AIST-2026 is a scientific conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks, and Texts. The conference is intended for researchers and practitioners interested in data science, focusing on innovative applications of data analysis and machine learning techniques to image processing, analysis of network data, text processing, and other domains, such as economics and geographic information systems.

The conference will take place on October 16-18, 2026, at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.

AIST-2026 has no registration fee, and accepted papers are published free of charge in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates

• Abstract deadline: July 1, 2026
• Submission deadline: July 10, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2026
• Camera-ready papers due: August 18, 2026
• Conference dates: October 16-18, 2026

All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12h, anywhere on Earth.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper category is welcome.

Full papers describing completed research up to 15 pages of content with references.

The papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style. The use of the LaTeX template is encouraged.

Papers should be submitted through the OpenReview conference management system. Submitted papers should be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to assess the merits of the paper on the basis of technical quality, relevance to the conference topics, originality, significance, and clarity of presentation.

The Program Committee expects that authors are ready to submit high-quality research papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the study.

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three Program Committee members. To ensure a fair assessment of the submissions, the review process will be double-blind, so authors need to anonymize their papers by removing links to personal pages, acknowledgments, affiliations, and other identifying information. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected. ArXiv preprints are allowed.

List of Topics

• Analysis of images and video
• Analytics for geoinformation systems
• Computational linguistics
• Core data mining and machine learning techniques
• Discovering and analyzing processes using event data
• Deep learning applications
• Educational data mining
• Game analytics
• Machine learning and data mining for economics and social sciences
• Natural language processing and applications
• Optimization problems in complex networks
• Recommender systems and collaborative technologies
• Semantic web and ontologies
• Social network analysis

Program Committee

Please refer to https://aistconf.org/committees/program for the past year PC members.

Chairs

• Natalia Loukachevitch, Research Computing Center of Moscow State University
• Elena Tutubalina, Kazan Federal University & AIRI
• Andrey Savchenko, HSE University
• Evgenii Tsymbalov, Independent Researcher
• Dmitry Gubanov, IPU, Institute of Control Sciences, RAS
• Maxim Panov, MBZUAI
• Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo
• Rustem Takhanov, Nazarbayev University
• Mikhail Khachai, Krasovsky Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, RAS

Organizing Committee

• Rustem Takhanov, Nazarbayev University
• Irina Nikishina, Independent Researcher
• Dmitry Ignatov, Higher School of Economics
• Evgenii Tsymbalov, Independent Researcher
• Maxim Panov, MBZUAI
• Alexander Panchenko, Skoltech & AIRI
• Elisei Rykov, Skoltech
• Olga Popova, AIRI

Publication

AIST-2026 proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The companion volume will be published in the satellite series CCIS, Communications in Computer and Information Science.

Venue

The conference will be held offline at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to org@aistconf.org.

Questions can also be asked in the conference Telegram group:
https://t.me/aistconference

All details are available on the conference website:
https://aistconf.org