Embodied Intelligence, spanning robotics, computer vision, and machine learning, visual place recognition, localization, navigation, image retrieval, and scene understanding—key capabilities for autonomous robotic systems.

Stochastic operations research, primarily at the intersection of stochastic processes, reinforcement learning, and (behavioural) game theory

Understanding the processes of structural change that is unfolding in India, and what these changes entail for different social and economic groups of individuals.

Urban studies, smart cities, public policies of digitalization, digital tools for governance, data-driven governance, GovTech

Cyber Security, Embedded Systems, Critical Infrastructures, Formal Methods, Embedded Software and Hardware Design, System Level Languages, Smart Grid, Smart Infrastructures

Various aspects of algorithm design and machine learning applied mostly to problems in language and speech processing and other related problems

Statistical signal processing, compressed sensing, optimization, and machine learning

Formal methods, Programming languages, Software engineering, and Trustworthy AI.

Sustainable computing, Efficient AI processing at edge and cloud, Compute-in-memory, RISC-V HW-SW ecosystem, probabilistic AI systems, Edge robotics, Next-gen computing

Scientific visualization, computational topology, topological data analysis, and their applications.