The 2025 21st International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2025) was held in Ningbo, China from July 26 to 29. The conference was hosted by the Society of International Computing, organized by Ningbo University and Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, and co-organized by Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, Ningbo Key Laboratory of Multi-Omics & Multimodal Data Mining and Computing, Ningbo EIT Industrial Technology Institute, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and Xinjiang Institute of Engineering. Themed “Advanced Intelligent Computing Methodologies and Applications”, the conference was specially supported by the High-level Academic Exchanges and Innovation Activities on Key Platforms of Ningbo Association for Science and Technology Ningbo Science and Technology Zone and technically guided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and International Neural Network Society (INNS).
At the opening ceremony, Dai Shixun, Vice President of Ningbo University, and Bao Shudi, Assistant to the President of Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, delivered speeches on behalf of the organizer and co-organizers, respectively. Huang Deshuang, Chairperson of the conference, introduced the contribution and review situation of the conference, and extended a warm welcome and sincere gratitude to all participating guests, experts and scholars. Professor Zeng Wenjun, Vice President of Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, and leaders from Science and Technology Department of Anhui University, International Office of Ningbo University, Science and Technology Department of Ningbo University, Scientific Research Department of Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, College of Artificial Intelligence of Tianjin University of Science and Technology, and School of Information of Ningbo University attended the conference.
The conference took place at the main forum, offline sub-forums and online sub-forums. At the main forum on the morning of July 27, 4 professors, including Professor Jeannette M. Wing, Academician of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Executive Vice President of the Columbia University in the City of New York; Professor Dong Jinsong, Co-chair of the conference and Fellow of the Engineers Australia (EA); Professor Ling Haibin, IEEE Fellow, from Westlake University; and Professor Zhou Jiantao, a renowned young scholar in information security and chair of Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau, delivered wonderful keynote speeches. At the main forum on the morning of July 28, 12 young scholars, including Researcher Wang Shanshan from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Researcher Miao Zhichao from Guangzhou Laboratory, Professor Wang Handing from Xidian University, Professor Zhang Wen from Huazhong Agricultural University, Professor Li Ming from Zhejiang Normal University, Dr. Wu Fabai from Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, Dr. Chen Linwei from Beijing Institute of Technology, Dr. Xu Yuhua from Donghua University, Dr. Huang Longyang from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Jia Xiaojun from Nanyang Technological University, Dr. Su Xiaorui from Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Wang Zehua from the University of British Columbia, made highlight reports.
As a CCF Class C international academic conference in computer and artificial intelligence, a total of 4,032 papers were received with 1,729 included. More than 1,000 experts, talents and young scholars from universities and research institutes at home and abroad and industrial representatives attended the conference on site, delivering oral presentations in 8 parallel sub-forums and presenting posters at 2 serial sub-forums every day. More than 800 authors delivered oral representations and had exchanges in the online conference room at 15 parallel sub-forums every day. The themes of sub-forums included intelligent network, picture processing, natural language processing and computational linguistics, intelligent computing, computer vision, pattern recognition, knowledge discovery and data mining, swarm intelligence and optimization, neural network, reinforcement learning, machine learning, information security, intelligent picture and file extraction, bioinformatics theory and methods, biological data modeling and mining, and computational biology. The conference was live-streamed globally via videos and pictures on the live-broadcasting platform, with over 50,000 hits. This provided a valuable platform for academic exchanges and cooperation for scholars in artificial intelligence and intelligent computing worldwide. The themes of sub-forums included intelligent network, picture processing, natural language processing and computational linguistics, intelligent computing,
Proceedings of this conference, consisting of 40 volumes, have been published by Springer-Nature, from which 4 best oral presentation papers and 2 best poster presentation papers have been selected. To express gratitude to the experts and scholars for their hard work, the conference also selected 3 Excellent Program Committee members and 21 Excellent Reviewers, and held an award ceremony at the dinner.
The numbers of both contributions and participants at this conference were historically high. The conference affairs and volunteer team, consisting of nearly 50 teachers and students from the Department of Computer Science, School of Information of Ningbo University, Ningbo Institute of Digital Twin, and Ningbo Key Laboratory of Multi-Omics & Multimodal Data Mining and Computing, who worked closely together, ensures the smooth running of the conference.
The conference has expanded the research partners of Ningbo University in artificial intelligence, and promoted the scientific research and application of the university in the cutting-edge fields of artificial intelligence, such as intelligent computing, machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, large language model, and agent. The university will, taking the opportunity of this conference, further meet the demand of Ningbo’s “361” trillion-level industrial clusters for intelligent technologies, serve the construction of the “315” scientific and technological innovation system in Zhejiang Province, and deeply implement the “artificial intelligence+” action, facilitating the transformation and upgrading of the digital and intelligent economic society.
