- Advanced Clean Engine Combustion
- Compression Ignition Combustion
- Low temperature combustion
- Homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI)
- Dual-fuel combustion
- Spark Ignition (SI) Combustion
- Diluted/Lean burn combustion
- Ignition criterion research for future high-efficiency SI engines
- Spark assisted HCCI
- Combustion control
- Adaptive combustion control
- Advanced air fuel management
- Compression Ignition Combustion
- Deterministic Ignition and Control Research
- Advanced ignition technology research (spark, corona)
- Intelligence control and self-learning optimization
- Bio-fuel Research
- High efficiency clean combustion of biofuels
- Fuel injection and spray research (ethanol, butanol, dimethyl ether)
- Modeling and Diagnosis
- Modeling of combustion, gas exchange, in-cylinder flow field
- Ignition circuit and electronics simulation
- Online heat release analysis
- In-cylinder gas sampling
- Optical diagnostics
- Ion-current detection
- Active Flow Control Exhaust After-treatment
- Periodic reversal flow control
- Space shared regeneration
- Dynamic thermal management
- Long breathing lean NOx trap (LNT)
- Hydrogen-EGR reforming