While not confined, research (including future focus) under the Board of Studies of APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSS, HBNI broadly covers the following themes:
To conduct policy oriented research into problems involving multi-disciplinary approach including interaction between natural sciences and social sciences: energy studies, energy economics, energy and ecology, perception management, health economics, nuclear security, nuclear safeguards, techno-legal issues including nuclear law and intellectual
property management, export controls, project management, knowledge management, disaster management, prospective on communicating science to society, influence of advances in technology on environment, water pollution, advanced systems analysis, science in relation to society and culture, science diplomacy, and similar others.