- Low temperature combustion
- Homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI)
- Dual-fuel combustion
- Diluted/Lean burn combustion
- Ignition criterion research for future high-efficiency SI engines
- HCCI lean combustion control using spark ignition
- Adaptive combustion control
- Advanced air fuel management
- Advanced ignition technology research (spark, corona)
- High speed flame propagation
- Intelligence control and self-learning optimization
- High-efficiency clean combustion of biofuels
- Fuel injection and spray research (ethanol, butanol, dimethyl ether)
- 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
- Space shared flow concept
- Dynamic thermal management
- Long breathing lean NOx trap (LNT)
- Catalytic - EGR reforming