Broadband wireless access, low-power, wide-area networks for IoT, ultra-high-reliability and low-latency networks, 5G test beds, IoT systems networking, machine learning and artificial intelligence for communication networking; coding for communication and storage.: .

Algorithmic statistics, decentralised, distributed, and/or communication aspects of optimisation, learning and control at scale, inverse problems and high-dimensional statistics, network information theory, quantum information theory, information theory of learning, machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence..: .

Wave-material interactions at high frequencies; III-V technologies for RF chipsets, radio design for Mm-wave and THz bands, mixed-signal design; beyond 3 THz nonlaser wireless optics; antennas, radar applications; computational electromagnetics.: .

Photonic integrated circuits, applications to WDM networks, microwave photonics, micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems and sensors;solid state devices, quantum electronics, light-matter interactions and optoelectronics; nonlinear and quantum effects; quantum communication and quantum computing, including quantum information, coding, key distribution, sources and detectors, free-space, fibre-optic, and on-chip quantum systems..: .

Networked autonomous robotic systems including driverless cars, drones, robots; smart cities and artificial intelligence for social good, socio-technical and cyber-social system of systems; large-scale sensing, IoT networking, middleware platforms; biological and social networks.: .

Communication security, data security, computer and network security, block chain, digital transactions, digital currency, machine learning for security, cloud and distributed storage security, coding approaches to security, security of cyber-physical systems, post-quantum cryptography..: .