Science: Climate Dynamics, Weather Extremes, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Ecology
Engineering: Critical Infrastructructure, Water Resources, Transportation Security, and Lifeline Systems
Data Science: Machine Learning, Network Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Extreme Value Theory
Interdisciplinary Methods: Knowledge Guided Data-Driven Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
Convergent Challenge: Environmental Security, Climate Adaptation, and Infrastructure Resilience
Design and decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and data analysis, Bayesian statistics, multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous and cyber-physical systems
Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration
Health care resource allocation with multi-objective resource allocation models; modeling resiliency in complex systems; design and management of outpatient health care clinics; simulation: discrete event simulation and systems dynamics; deterministic and stochastic optimization
Green manufacturing; green supply chains; disassembly modeling; remanufacturing; reverse logistics; managing end of life products; environmentally conscious manufacturing; manufacturing sustainability; reverse and closed-loop supply chains; just-in-time (jit) manufacturing and materials management; operations research: stochastic and simulation modeling
Intersection of systems biology, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to understand how biological cells work and react to drugs and environmental signals