Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 86, September 2025
Editorial
Featured Article
Academic Corner
Industry Corner
Student Corner
- Interview with Vincenzo Barbuto from University of Calabria, Italy
- Interview with Giannis Petousakis from University of Manchester, UK
Society News
- About the Society
- Board of Governors
- Welcome to new IEEE SCMS Student Branch Chapter at the BNM Institute of Technology
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Ming Hou’s talk at Concordia University, Canada
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Daoyi Dong at Chongqing University, China
- Meet the new SMCS Technical Committee on Fully Actuated System Approach
- Report from the IEEE SMC Italy Chapter – SMC Italy Day and the Award for Excellence of Early Career Researchers
- Report on the 2025 IEEE Brain Discovery and Neurotechnology Workshop
- Report on the 2nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Telepresence
Call for Papers and Call for Participation:
- Call for Participation: IEEE SMC 2025 and IEEE SMC BMI Workshop: October 5-8, 2025, Vienna, Austria.
- Call for Participation: International Conference on Brain Informatics, November 11-13, 2025, Bari, Italy.
- Call for Participation: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, October 21-24, 2025, Hakodate City, Hokkaido, Japan.
- Call for Participation: 16th IFAC Symposium on Analysis, Design, and Evaluation of Human-Machine Systems (IFAC HMS 2025), November 18-21, 2025, Beijing, China.
- Call for Papers: 6th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (IEEE CYB 2026), April 17-20, 2026, Nanjing China.
- Call for Papers: 2026 IEEE CogSIMA, March 9-12, 2026, Tempe, Arizona.
Society Publications Table of Contents:
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
- IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Magazine
- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Letters
Call for Papers for Special Issues:
- IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Magazine
- IEEE SMC Transactions on Human Machine Systems
- Brain Discovery and Neurotechnology. Deadline: October 31, 2025.
Job Openings
Student fellowship openings and scholarships
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Recod.ai), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil.
Submission Guidelines
This eNewsletter aims to serve SMC society members by providing a useful platform for information exchange. News is published on an ongoing basis and can be accessed free of charge on the Society’s website.
The eNewsletter invites submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
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- Research Activities: information about a research group and its activities
- Meeting Reports: information about conferences and workshops
- Call for papers/participants: books, special issues, conferences, workshops
- Technical Committees: TC activities
- Local Chapters: chapter activities
- Research Opportunities: job openings, funding opportunities
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