This IEEE BIBM workshop is conceived as a crossroads of disciplines, perspectives, and emerging visions — a place where Network Science and AI converge to rethink Bioinformatics, Biomedicine, and Health Informatics. We invite participants from academia and industry alike to share bold concepts, experimental approaches, early discoveries, and disruptive questions that challenge conventional boundaries.
We encourage submission of short and long papers. We are planning to invite all the contribution to a special issue of a SCOPUS indexed journal..
For those joining online, please find the meeting link below: TBA
Network science is a successful paradigm for the study and understanding of complex systems, including biological systems. Pharmacology and drug discovery leverage the network biology to better understand the complex interactions between drugs, targets and disease for designing new molecule or identifying repurposed drugs. Most recently graph neural network expressed to be a potential game changer in deciphering the inherent complex interaction patterns in a complex network more precisely.
This workshop intends to highlight novel research in the area of network science and network medicine coupled with representation learning and its application to biology, medicine, and pharmacology. We try to focus on following broad areas but not limited to:
1. Network Representation Learning
2. Graph Convolution Neural Network
3. Network Embedding
4. Heterogeneous network integration
5. Network Alignment
6. Disease module detection
7. Network Drug Discovery and Repurposing
https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2026/
- Sept. 27, 2026: Due date for workshop papers submission
- Oct. 18, 2026: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
- Nov. 8, 2026: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers
- Dec. 1-4, 2026: Actual workshop dates
in person or virtual
All workshop accepted papers and posters will appear in the IEEE Conference Proceedings (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1001586/all-proceedings )
A special issue on a Scopus Indexed Journal is planned, negotiations are in progress, journal name(s) will be communicated in an upcoming announcement.
Please submit your contributions at the following link: https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2026/
Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University of Magna Graecia, Catanzaro, Italy https://dsmc.unicz.it/personale/docente/pietrohiramguzzi
Paolo Tieri, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy https://www.iac.cnr.it/personale/paolo-tieri
Manuela Petti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/users/manuela_petti
Paola Stolfi, CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy https://www.iac.cnr.it/index.php/personale/paola-stolfi
Valentina Carbonari, UniCz Italy
Annamaria Defilippo, UniCz Italy
Ugo Lomoio, UniCal Italy
Andrea Mastropietro, Uni Bonn Germany & Nara Institute of Science and Technology Japan https://www.mastro.me/
Elia Onofri, KAUST-CEMSE Saudi Arabia https://eliaonofri.it/
Caterina Francesca Perri, UniCz Italy
Swarup Roy, Tezpur University India
Daniele Santoni, CNR Italy https://www.iasi.cnr.it/~dsantoni/Welcome.html
Mario Santono, CNR Italy http://baltig.cnr.it/mario-santoro
Binon Teji, Tezpur University India