio, Speech, Image & Video signal processing,
• Signal processing for communications,
• Sparse signal processing,
• Human-computer interfaces,
• Remote sensing,
• Array processing,
• Multidimensional signal processing,
• Wavelets and Filter banks,
• VLSI signal processing
• Non-linear and Biomedical Signal Processing,
• Learning theory and Pattern recognition,

Track8:Modern Trends in Electronic System, Control Applications

• Design of Electronic System using Discrete Devices
• Combinational Logic Design process
• Circuit optimization for the area or/and performance
• Electronic design automation (EDA)
• Abstract modeling
• Electronic system level design tools
• Embedded electronic system design
• State-of-the-art integrated circuits design tools
• Advanced Microsystems Packaging
• Adaptive controller design
• RFIDs and Applicatons
• Feedforward Adaptive Control
• Feedback Adaptive Control
• Nonparametric Adaptive Controllers
• Parametric Adaptive Controllers
• Design of buck-boost controllers
• Sliding mode controller applications for DC-DC converters
• Efficient design of Cycloconverters
• Variable speed drive applications

Track 9:VLSI Design and Systems

• Field-programmable and Reconfigurable Systems,
• System-on-a-Chip Design,
• Application-Specific Low Power,
• VLSI System Design, ASIC
• System Issues in Complexity
• Low Power, Power Awareness in VLSI Design
• Test and Verification
• Mixed-Signal Design and Analysis
• Memory designs,High Speed Circuits,MEMS, FET
• Algorithms for VLSI System Design

Track 10: Instrumentation & Control:

• Adaptive/Robust systems and control,
• Aerospace / Flight Control and Surveillance systems,
• Biomedical instrumentation and control,
• Emerging control theory and applications,
• Fractional order systems and control, Hybrid systems,
• Intelligent control and instrumentation,
• Robotics and automation,
• Sensors and instrumentation systems.
• PID controllers using FPGA Technology,
• FPGA-based instrumentation.

Track 11: Applied Computing & Big Data:

• Image processing, Pattern recognition, Big data,
• Data mining, Artificial intelligence,
• Computer vision, Computer graphics, Cloud computing,
• Distributed computing, Bioinformatics, Semantic web,
• Software engineering, Web technologies,
• E-Learning and E-Governance, Data/Web mining and Knowledge Discovery,
• Data and Information Quality Control

Track 12: Technology Management

• Management of Technology Innovation
• Technologies Clusters and their sustainability
• Technology for growing economies
• Patents and commercialisation
• Entrepreneurship especially in High Technology Segment.
• Environment and Unconventional Energy Development
• R&D management
• Auditing and apprising R&D institutions
• Strategic Management of R&D
• Managing Hi Tech Labs
• Financing of Technology Ventures
• IP issues in Technology is Growing Economies
• Internationalisation of Technology Research
• International technology transfer and licensing
• Emergency of new business models driven by technology
• Internet based businesses and sustainability

Track 13: Natural Language Processing

• Language Translation and Transliteration
• Ontology-driven NLP
• Language Tagging with OCR
• Document Analysis and Understanding
• Character and symbol recognition
• Printed/Handwritten Text Recognition
• Graphics Analysis and Recognition
• Historical Document and Digital Libraries
• Text Linguistics, Document based Forensics
• Camera and video based scene Text Analysis
• Text to speech conversion
• Natural Language Interfaces
• Domain-Specific Translators
• Semantic tagging
• Morphological Analysis
• Text Summarization
• Language Identification
• Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis
• Opinion Mining
• Information Retrieval
• Social Networking and Privacy

Track 14:Algorithm and Data Structures

• Algorithms and Data Structures (Experimentation and Theoretical)
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Approximation Algorithms
• Complexity Theory
• Graph theory, Drawing and Information Visualization
• Graph Theory, Communication Networks, and Optimization
• Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Computational Learning Theory and Knowledge Discovery
• Cryptography, Reliability and Security, and Database Theory
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• Computational Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory

Track 15: Innovative Technologies and Services for Smart Cities

• Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Smart healthcare and emergency management and Emergency Services
• Smart buildings
• Smart data for social entrepreneurship and community engagement
• Citizen engagement and smart governance
• Data privacy and security issues in smart cities
• Smart city theory, modeling, and simulation
• Sensing and Internet of Things (IoT) for smart cities
• Smart environment and policy development
• Open data and big data analytics
• Application, deployment, test-bed, and experiences in smart cities
• Sensors and actuators
• Energy flows, consumption, production and Energy management
• Digital city and smart growth
• Cloud computing and network infrastructures to support smart cities
• Smart economy development
• Smart city for special needs
• Smart E-health systems
• Smart transportation and Pedestrian and bicyclist safety
• Safety and security systems
• Advanced communication systems and approaches for smart cities
• Connected Vehicle (CV) technologies

Track 16: Veterans and Engineering

• Energy Systems And Technology Evaluation Program (ESTEP)
• Veterans Energy Systems and Technology (VTEC)
• Disabled Veterans Workforce Development
• STEM and STEAM Education for Veterans
• Troops to Engineers Program (TEP)
• Troops to Teachers Program (TTP)

Track 17: Electrical Engineering Education

• The use of educational technology to improve student engagement
• Undergraduate student experiences in electrical/electronic engineering
• Enhancing practical laboratory work for engineering students
• Assessment strategies, including audio and video reporting
• Curriculum development focusing on graduate attributes
• Development and assessment of learning outcomes
• Gamification in electrical/electronic engineering

Track 18:Engineering...

• Manufacturing
• Aerospace
• Advanced Energy
• Fluids Engineering
• Heat Transfer
• Design Engineering
• Materials and Energy Recovery
• Applied Mechanics
• Rail Transportation
• Bioengineering
• Internal Combustion Engines
• Environmental Engineering and more...

Track 19: Art & Technology

• New media arts, science and technology
• Interactive/visual theatre, neurobiological base of acting, digital/wearable cinema
• Artificial intelligence-based art practice, web art and postmodernism
• Using analysis of artworks in conjunction with AmI to produce novel objects
• Using AmI to promote the creativity of a human user
• Autonomic sensor networks and wearable computers in the performing arts
• Computer vision and optical tracking for music and dance performance
• Cognitive intelligence and natural intelligence for the arts
• Collaborative distributed environments
• Evolutionary art systems that create
• drawings/images/animations/sculptures/poetry/text
• Evolutionary music systems that create musical pieces/sounds/instruments/voices
• Choreographing media for interactive virtual environments
• New Art and aesthetics
• Social and ethical issues in the arts and technology