Energy management, smart grid, and home automation systems
Low power, embedded WiFi components and system design / development
Contributions to multiple US national and international communications standards.
Design, development, and optimization of multiple proprietary protocols, ranging from low power WiFi through distributed biometrics and video analytics systems to factory automation and process control.
Hardware / software system architecture design, implementation, integration, and deployment for biometric modalities ranging from iris and face to fingerprint. Implementation of proprietary iris recognition algorithms
Mobile Biometrics: Biometric applications hosted on mobile (cell phone class) devices
Algoithm implementation and application development utilizing massively parallel (primarily GPU based) computational acceleration
Cyber Security: Develop standards for and qualify test equipment vendors to perform network vulnerability testing in SCADA environments
Implement advanced security concept demonstrations for SCADA and process control applications.
Research demonstrations of algorithms and systems ranging from high quality image capture under extreme conditions of distance, illumination, and motion, to object detection and recognition from video and still images
Design, testing, and firmware implementation of embedded systems ranging from very small (single microcontroller) peripherals and motion controls to reusable electronics platform used for configuration, data collection, and development of medical implant devices
Full stack mobile platform and application development including android and other embedded linux platforms
Technologies, algorithms and tools for data mining application