Modeling and systems design

Design of optimal logistic systems and supply chains

• Use of RFID in logistic system design
• In-plant logistics optimal design techniques
• Lean implementation in small businesses (SME)
• Design, Optimization and Management of Robust Supply Networks
• Design of Integrated Robust Production Planning and Scheduling Systems

Control of complex dynamical systems

• Stability and stabilisation, optimization of dynamical systems, modeling and regulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems, machine learning, data mining, evolutionary optimization, synchronisation of oscillators, control of discrete event systems, feedback control for on-line management of networks and Imprecise probabilities as knowledge representations
• Electrical machines and drives
• Power systems
• Metamodelling of complex systems

Stochastic modeling of systems

• Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Communication Systems

Signal processing

• Image Processing and Interpretation
• Design and analysis of signal processing algorithms for estimation and detection in the context of digital communications
• Database, document and content management systems
• Biomedical signal processing and source reconstruction
• Biomedical image reconstruction algorithms
• Speech processing: speech analysis, synthesis and recognition
• Music processing: automatic music content analysis for music information retrieval
• Metadata & semantic web technology (metadata modeling using Semantic Web technologies, formalizing existing metadata models and instances, automatic and domain-independent problem-solving algorithms, based on formalized knowledge)
• Modeling of wireless systems
• Wireless and cable
• Internet Based Communication Networks and Services
• Network modelling and design
• Content and search management
• Data Analysis and machine learning

Neural networks and Reservoir computing

• Reservoir lab

Computer architecture: modelling and optimization

• Computer systems lab

Multiphysics modeling and numerical simulations

• Electromagnetic simulation techniques and theory
• Modeling of large electromagnetics problems
• Design and Modeling of antennas and propagation
• Low frequency electromagnetic fields and magnetic materials
• Numerical (low frequency) magnetism and micromagnetism
• Modeling Radiofrequency heating of fusion plasmas
• Mathematical aspects of general relativity
• Development of Clifford analysis and its applications to functional analysis, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, integral geometry, spin geometry, wavelet analysis and image processing, distributions
• Numerical simulation of steel bridge structures
• Simulation tools for liquid crystals and organic light emitting diodes
• Numerical simulations of turbulent combustion
• Numerical simulations in fire research
• Numerical simulations on Alternative fuels for spark ignition engines
• Convection-diffusion-reaction problems
• Simulation of fluid-structure interaction
• (Fluid) mechanical aspects of and transport processes in a native organ or system, in artificial organs and prosthetic devices
• Numerical and physical modelling of flow in rivers and canals

Multiscale modeling of chemical production processes

• First principle chemical kinetics of industrially relevant reactions
• Reactive fluid dynamics
• Ab initio radical and catalytic chemistry
• Catalytic reaction kinetics and reactors
• Thermal reaction kinetics and reactors

Atomic-level tailoring of nanomaterials

• Materials modelling on the nanoscale
• Nanoporous materials
• Nano-micro-meso-macro multiscale modeling of composites
• Ab initio radical and catalytic chemistry