Big data processing / Pattern analysis / Machine intelligence
Want to predict what is the best restaurant on your route to a movie? Want to recommend your next year’s fashion to your potential customers? When used correctly, the enormous amount of data generated everyday around us can potentially provide us with out-of-the-world information that is otherwise unimaginable. Data engineers address the hardware-software challenges for next-generation systems that enable us to harvest, organize, store, process, and analyze big data.
Reconfigurable computing / Engergy-efficient computer architecture
From thermostat controller and intelligent rice cooker to network router and smartphones, embedded systems are all around us. With the coming era of Internet of things where all things small and big are connected through the Internet to form a cyber-physical system, our daily lives are set to become ever closer to embedded systems of all forms. Power, performance, reliability and security are going to be major design constraints in this unique class of computer systems.
Robotics and Control
Humanoid robots / Autonomous machines
Popularized by movies and science fictions, robots are now an indispensable part of our daily lives. While robots are deployed widely in manufacturing plants today, their roles in our lives are expected to significantly expand as new technologies in remote controlled and autonomous robots continue to develop. The study in robotics equips students with software and hardware foundations to meet the challenges in next-generation robotic developments.