The 2026 International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) will be held 23 – 27 November 2026 at the Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre.
The 19th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS202) will also be held in conjunction with ICONIP.
Paper submissions will be accepted until 31 May 2026 contributing to theory, algorithms, models, methodologies, applications, and emerging frontiers including (but not limited to):
Theory and Algorithms – Causality and explainable AI; Computational intelligence; Control and decision theory; Constraint & uncertainty theory; Machine learning; Neurodynamics; Neural network models; Optimization; Pattern recognition; Generative & Responsible AI; Time series analysis; Privacy and security for AI
Cognitive Neurosciences – Affective and cognitive learning; Biometric systems/interfaces; Brain–machine interface; Computational psychiatry; Neuroeconomics; Neural data analysis; Reasoning and consciousness; Sensory perception; Social cognition
Human Centred Computing – Bioinformatics; Biomedical information; Healthcare; Human activity recognition; Human-centred design; Human-computer interaction; Neuromorphic hardware; Recommender systems; Social networks; Sports and rehabilitation
Applications – Big data analysis; Computational finance; Image processing & computer vision; Data mining; Information security; Information retrieval; Multimedia information processing; Natural language processing; Robotics and control; Web search and mining
ICONIP will include special sessions on
- Deep Learning Applications and Foundation Models for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture
- Multimodal Learning and Digital Twins for Advancing Affective Human-Machine Interaction.
- Scaling Intelligence: From Federated Learning to Agentic AI
- Reliable, Robust and Secure Machine Learning Algorithms.
- Intelligent Renewable Technologies for Environmental Sustainability


