The Applied Computing Lab comprises both a degree-granting academic program and a research program. 

Following the success of ICCAIS 2012, the Institute of Applied Mechanics and Informatics, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology is proud to host the Second International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2013) from November 25-28, 2013, co-organized by University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City. ICCAIS 2013 (IEEE Conf. No. 31270), technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Vietnam Section, will be held at the beautiful beach front city of Nha Trang ( the most popular tourist destination in Vietnam), Vietnam. This conference provides a forum for regional and international researchers, engineers and practitioners to get together, discuss and present relevant achievements, challenges, innovation as well as future direction in control, automation and information sciences research and practice.

Topics of the conference include but are not limited to:

    Linear / Nonlinear Control
    Nonlinear Systems
    Process Control and Monitoring
    Adaptive / Robust Control
    Model Predictive Control
    Intelligent Control
    Precision Motion Control
    Networked Control Systems
    System Identification and Parameter Estimation
    Modeling and Simulation
    Nonlinear filtering and smoothing
    Mobile Robot Navigation, Guidance and Control
    Field Robotics
    Unmanned Vehicle Systems
    Bio-robotics and Medical Robotics
    Humanoid Robotics
    Man-Machine Interaction
    Intelligent Building
    Finite Set Statistics
    Probability Hypothesis Density Filtering
    Target Tracking
    Multi-Sensor Multi-Target Tracking
    Data Fusion
    Sensor/Resource Management
    Bio-medical Signal Processing
    Image processing
    Machine learning
    Data Mining
    Natural Language Processing