Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 88, March 2026
Editorial
Featured Article
Academic Corner
Industry Corner
Student Corner
Society News
- About the Society
- Board of Governors
- Welcome to nine new SMC Student Branch Chapters from around the globe: (1) University of New South Wales – Canberra, (2) Zhejiang University (Nanjing), (3) St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology (Madras), (4) Kalyani Government Engineering College (Kolkata), (5) University of Engineering and Management (Kolkata), (6) Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education (Madras), (7) Universidade Federal da Paraiba (Brazil), (8) National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Tech (Kolkata), and (9) KL Education Foundation – Bowrampet (Hyderabad)!
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Daoyi Dong’s lecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. MengChu Zhou’s lectures at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Lingnan University, HK
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Maria Pia Fanti’s lecture at IEEE TechX Tunisia, Sousse Tunisia
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Maria Pia Fanti’s lectures at the Australian National University and University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Giancarlo Fortino’s lecture at New Delhi, India
- Distinguished Lecture Report: Prof. Yo-Ping Huang’s lecture at the University of Texas at Arlington
- Report on the 2025 IEEE Tunisian Student and Young Professional (TSYP) Congress, held at the Medina Congress Center, Tunisia
- Report on the 2026 PhD Winter School on Autonomous Systems, held in Politecnico di Bari, Italy in January 2026
- Check out the 2026 Call for IEEE SMC Collaboration and Engagement Proposals
- Meet the new 2026 New Technical Committee and Subcommittee Members
- Announcing the launch of a new SMCS Technical Committee on Trustworthy and Controllable Intelligent Systems
- Report from the Tunisia Section SMC Day 1.0 event
Call for Papers and Call for Participation:
- Call for Participation, Second IEEE International Symposium on E-CARGO and Applications and the IEEE International Summer School on Social Intelligence, July 13-15, 2026, Meizhou, China (link CFP_CARGO2026.pdf). Please note the following extended deadlines:
- April 1, 2026 (Extended) – Submission deadline
- May 1, 2026 (Extended) – Author Notifications
- June 1, 2026 (Extended) – Final papers due
- June 1, 2026 (Extended) – Author Early Bird registrations deadline
- Call for participation, IEEE SMC ICHMS 2026 at NTU Singapore; July 1-3, 2026.
- Call for participation, 2026 Summer School on Telerobotics and Cyborg Technologies, July 13-17, 2026, RIT, Rochester, NY. Open to graduate students and postdocs.
- Call for participation, 3rd IEEE Cybersecurity for AI and AI for Cybersecurity (C4AI4C) Workshop at IEEE CAI 2026, Granada, Spain, May 8-10, 2026
- Call for Papers, IEEE SMC 2026 (October 4-7, 2026), Bellevue, WA. Deadline: March 22, 2026.
- Call for Papers, IEEE Brain-Machine Interface Workshop, (October 4-7, 2026), Bellevue, WA. Deadline: March 22, 2026.
- Call for Papers, 3rd IEEE Conference on Telepresence (November 9-13, 2026), Bristol, UK. Deadline for Full Papers: June 12, 2026; short papers: August 3, 2026.
- Call for Papers, 2nd International Symposium on Machine Learning and Media Computing (MLMC 2026), July 27-30, 2026; Deadline: March 20, 2026
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
Call for Papers for Special Issues:
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
- IEEE SMC Transactions on Human Machine Systems
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:
- Featured Articles: research ideas, discussions on emerging areas, debatable issues
- 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
Please submit articles in Word format, which should contain all text, diagrams, images, and your photo, biography and contact information (name, email address, and website), to Professor Tiago H. Falk at [email protected].
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