1. Genetics and Genomics. The researchers I have worked with closely in the past have been outstanding scientists who have highlighted a huge room for computer engineers to step in and reap the benefits of applying software engineering and to a large extent - algorithms to solve large scale problems in the quantitative aspects of genetics and genomics. To give you a broad example, such methods are used in the breeding industry to find suitable mating bulls for cows to achieve a certain goal/feature - milk production, beef, even reduction in methane in their offsprings. I can only imagine the need for such methods in food and medicine which are huge industries.

2. spatial computing : If Apple’s foray into it has validated anything, it is that it is just getting started and it holds a lot of unrealized potential.

3. Robotics - it has been important for a long while, but its trajectory is still upwards and reach very promising.