Current Activities

Activities in 25-26:

• Conference organization

  • Prof. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi* serves as Technical Program Chair for the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE CIBCB 2025) and the IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE EMBS BHI 2025).

  • Dr. Leo Zhang* serves as the Local chair for the 33rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025) and the The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025).

• Special sessions, workshops/symposiums, and competitions

  • Dr. Catherine Huang* and Prof. Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi* organized and participated in special sessions on Ethical AI at IJCNN 2025, and served as a panelist on Responsible AI for CAI 2025.

  • Dr. Catherine Huang* will serve as the IJCNN 2026 data competition chai

• Tutorials, keynote and plenary talks, and webinars

  • Prof. Huiyu Zhou*, invited talks/keynotes in ICIPAI 2025, AIPR 2025, ODIN'25 with MICCAI, CVIPPR 2025.

• Journal special issues

  • Dr. Peilan Xu, Prof. Wenjian Luo*, Dr. Hansheng Lei, Applied Soft Computing special issue on Robust and Secure AI Systems, inviting cutting-edge research on adversarial robustness and security

  • Professor Wenjian Luo*, Professor Maoguo Gong, Professor Ishfaq Ahmad, Journal of Information Security and Applications special issue on Security and Privacy in Large AI Models

• Other events aiming to promote the research, application and education relevant to Neural Networks

  • Dr. Catherine Huang* serves as the NNTC vice-chair on communications and education 2025-2026