Principal areas of study in control systems include optimal and adaptive control, system identification, robust control design, multivariable, large-scale and hybrid systems. The research activities in the Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, are concentrated on the areas of systems optimization, control systems, signal processing, telecommunications, vision and robotic systems. In all of these, a synthesis of electrical engineering, mathematics, and engineering practice is applied to generate practically useful and motivated theoretical research.