Fields of Specialisation

(A) Artificial Intelligence

1. Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering

2. Software Agents and Multiagent Systems

3. Pattern Recognition

4. Computer Vision and Speech Processing

5. Neural Networks

6. Fuzzy Logic and Applications

7. Constraint Satisfaction

8. Genetic Evolutionary Computation

9. Search

10. Bioinformatics

(B) Chinese Computing Systems

1. Intelligent Processing and Retrieval of Chinese Text

2. Chinese and Multilingual Databases

3. Computational Chinese Linguistics

(C) Computer Engineering

1. Distributed Systems

2. Reconfigurable Computing

3. VLSI Design Automation (CAD)

4. FPGA Design and Rapid Prototyping

5. Computer Architecture

6. Mobile Systems

7. Embedded Systems

(D) Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

1. Protocols Design and Implementation

2. Computer and Network Security

3. Distributed Algorithms

4. Distributed Object Oriented Systems

5. Dependability and Fault Tolerance

6. Grid Computing

7. Pervasive Computing

8. Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks

(E) Database

1. Database Theory and Design

2. Multimedia Databases

3. Sequence Data Indexing

4. Data Mining

5. Advanced Transaction Management

6. XML Database and Semistructured Data

7. Query Optimization

(F) WWW Engineering

1. E-commerce and E-business

2. Data Mining

3. Multimedia Digital Library

4. Internet Applications

5. Searching and Link Analysis

6. Mobile Internet

(G) Financial Engineering

1. Data Mining in Finance

2. Trading and Portfolio Management

3. Forecasting

4. Factor Model

5. Decision Support Systems

(H) Graphics

1. Virtual Reality

2. Interactive Computer Animation

3. Medical/Scientific Visualization

4. Time-critical Rendering

5. Virtual Robotics Simulation

6. Image-based Rendering

(I) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL)

1. Learning Theory and Algorithm

2. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

3. Machine Perception

4. Computational Finance

5. Distributed Intelligent Decision-making and Control

(J) Software Methodology

1. Software Engineering

2. Logic/Functional Programming

3. Software Tools for Database Systems

(K) Theory

1. Complexity Theory

2. Algorithms

3. Concurrent Computation

4. Graph Theory and Graph Algorithms