About
Sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation society, the 18th event of the ICIA conference series, the 2026 International Conference on Information Automation (ICIA 2026) will be held in Yinchuan, China, August 5-8, 2026, which offers a medium for researchers and practitioners to exchange and explore the issues and opportunities of electrical and computer engineering research and development from China and around the world. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and accepted ICIA 2026 papers will be indexed by EI and included in IEEE Xplore. The ICIA 2026 conference promises to offer the participants a great experience with excellent technical and social programs. High quality papers reporting original research results and innovations in all aspects of information, automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, image processing, computer vision, DSP, BME and related areas as well as their applications are invited.
The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society is committed to advancing diversity in Robotics and Automation, and to promoting an inclusive and equitable culture that welcomes, engages, and rewards all who contribute to the field, without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Important Dates
Submission of full papers and organized session proposals: May 1, 2026
Notification of paper acceptance: June 1, 2026
Submission of final camera-ready papers deadline: June 15, 2026
Committee
Steering Committee
DARWIN Caldwell, IIT
GU Jason J., Dalhousie Univ.
LI Aili, Yuanhua Technology
MENG Max Q.-H., SUSTech/CUHK
QIAO Hong, CAS Inst. Automation
SUN Yu, Univ. of Toronto
ZHANG Hong, SUSTech
ZHENG Chonghui, HIAS, UCAS
General Chairs
SONG Rui, Shandong Univ.
Program Chair
CHEN Zheng, Zhejiang Univ.
Program Regional Co-Chairs
JIA Xiao, Shandong Univ.
LUO Chaomin, Mississippi State Univ.
REN Hongliang, Chinese Univ. of HK
Organizing Chair
WANG Jiankun, SUSTech
Organizing Co-Chairs
CHI Wenzheng, Soochow Univ.
MIN Zhe, Shandong Univ.
LIU Jun, City Univ. of HK
LIU Peter X., Carleton Univ.
WANG Chaoqun, Shandong Univ.
YIN, Jianqing, BUPT
YUAN Yixuan, Chinese Univ. of HK
ZHENG Yuhua, HIAS, UCAS
Award Committee Chairs
FAROOQ Umar, Univ. of Lahore
YANG Simon X., Univ. of Guelph
Publication Chairs
SONG Shuang, HIT Shenzhen
WANG Pengyu, SUSTech/HKUST
Local Arrangement Chair
ZHANG Bo, Ningxia Univ.
Publicity Chairs
MENG Lingxiao, SUSTech
YAN Tingcui, SUSTech
Invited Speakers
Program
Coming soon.