National security

International security

Artificial Intelligence

Military operations

Cyber operations

Fungal biology

Microbiology

Forest ecology

Biological oceanography

Modeling the impacts of climate and land use changes on freshwater systems

Water security

Climate, water, and ecosystem variations in the Earth’s tropical regions

Using global climate models, satellite data, and reanalysis data to study tropical climate change

Advanced materials design for energy applications and sustainability

Hybrid systems engineering and fabrication via synthetic routes

Microscopic and spectroscopic analysis of low-dimensional materials

Additive manufacturing technologies at different scales: materials, platforms and devices

Spatial Statistics

Environmental Statistics

Time Series Analysis

Machine Learning

Data Science applications involving georeferenced (mobile) data

Statistical Inference for high dimensional data

Uncertainty quantification under spatial dependence

Network Analysis

Security applications.

Remote sensing of the environment

Spectroscopy

LiDAR

Landscape change

Vegetation mapping

UAS, aerial, to spaceborne sensing

GeoAI: Deep and machine learning

UAV and satellite based phenotyping of crops

Topological data analysis

Shape analysis

Deep learning

Automated, high-throughput, intelligent robotics sensing, control, computing, and communication

Enabling data-driven infrastructure inspection and agricultural and environmental management decision-making

Spatial and spatiotemporal data modeling

Climate change

Public health

Forestry and other topics in environmental statistics

Spatial computation and modeling of community resilience/sustainability

Data science and statistics in environmental health

Geo-simulation of human and environmental systems

Geo-AI (artificial intelligence) frameworks

Integrated geo-cyber-infrastructures

Integrated sensor data for human activity recognition

Biostatistics algorithms and statistical learning techniques

Optimization modeling

Algorithm design

Stochastic optimization

Food and agriculture supply chains

Healthcare supply chains

Vehicle routing and scheduling

Transportation-Cyber-Physical Systems (T‑CPS)

Automated and connected vehicles

Traffic modeling and control

AI in Transportation

Urban mobility solutions

Traffic safety and sustainable transportation

Using Geospatial technology to build tools to automatically identify animal operations for their type, size, and location, and link to applications for besecurity, disease prevention, transportation needs, and nutrient management applications.