In response to the call from the 2021 IMS Survey report to expand membership from emerging areas of data science, underrepresented groups, and from regions outside of North America, the IMS has launched the annual IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS). 

The objective of ICSDS is to bring together researchers in statistics and data science from academia, industry, and government in a stimulating setting to exchange ideas on the developments of modern statistics, machine learning, and broadly defined theory, methods, and applications in data science. 

Following the successes of 2022 ICSDS in Florence Italy, 2023 ICSDS in Lisbon Portugal, 2024 ICSDS in Nice France, and the 2025 ICSDS in Seville Spain, the 2026 ICSDS is scheduled to be held on December 15-18 in Split, Croatia. There will be again student paper award competition, in addition to plenary sessions, and invited, contributed and poster sessions. Moreover, there will be two tutorial/survey sessions on important emerging topics provided by leading experts. To encourage more participation of junior researchers, a portion of the invited sessions will be designated for junior researchers and some funds will be available for travel support for junior researcher.

We look forward to seeing you in Split in December 2026!

IMS ICSDS 2026 Organizing Team

Regina Liu, Annie Qu, and Min Xu, Program Co-chairs

Arlene Gray, Administrative