Supervised learning

Reinforcement Learning

Large Language Models

Quantum Machine Learning

Applications in Networking, Transportation, Robotics, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Biomedical, and Climate

Digital-Industrial Strategy, Business and Financial Models

Resilient and Sustainable Manufacturing & Supply Chains

Production Systems, Operations Management, Enterprise Systems

Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, AIoT

Digital transformation, Digital Twins

Energy Transition & Transportation

Innovation Commercialization & Go-to-Market @Scale

Carbon, water and material footprint of digitalization

Supply chain sustainability and resilience

Life cycle environmental impacts of emerging technology/system/service

System of systems (e.g., industry-agriculture-transportation-water-energy nexus)

Integrated system modeling at different scales

Manufacturing

Materials Processing

Microsystems Technology

Nanostructured Materials

Reinforcement Learning

Learning in Games

Applied Probability

Optimization

Control

Laser materials processing

Hybrid manufacturing systems

Rapid manufacturing of 3D bulk structural nanomaterials

Manipulation and processing of biomaterials

Multilayer functional coating

Mechanical/physical property enhancement of metals

Methods in statistical pattern recognition for high dimensional data analysis

Data fusion techniques for multisensor problems

Multiresolution methods in image analysis

Knowledge transfer in data mining

Construction safety

Risk management

Decision making

Modeling, Monitoring, and Diagnosis of Multistage Manufacturing Processes Collecting High-dimensional Streaming Data: Adaptive Sampling Strategies for Online Monitoring

Directed Graphical Models for Root Cause Analysis

Cyber-Physical Systems and Industry 4.0

IoT touch-screen devices, smart sensors, and Cloud services

Management of industrial monitoring systems and AI/ML data analytics

Innovations in Experiential Learning and Professional Development practice

Global Technology Product Management

Operations and Supply Chain Strategy

Smart Manufacturing and Process Optimization

Digital Twin and Predictive Simulation (Discrete Events and System Dynamics)

Engineering Learning Innovation and Pedagogy

Logistics Systems Planning and Design: Developing optimization-based technology for dynamic decision making

Enhancing and streamlining operations using real-time analytics

Supporting planner-in-the-loop environments for human-AI interaction

Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chains: Performance and risk analysis of critical networks (e.g., food supply chains in defense industry)

Designing transportation systems balancing economic, environmental, and social goals

System Modeling, Robust & Stochastic Optimization, Machine Learning for Optimization

Logistics –

dispatching, relocation, collaboration

Logistics –

vehicle routing with non-routineness of trips, warehouse

Optimization for plant design, work flows and layout

Interactions of optimization

Game theory and Industrial organization with applications to energy markets and environmental policy

3D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping, & Sensor Integration: CAD Modeling of Highly Complex Systems

COMSOL Multiphysics Modeling

Additive Manufacturing

Sensor Integration –

thin, flexible, low-cost sensors for structural integrity, electrophysiological signals, temperature, strain, humidity, proximity, pressure

Augmented Invisible Motion using Color Variation: Automated Computer Recognition of objects and defects

Predictive algorithms operating in real-time

VR Cave for Augmented Reality

Integration of modeling, prototyping, sensing, digital twin and predictive algorithms

Collaborative robotics, e-Work, and e-Business systems

Decision support networks for integrated production and service systems

Automation of nano and micro sensor networks

Systems security, integrity, and assurance

Nonlinear optimization and its applications

Eigenvalue computation of large sparse matrices

Computational oncology

Soliton physics

Supply Chain Network Design and Management

Logistics using emerging technologies (drones, automated vehicles)

Public transportation network design and operations

Disaster Management research

Collaboration on “

Resilient Community to Disruptions”

Distributed and Large-scale Optimization

Computational Game Theory

Variational Inequalities

Machine Learning

Big Data Analytics

Applications in Communications, Networking, Signal Processing, and Sensor Networks

Control systems

Machine learning

Networks

Energy

Transportation

Cyber-physical systems

Real-time Control of Smart Factory and Extended Enterprises via Digital-Twin

Modeling Human Decision-Making (Extended Belief-Desire-Intention Model)

Multi-paradigm Simulations (agent, discrete event, system dynamics, virtual reality)

Modeling and Control of Emerging Applications (Emergency Evacuation, Healthcare, UAV/UGV Coordination, Social Network)

Spread of [potentially] pandemic diseases through populations (local to global scale)

Spread of antigenically variable pathogens (local to global scale)

Vaccination distribution strategies/public health policy optimization (including equity)

Influence of social media messaging on health policy acceptance

ML for policy discovery

Network science for trust in heterogeneous healthcare collaborative networks

fMRI data analysis via network science

Network science, operations research, stochastic modeling, ML, algorithm design and analysis

Skilled Robots: Multimodal Robotic Co-Workers in the OR

Autonomous, Unmanned Medical Robots

Robotics for Skill Augmentation

HRI and AI: Autonomous & AI Mentoring

Assistive Robotics

Nanomanufacturing

Self-powered Nanosystems

Renewable Energy

Human-integrated Technologies

Smart sensors and electronics

Real-time decision-making in operations for semiconductor manufacturing

Supply chain management for healthcare and humanitarian operations

Human-technology interactions in technology implementation

System design and integration

Interoperable data platforms

Simulation and predictive modeling

Robust supply chains optimizing cost & delivery with resilience and sustainability

Company/user engagement and stakeholder mapping

Supply chain data platforms and solutions

Solution development & pilot with industrial partners

Performance evaluation of pilot tools

Gap identification and solution refinement

Research translation and technology transfer processes

Quantifying intraoperative workload

Developing patient-factor-based workload models

Medical device design and usability testing

Integrating wearable sensor devices to develop intelligent health systems