The conference is being organized in five tracks. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following.

Communication & Networking

Chair: K. C. Ravindranathan, Professor, CET

Co-Chairs: K. A. Navas, Professor, GEC, Kannur and Sindhu D. Pillai, TKMCE, Kollam

Antennas and Propagation
Cross-layer designs
Cognitive radio systems and networking
Distributed resource allocation and scheduling
Estimation Theory
Mobile ad-hoc networks
Modulation, Coding and Diversity
Multicarrier communication systems
Next generation networking and wireless systems Routing protocols and QoS scheduling
Cooperative communications
Secure communications and Cryptography

Space time coding, MIMO and Adaptive antennas
Underwater wireless communications
Green telecommunications
Information theory on energy efficiency
Smart Grid Protocols
protocol extensions for energy efficient networks
Network load balance and smart information storage
Energy-efficient networking
Cross-layer optimizations to minimize energy consumption on a network scale
Industrial electronics

Signal Processing

Chair: R, Venkatesh Babu, IISc, Bangalore

Co-Chairs: Neelam Sinha, IIIT, Bangalore and Sabeena Beevi K, TKMCE, Kollam

Audio, Speech, Image & Video signal processing
Signal processing for communications
Sparse signal processing
Human-computer interfaces
Remote sensing
Array processing

Multidimensional signal processing
Wavelets and Filter banks
VLSI signal processing systems
Non-linear and Biomedical signal processing
Learning theory and Pattern recognition
Image processing
Sensors and sensing techniques

Power Systems & Power Electronics

Chair: Narayanan G, IISc, Bangalore

Co-Chairs: R. Sreejaya, CET and Sheeba R, TKMCE, Kollam

Distributed Generation, microgrid and smart grid
Hybrid Renewable sources
Power system modelling and simulation
Power system planning and operation
Power quality and FACTS technologies
Energy conversion techniques
Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Power electronics and Industrial Drives
Modelling, Simulation and Control of Power converters
Power converters for Renewable energy systems
Power semiconductor switches and soft switching

Instrumentation & Control

Chair: V. S. Borkar, IIT, Mumbai

Co-Chairs: Bindu G. R., CET and Asha Ravindranath, TKMCE, Kollam

Adaptive/Robust systems and control
Aerospace / Flight control and Surveillance systems
Biomedical instrumentation and control
Emerging control theory and applications
Hybrid systems Intelligent control and instrumentation

Process control and industrial automation
Robotics and Automation
Sensors and Instrumentation systems
Artificial intelligent and optimization systems
Bringing Big data to its knees by Deep learning techniques

Computing & Big Data

Chair: Prof. Umesh, IIT, Mumbai

Co-Chairs: Prof. Adbul Nazeer, NIT, Calicut, Prof. Ashraf S, IIIT, Trivandrum and Prof. Shameem Ansar, TKMCE, Kollam

Algorithmic information theory
Computability theory Cryptography & Information security
Theory of computation
Analysis of algorithms
Mathematical logic and Formal languages
Compilers
Programming languages
Operating systems
Database systems
Computer architecture & Networks
Computer vision

Big data
Data mining
Artificial intelligence
Natural language processing
Cloud computing
Distributed computing
Bioinformatics
Semantic web
Software engineering
Web technologies
E-Learning and E-Governance