COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing - Distributed and Parallel Computing, Multi-core and GPU Computing, High Performance Computing, Database and Data Mining - Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing - Mobile Computing - CSE Education - Scientific and Engineering Computing - Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing - Advanced Networking and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing - CSE applications (bioinformatics, global optimization problems, computer graphics and multimedia, data mining, signal and image processing, etc) COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKING Channel measurements and modeling - Coding and modulation techniques - OFDM technology - Cognitive Radio - Antennas and propagation - MIMO - theory and trials - Spread Spectrum and CDMA systems - Space-time coding, Ultra Wide-Band Communications - Broadband Wireless Access, Next-generation Networks, Secure communications - Mobile ad-hoc, Mesh, Cooperative, Sensor Networks - Home networking -Cross Layer Design -Embedded Internet devices a€“ New and enhanced services - Resource and information management - Adaptive QoS provisioning - End-to-end QoS - Optical Communications and Networks POWER & ENERGY Power Quality - Smart Grids - Design, Control and Management ,Demand Response, Advanced Metering Infrastructure, Interoperability Standards - Home Energy Management Systems, Protection - RAM (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability) - Grid integration of renewable energy source -plug-in electric vehicles - co-energy - distributed generation - efficiency and conservation - Solar energy - Hydro energy - Wind energy - wind turbines - Ocean energy: tidal and wave -Biomass, Biofuels - Energy Harvesting - other alternative and renewable means of power generation SIGNAL PROCESSING & VLSI Signal Processing Algorithms & Architectures - Smart antennas and tracking algorithms, Signal separation & identification - Adaptive and Array Signal Processing - Audio, Speech, Image & Video Signal Processing - Underwater Communications and Signal Processing - VLSI for Communication & Signal Processing - Non-linear and Biomedical Signal Processing, Spoken Language Processing - Unconventional Applications of Signal Processing - Compressive Sensing and Applications - Detection and Estimation Techniques - Emerging Trends in VLSI - Nanoelectronics -MEMS, VLSI Circuits and Systems - Field-programmable and Reconfigurable Systems - System Level Design - System-on-a-Chip Design - System Issues in Complexity, Low Power, Heat Dissipation - Power Awareness in VLSI Design - Test and Verification - Mixed- Signal Design and Analysis - Electrical/Packaging Co-Design INTERDISCIPLINARY & HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING Disaster management - Distributed Generation & Communications Solutions for Isolated - Communities,Solutions for the Differently-abled - Space Applications for Development - Preventive Humanitarian Action - Environmental Engineering - Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptations - Sustainable Energy Use -Education Technologies - Enabling Technologies for Human Development - Engineering for Common Property Resources (Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries) - ICT use in Social Development, Biomedical and Medical Technologies Logistics & Transportation Engineering, Water Resources Management, e-Waste engineering.