Electrical and Computer Engineering: Research Areas

BIOMEDICAL

CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS

COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

  • Broadband Communication Networks, Network Protocols and Simulation, Internet, Network Survivability (Dr. H. Naser)
  • Millimeter-Wave Communications, Wireless communications for the Internet of Things, Resource Allocation in 5G+ networks, Stochastic Geometry and Matching Theory, Cognitive Radio Networks, UAV Communications and Networks, Estimation and detection theories, Full-duplex and Massive MIMO communications, Machine-to-Machine Communications and Networks. (Dr. S. Ikki)
  • Non-terrestrial wireless networks, reconfigurable wireless networks, communication technologies for Internet of things, resource allocation in 5G+ networks, cognitive radio networks (Dr. W. Ejaz)

COMPUTERS AND SOFTWARE

  • Computer Architecture, Deep Learning Accelerators, General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs), Parallel Programming Models (Dr. E. Atoofian)
  • AI and Data Analytics, Smart Cities, Energy Informatics, Auction Models, Blockchain and Data Privacy (Dr. A. Yassine)
  • Computer Network Software (Dr. H. Naser)
  • Semantic Web, Mobile Services (Dr. R. Benlamri)
  • Computer vision, Machine/deep learning, Natural language processing, and Data Analytics (Dr. T. Akilan)
  • Machine Learning, Data Science, Information Systems and Software Engineering (Dr. A. Alahmar)

CONTROL SYSTEMS

ELECTRON DEVICES AND SEMICONDUCTORS

POWER SYSTEMS


Applicants for the thesis-based program should indicate their research interests and desired supervisor in their application. In order to identify a potential supervisor, applicants are encouraged to contact individual professors regarding their research.