Multimedia databases, biological databases, text databases, spatial databases, distributed databases, replication, caching. Pattern matching, genome-wide analysis, comparative genomics, structural genomics, shotgun sequence assembly, motif finding.
Model linkage/integration, ecological and risk modeling, environmental decision analysis.
Design optimization, design sensitivity analysis, computational mechanics, computational acoustics, mesh-free method.
Software engineering; internet technologies, real-time control, industrial applications of microcontrollers.
Molecular and multi-scale modeling, nanoscale transport phenomena, and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics.
Structural behavior under severe dynamic loads, survivability and fragility of critical
facilities subject to blast, shock,
impact and vibrations.
Computer aided design, rapid prototyping, design optimization and finite element methods.