The IFCS 2026 program offers a broad and comprehensive overview of current advances in statistics and data science, featuring over 40 thematic sessions across multiple scientific tracks.

From Symbolic Data Analysis to Bayesian Modeling, from Model-Based Clustering to Functional Data Analysis, from Interpretable Machine Learning to Network Analysis, the program reflects the multidimensional nature of contemporary research.

Major thematic areas include:

  • Clustering and Classification of Complex Data Structures
  • Statistical Learning and Data Mining
  • Model-Based Clustering
  • Network Analysis and Blockmodeling
  • Functional Data Analysis
  • Robust Methods for Multivariate Data
  • Optimization in Classification and Clustering
  • Data Science in Economics, Finance and Management
  • Health Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence in Government
  • Compositional Data Analysis
  • Data Science in Education

Sessions cover both cutting-edge theoretical developments and impactful applications in:

  • Biomedical and health sciences
  • Economics and finance
  • Social and political research
  • Industrial and business data
  • Education

To date, we are delighted to confirm the following sessions and their speakers:

CLAD invited session: Recent Advances in Symbolic Data Analysis
Organiser: Paula Brito
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Speakers:
Eufrásio Lima Neto; Oldemar Rodriguez; Lynne Billard; Sonia Dias
CLADAG invited session: Advances in Latent Structure Modeling
Organiser: Luca Frigau
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Speakers:
Johan Lyrvall; Maria Francesca Marino; Giorgia Zaccaria; Andrea Carta
GFKL invited session: Data-driven Models for Bioinformatics and System Biology
Organisers: Hans Kestler; Adalbert Wilhelm
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Speakers:
Steve Hoffmann; Oliver Kohlbacher; Iris Pigeot; Sarah Friedrich-Welz
JCS invited session: Statistical Modeling and Dimensionality Reduction
Organiser: Yoshiro Yamamoto
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Speakers:
Yuichi Mori; Naoto Yamashita; Hiroyasu Abe; Hiroe Seto
MDAG invited session: Multivariate Visualization in Action
Organiser: Raeesa Ganey
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Speakers:
Rosaria Lombardo; Roelof Coetzer; Nompilo Mabaso; Johan Ferreira
BDSS invited session: Cluster Validation
Organisers: Julia Handl; Christian Hennig
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Speakers:
Adán José-Garcia; Ricardo Campello; Connor Simpson; Zdeněk Šulc; Davide Chicco
SEIO-AMyC invited session: New Tools and Methods for Complex Datasets
Organiser: Aurea Grané
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Speakers:
Marcos Álvarez; Jordi Saperas; Alberto Suárez; Amparo Baíllo
SEIO-AMyC invited session: Variable Selection and Influence in Classification Problems
Organiser: Aurea Grané
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Speakers:
Miguel Ramos; Eva Boj; Ignacio Cascos; Fabio Scielzo-Ortiz
SFC invited session: Hierarchical and Overlapping Clustering Systems: New Theoretical Developments and Applications
Organiser: Jean Diatta
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Speakers:
Patrice Bertrand; Nadia Tahiri; Julien Ah-Pine; Pascal Préa
SSS invited session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling I
Organisers: Vladimir Batagelj; Anuška Ferligoj
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Speakers:
Fabio Telarico; Maria Prosperina Vitale; Anuška Ferligoj; Vladimir Batagelj
Network Clustering and Blockmodeling II
Organiser: Riccardo Rastelli
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Speakers:
Silvia D’Angelo; Francesco Bartolucci; Ioannis Ntzoufras; Tabea Rebafka
VOC invited session: Interpretable Machine Learning: Inference, Interactions and Causality
Organiser: Marjolein Fokkema
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Giorgio Spaddacini; Mark van de Wiel; Roman Hornung; Gabriel Bucur
Advances in Learning from Complex Contaminated Data
Organiser: Andrea Cappozzo
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Speakers:
Arthur White; Houyem Demni; Fabio Centofanti; Christian Hennig
GSDA invited session: Classification, Dimensionality Reduction, and Clustering for Mixed-Type Data
Organiser: Angelos Markos
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Speakers:
Efthymios Costa; Carlo Cavicchia; Patrick Groenen; Alfonso Iodice D’Enza
Advances in Functional and Multivariate Data Modeling
Organiser: Luigi Augugliaro
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Speakers:
Luigi Augugliaro; Frédéric Ferraty; Valeria Vitelli; Gerda Claeskens
Graphical Models and Statistical Learning for Network Data
Organiser: Gianluca Sottile
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Speakers:
Alberto Roverato; Maarten Marsman; Antonino Abbruzzo; Roberto Rondinelli
Advances in Model-Based Clustering
Organiser: Luca Scrucca
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Speakers:
Tanzy Love; Andrea Cappozzo; Laura Anderlucci; Derek Young
SAFE Artificial Intelligence
Organiser: Paolo Giudici
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Speakers:
Gennaro Auricchio; Gloria Polinesi; Alessandro Piergallini; Sofia Vei
SDS invited session – From Data to Insights: The Explainability–Predictability Trade-Off
Organiser: Paola Cerchiello
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Erwan Scornet; Daniel Traian Pele; Marzio De Corato; Danilo Bruschi
Tackling Complexity with Mixture Modeling Approaches
Organiser: Cristina Tortora
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Sanjeena Dang; Luca Scrucca; Alexa Sochaniwsky; Bettina Gruen
Object Oriented Spatial Statistics
Organiser: Piercesare Secchi
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Speakers:
Luigi Ippoliti; Rosaria Ignaccolo; Karthik Bharath; Teresa Bortolotti
Robust Multivariate Methodologies
Organiser: Claudio Agostinelli
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Speakers:
Luis Angel Garcia Escudero; Giacomo Francisci; Anand Vidyashankar; Yuexiao Dong
ISBIS: Advances in Clustering and Classification for Business and Industrial Data
Organiser: Matilde Bini
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Speakers:
Giulia Contu; Carmela Iorio; Bruno Damásio; Marco Ortu
Advances in Finite Mixture Models
Organiser: Roberto Rocci
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Roberto Di Mari; Paul McNicholas; Francesca Martella; Marta Nai Ruscone
Advances in Second Generation Functional Data Analysis for High Dimensional Structures
Organiser: Elvira Romano
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Speakers:
Ci-Ren Jiang; Roberto Rocci; Carlo Zaccardi; Nicoletta D’Angelo
Advances in Robust Statistics: New Methods for New Challenges
Organiser: Fabio Centofanti
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Speakers:
Patricia Puchhammer; Can Hakan Dağıdır; Giovanni Saraceno; Stefan Van Aelst
SKAD invited session: Network-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Financial Systems
Organisers: Anna Denkowska; Stanisław Wanat
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Speakers:
Joanna Landmesser-Rusek; Anna Denkowska; Krystian Szczęsny; Przemysław Rola
Advances in Hidden Markov Models
Organiser: Salvatore Daniele Tomarchio
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Speakers:
Luca Brusa; Luca Merlo; Luca Scaffidi Domianello; Mackenzie Neal
Models and Computational Aspects for High-Dimensional and Complex Data
Organiser: Anuradha Roy
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Speakers:
Cristina Anton; Rosanna Verde; Justine Shults; M. Rosário Oliveira
IASC organized session: High-Dimensional Data and Statistical Learning
Organisers: Paulo Canas Rodrigues; Rosaria Lombardo; Francesco Palumbo
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Johanè Nienkemper-Swanepoel; Gabriele Soffritti; Sara Taskinen
IASE organized session: Data Science Teaching and Learning
Organiser: Daniel Frischemeier
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Rolf Biehler; Sarah Schönbrodt; Aisling Leavy; Joachim Engel
IMS organized session: New Aspects of Data Science and Discovery
Organiser: Regina Liu
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Holger Rootzen; Dennis Lin; Pavlo Mozharovskyi; George Michailidis
