• BigData analytics
• Internet of Things – IoT
• Smart systems
• Decision support
• Human-machine

Today, a computer can analyse several types of medical images as accurate as a doctor can. Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and Smart Communities are an increasingly important part of people's everyday lives and will impact a number of industries in the future: the health sector, finance, oil and gas, the transport industry and retail trade, to name a few.

NTNU offers courses and supervision ranging from traditional logic and knowledge based AI to data-driven (Big Data), via statistical learning methods like deep learning, to biologically inspired techniques such as evolutionary computing and swarm intelligence.

More info about artificial intelligence at NTNU / Some selected projects on artificial intelligence:

• Norwegian Open AI Lab captures all aspects of artificial intelligence from basic research to use.
• NTNU's Internet Of Things Laboratory is dedicated to research and development of technologies supporting the engineering and deployment of systems based on the Internet of Things.
• NTNU Cyborg
• Autonomous Adaptive Sensing
• Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation (NorwAI) 

• Cyber security
• Privacy
• Reliability, vulnerability
• Risk analysis

ICT controls or is vital to all critical infrastructure. The Internet is also in itself an important part of our critical infrastructure. This makes the modern society vulnerable to cyber-attacks and critical information infrastructure protection has emerged as a field of great interest in cyber security. The Center for Cyber and Information Security (CCIS) at NTNU is a national centre for research, education and competence building in cyber security in Norway.

More info about Security and reliability at NTNU / Some selected projects on Security and reliability:

• Center for Cyber and Information Security (CCIS)
• Norwegian Biometrics Laboratory (NBL)
• Norwegian Information Security Laboratory (NISlab)
• Applied Cryptography Laboratory (NaCl)
• Cryptography at the Algebra Group
• NTNU QUAM-lab
• Norwegian Center for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors (NORCICS) 

• Energy efficiency: Electronic components, architectures
• Computation: Algorithms, HPC, clusters, Cloud computing

For the past five decades, computer performance has enabled incredible scientific and societal advancements in such diverse fields as drug development, climate modeling, and how we interact with each other through social media. Supercomputers play a vital role in the development of these fields. However, today's systems are energy limited, which severely hampers any further improvements of their performance. A single data center can consume 100's of MW and the combined power consumption of all data centers in the USA equals the power consumption of the whole of UK. Energy efficiency is a key design challenge for future computing systems, ranging from wireless embedded client devices to high-performance computing centres. Thus, improving the energy efficiency of computer systems not only improves the performance (enabling societal and scientific advancements) but also helps reduce CO2 emissions. New technologies and innovative solutions that improve the energy efficiency of computer systems are needed to foster the continuation of scientific and societal advancements.

More info about Computation at NTNU / Some selected projects on computation:

• The research objective of the Computing (COMP) group is to develop and analyse fundamental technologies that enable the performance-sensitive computer systems and applications of the future
• Faculty Strategic Research Area: Energy Efficient Computing Systems (EECS). The EECS group's primary research efforts focus on improving the energy efficiency of computing systems across all abstraction layers—spanning disciplines such as nanoscale electronics, computer architecture, system software, and applications.
• The Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis (DNA) group.
• Center for Geophysical Forecasting (CGF)

• Automation
• Robotics
• Navigation

Autonomous cars are no longer a thing of the future; automation will revolutionize both the car and transport industry. Autonomous ships and underwater vehicles will create safer and less costly marine operations, while automatic control, smart sensors and monitoring systems will be vital to future fisheries and aquaculture. Virtual physiology, model based diagnostics and treatment and prosthesis control systems are important developments in medicine.

The cybernetics engineering community at NTNU has an international profile with a strong ambition to be a leading international research unit within its field.

More info about Autonomous systems at NTNU / Some selected projects on Autonomous systems:

• Research in engineering cybernetics at NTNU
• NTNU AMOS - Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems
• SFI AutoShip