The Applied Computing Lab comprises both a degree-granting academic program and a research program.

Following the success of ICCAIS 2012, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and Informatics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology is proud to host the Second International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2013) from November 25-28, 2013, co-organized by University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City. ICCAIS 2013 (IEEE Conf. No. 31270), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Vietnam Section, will be held at the beautiful beach front city of Nha Trang ( the most popular tourist destination in Vietnam), Vietnam. This conference provides a forum for regional and international researchers, engineers and practitioners to get together, discuss and present relevant achievements, challenges, innovation as well as future direction in control, automation and information sciences research and practice.

Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

Linear / Nonlinear Control
Nonlinear Systems
Process Control and Monitoring
Adaptive / Robust Control
Model Predictive Control
Intelligent Control
Precision Motion Control
Networked Control Systems
System Identification and Parameter Estimation
Modeling and Simulation
Nonlinear filtering and smoothing
Mobile Robot Navigation, Guidance and Control
Field Robotics
Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Bio-robotics and Medical Robotics
Humanoid Robotics
Man-Machine Interaction
Intelligent Building
Finite Set Statistics
Probability Hypothesis Density Filtering
Target Tracking
Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking
Data Fusion
Sensor/Resource Management
Bio-medical Signal Processing
Image processing
Machine learning
Data Mining
Natural Language Processing