Currently XJTLU is identifying following research areas where it may jump start, quickly establish international leadership and post immediate impacts to the society: 
  

• Energy futures: social and technological choices

• Living in the digital age: Human - computer interaction: design, social networks 

• Finance, risk and hazard management

• Sustainable urbanisation

• Health technologies in society

• Emerging economies

• Diagnostic markers, therapeutic targets, and drug discovery

• Languages, communication and culture

• Nanotechnology and new materials

Last updated April 2012