What are great Medical fields in these Systems?

What are the most interesting research studies going on in the fields of computer architecture and embedded systems?

• I am basically looking for some interesting research for a PhD.

• Answer:

  Some of the most interesting work in this space right now is around what is broadly called the "Internet of things." In the case of your specific interests, the interesting part is how to embed hardware and technology in a variety of objects and places so as to connect them up with the "cloud" and other devices. What is particularly of interest is to be able to do this so cheaply that you could have millions, perhaps billions, of cheap sensors gathering information. Imagine a sensor embedded in the road every 10 feet on every highway and surface street in the country, or under every street parking space in a city so you could instantly tell where to find the closest open parking space. There are issues of networking (including self-configuring mesh networks), power efficiency and power management, "big data" analysis, self-configuration, and security (physical, network and software).