| Identified Thrust Areas | Sub-Areas |
| VLSI Design and Test | Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF VLSI Design System on Chip Design Testing and Verification of VLSI Design |
| Signal Processing and Communication Engineering | Next-Generation Communications Antennas and RF Communication Signal Processing: Systems, Algorithms, and Applications |
| Embedded Systems | Machine Learning for Embedded Systems Cyber-Physical Systems Embedded Vision |
| Physics | Magnetic Materials, their Composite and Thin Films for Radiation Absorbing Materials and Clean Water Nano Electronic Devices and Sensors |
| Identified Thrust Areas | Sub-Areas |
| Control and Automation | Control Engineering Industrial Automation Soft Computing Applications |
| Industrial Internet of Things [Industry 4.0] | Industrial Networking Embedded System Design Vision-based Automation |
| Biomedical Engineering | Diagnostic Instrument Design Medical Signal Processing |
| Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Techniques | Robot Control Robots for Automation Autonomous Navigation Systems AI-based Applications Customised Software Solutions |
| Sensors and Measurement Techniques | Measurement System Design Sensor Development and Applications |
| Identified Thrust Areas | Sub-Areas |
| Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning & Deep Learning Natural Language Processing Information Retrieval Big Data, Analytics and web Mining Data Visualisation and Data Engineering Recommendation Systems |
| Cyber-Physical Systems | Blockchain Technology Cryptography and Network Security Cybernetics Human-Computer Interaction Robotics Quantum Computing Internet technologies and sensor networks including ad hoc networks, delay tolerant networks, content-centric networks, software-defined networks, NDN, Internet of Things |
| Multimedia Processing and Analytics | AR/VR/MR/XR Computer Vision Image Processing |
| Advanced Computing | Green, Cloud and Multicore Computing Fog and Edge Computing |
| Software and System Engineering | Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Database Systems, Software Engineering, Operating System |
