(1) Anthropological methods for the contemporary world with specially attention to the interface between science and technology and anthropology. Co-editor, book series Experimental Futures: Technological Lives, Scientific Arts, Anthropological Voices.
(2) The anthropology of the biomedical sciences and technologies: the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Human Geonome Organization (HUGO) on social and ethical issues associated with genomics and with capacity building in the Asia-Pacific region.
(3) The anthropology of media circuits, with foci of regional attention on the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia.