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Call for Papers

ISACE 2025: The 2nd International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition

Shanghai, China, September 26-27, 2025

Conference website:    https://formal-analysis.com/isace/2025/

Submission link:    https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isace25

Submission deadline:    June 15, 2025
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Sports analytics is the application of AI, data science, psychology, and smart devices to improve sports performance, strategy, and decision-making. It involves collecting, processing, and interpreting data from various sources such as video footage, performance metrics, and scouting reports, and using this information to gain insights into player and team performance, prevent injury, and help coaches and team managers to make more informed decisions and optimize their resources to achieve better results.

There are various sports analytics seminars, satellite workshops (associated with major AI and Data Science conferences), and regional conferences (e.g., MIT Sloan Sports Analytics). The vision of this new International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (ISACE) series is to bring leading academics, researchers, coaches, psychologists, managers and technologists together to advance state-of-the-art of sports analytics.

The second ISACE (September 2025) will be in Shanghai, China (one week before The 2025 Rolex Shanghai Masters tennis tournament). The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS series. Top papers will be awarded a Best Paper Certificate and a book voucher from Springer-Nature. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Springer-Nature Computer Science journal.

Paper Submission Guidelines
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Manuscripts may be submitted in Springer LNCS format to one of the following two categories:(i) Regular Papers and (ii) Practical Experience Papers.

+ Regular Papers (15 pages max, excluding references and appendices) should describe original research.
+ Practical Experience Papers (6 pages max, excluding references and appendices) should describe a real-world experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a method or a system in practical settings.

Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details here).

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submission should be done electronically in PDF format through the EasyChair submission page.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isace25

Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all aspects of sports analytics. Topics of interests include, but not limited to:

+ Computer vision
+ Image and video processing
+ Machine learning
+ Probabilistic modeling and reasoning
+ Statistical analysis
+ Predictive modeling
+ Data analytics
+ Strategies analytics
+ Optimization
+ Virtual reality and augmented reality
+ Data visualization and management
+ Sports management
+ E-Sports
+ Sports business analytics
+ Sports Betting
+ Operational research
+ Scheduling and logistics
+ League and tournament design
+ Medical science
+ Precision medicine
+ Injury prediction and prevention
+ Rehabilitation
+ Sports psychology
+ Player evaluation
+ Performance analysis
+ Talent identification and development
+ Fan engagement
+ Paralympic sports analytics

Call for Exhibition
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The ISACE Exhibition is an opportunity to showcase innovation and excellence in sports industry. Companies, institutes, and sports teams are invited to submit a pitch deck (slides) and present their technologies and products to a panel of industry experts, potential customers and investors.

Each selected organization may have up to two presenters, and each presenter must register for the conference. Each pitch is 5 minutes followed by Q&A. Submission format must be PDF or PPTX or KEY.

Your submission should include 1) a pitch deck of slides, and 2) responses to a simple survey (download the survey templage here).

https://formal-analysis.com/isace/2025/company-survey.docx

Submission deadline: 15 June 2025

Please email your submission to z.hou@griffith.edu.au

Call for Industry Talks
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Sports Analytics industry practitioners are welcome to give a 15 min presentation at the conference without formal publication in conference proceedings. Registration is required. Spots are limited. Please email z.hou@griffith.edu.au the title of your talk if you are interested.

Conference Venue
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The conference will be held in Shanghai, located on China’s central coast. It is the country’s largest city and a global financial hub. Shanghai is also China’s most populous city. At its heart lies the Bund, a famous waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era architecture. Across the Huangpu River stands the Pudong district, known for its futuristic skyline, including the 632-meter Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower with its distinctive pink spheres. The sprawling Yu Garden features traditional pavilions, towers, and serene ponds, offering a glimpse into classical Chinese landscaping.

Important Dates (AoE)
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Paper submission: 15 June 2025
Notification: 1 July 2025
Camera-ready: 15 July 2025
Exhibition submission: 15 June 2025
Conference: 26 - 27 September 2025
Journal version submission: 15 January 2026
Journal version notification: 15 March 2026

Organizing committee
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Honorary Chair:
Prof Jin Song Dong, Deputy Head, National University of Singapore, Singapore (Founder of ISACE)
Prof Kun Wnag, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

General Co-Chairs:
A/Prof Yun Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
A/Prof Tao Huang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Prof Geguang Pu, East China Normal University, China

Program Co-Chairs
A/Prof Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Michael Kan Jiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A/Prof Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Advisory Committee
Elia Hill, Director of Sports Technology, Queensland Government, Australia

Organising Committee
A/Prof Bimlesh Wadhwa, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof Jun Sun, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Prof Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof Mounir Mokhtari, Institut Mines-Télécom, France
Prof Yamine Ait Ameur, National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France
A/Prof Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A/Prof Teck Khim Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof Chunyang Chen, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Dr Ruofan Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Registration Chair:
Dr Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia

Demonstration Chair:
A/Prof Wenxi Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhaoyu Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shaobo Cai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Publicity Co-Chair:
A/Prof Kailong Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China
Minghong Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Hongyi Xie, ShanghaiTech University, China

Web Chair:
Dr Mark Huasong Meng, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Program Committee:
A/Prof Bimlesh Wadhwa, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof Chunyang Chen, Technical University of Munich, Germany
A/Prof David Saxby, Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering, Griffith University, Australia
Dr Elizabeth Bradshaw, Deakin University, Australia
Dr Hadrien Bride, Dependable Intelligence, France
Prof Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A/Prof John Komar, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Kan Jiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Prof Lijun Guo, Ningbo University, China
Dr Luke Wildman, RGB Assurance, Australia
Dr Masoumeh Izadi, Television Content Analytics Pte. Ltd, Singapore
Prof Oliver Schulte, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dr Sebastian Binnewies, Griffith University, Australia
Prof Seungbok Lee, Yonsei University, South Korea
A/Prof Teck Khim Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Wei-Yao Wang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Prof Yamine AIT AMEUR, IRIT - National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France
A/Prof Yun Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhaoyu Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
A/Prof Zhiyong Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
A/Prof Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Prof Mehul Raval, Ahmedabad University, India
A/Prof Srikrishnan Divakaran, Krea University, India
Prof Tolga Kaya, Sacred Heart University, USA
Daniel Bolarinwa, Accenture, UK
Rajdeep Singh Hundal, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Dileepa Fernando, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Isuru Supasan, SLTC Research University, Sri Lanka
Karan Gupta, SunPower, USA
Prof Raveendran Paramesran, Monash University, Malaysia
Prof Bessam Abdulrazak, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Steven Lin, Azra Games, USA
Dr Tao Lin, Ethiqly, USA
A/Prof Robert Moskovitch, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Prof David Clausi, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ruchir Pandya, ex-Disruptive, ex-Meta, ex-NBA, USA
Siqi Hao, Huawei, Finland
A/Prof Willie Harrison, Brigham Young University, USA
Matthew Caron, VfL Wolfsburg, Germany
A/Prof Leili Javadpour, University of the Pacific, USA
A/Prof Jacomine Grobler, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Charles Danoff, Mr. Danoff’s Teaching Laboratory, USA
Klaus Mueller, Wictory.ai, Austria
Markus Unterweger, Wictory.ai, Austria
Dr Chean Khim Toa, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia
Prof Divya Mehta, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Dr Haresh Suppiah, La Trobe University Australia
Dr Xian Song, Zhejiang University, China
A/Prof Yu Xin, Ningbo University, China
Prof Ruchika Malhotra, Delhi Technological University, India
Shaobo Cai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Roland Janos Nemes, Hosei University, Japan

Contact
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All questions about conference should be emailed to Dr Zhe Hou (z.hou@griffith.edu.au).

Sponsors
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We are actively seeking sponsors. Please see our detailed sponsorship package here.

https://formal-analysis.com/isace/2025/ISACE2025_Sponsorship_Packages.pdf