Clustering of Complex Data Structures
Organiser: Marta Nai Ruscone
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Salvatore Ingrassia; Cristina Tortora; Jesse Ghashti; Shuchismita Sarkar
Compositional Data
Organisers: Anna Fiori; Leo Pasquazzi
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Sara Sommariva; Roberto Ascari; Connie Stewart; Glòria Mateu
Advances in Bayesian Computation and Inference
Organiser: Tommaso Rigon
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Speakers:
Jordan Bryan; Francesca Crucinio; Chiara Magnani; Francesco Pozza
Statistical Methods for Heterogeneous Data in Political and Biomedical Sciences
Organisers: Roberto Ascari; Alice Giampino
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Speakers:
Gabriele Pittarello; Anja Rieker; Agnese M. Di Brisco; Jaromir Sant
Symbolic Data Analysis: Connecting Concepts and Complex Data
Organiser: Sónia Dias
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Speakers:
Anuradha Roy; Taylor Jiménez; Rui Nunes; Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho
Advances in Bayesian Inference I – Modeling Latent Structures in Complex Data
Organisers: Riccardo Corradin; Francesco Denti
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Speakers:
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli; Andrea Sottosanti; Massimo Ventrucci; Leonardo Genesin
Advances in Bayesian Inference II – Structured Probabilistic Model
Organisers: Riccardo Corradin; Francesco Denti
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Beniamino Hadj-Amar; Federico Castelletti; Louise Alamichel; Yordan Raykov
Statistical Learning of Preferences: Rankings, Partial Orders, Ratings, and Clustering
Organisers: Antonio D’Ambrosio; Valeria Vitelli
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Geoff Nicholls; Luiza Piancastelli; Maurizio Romano; Rosaria Simone
Conceptual and Algorithmic Advances in Clustering
Organiser: Christophe Biernacki
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Reda Khoufache; Tom Devynck; Violaine Courrier; Vincent Vandewalle
Clustering and Classification in Practice
Organisers: Carlos Ferreira; Paula Brito
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Arminda Manuela Gonçalves; Adelaide Freitas; Margarida Cardoso; João Cordeiro
Methodological and Computational Developments in Latent Variable Models
Organiser: Luca Brusa
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Speakers:
Luca Maestrini; Silvia Pandolfi; Daniele Tancini
y-SIS: Model-Based Clustering
Organisers: Martina Amongero; Giulia Capitoli; Alice Giampino; Matteo Gianella; Rocco Mazza
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Giacomo Francisci; Dalila Failli; Marco Dalla Pria; Alex Mozdzen
Classification in Economics and Social Sciences
Organisers: Andrea Marletta; Mariangela Zenga
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Speakers:
Erika Grammatica; Alfonso Piscitelli; Marialuisa Restaino; Hongsheng Dai
Advances in Spectral Clustering
Organiser: Giorgia Zaccaria
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Speakers:
Alessandra Ragni; Cinzia Di Nuzzo; John Thompson
Clustering longitudinal categorical data
Organiser: Raffaella Piccarreta
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Beatrice Franzolini; Giovanni Romano’; Omiros Papaspiliopoulos; Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
Latent variable and clustering models for high-dimensional and complex data
Organiser: Michael Fop
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Speakers:
Caitlin Kral; Felice Lamberti; Alessandro Casa; Koffi Amezouwui
New Frontiers in Categorical Data Modeling
Organiser: Marialuisa Restaino
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Speakers:
Luca Pennella; Marcella Niglio; Domenico Vistocco
VOC invited session: Recent Developments in Tree-based Methods
Organiser: Tom Wilderjans
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Marjolein Fokkema; Susanne Dandl; Diego Iglesias; Elise Dusseldorp
Advances in clustering
Organiser: Agustin Mayo-Iscar
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Speakers:
Mouhamadou Lamine Ndao; Andrea Cerioli; Michael Fop; Francesca Torti