CfP Advances in Neural and Hybrid Architectures for Education workshop

🌐 Special Session Announcement — IEEE WCCI 2026

We are pleased to share that the Special Session “Advances in Neural and Hybrid Architectures for Education” has been accepted within IEEE WCCI 2026, which will take place in Maastricht from 21 to 26 June 2026.

📌 Motivation & Scope
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks are increasingly shaping the way we understand and support human learning. Modern educational environments produce large amounts of multimodal and dynamic data—from learner interactions to behavioural and cognitive signals—which can be modelled through neural and hybrid approaches to design intelligent, adaptive, and personalised learning systems.
This Special Session aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of neural computation, learning analytics, cognitive modelling, and educational technologies. We welcome contributions on deep learning architectures, neuro-symbolic approaches, hybrid reasoning models, explainability in educational AI, affective computing, personalisation strategies, and ethical aspects in human-centred learning systems.

🧭 Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
• Neural and hybrid architectures for learning analytics and adaptive education
• Deep learning for learner modeling and performance prediction
• Cognitive and affective modeling in educational contexts
• Personalization and recommendation in intelligent tutoring
• Neuro-symbolic and hybrid reasoning for educational data
• Explainability, fairness, and trust in educational AI
• Multimodal and temporal learning data
• Human-centered design and evaluation of educational AI
• Knowledge graphs and AI for personalization, analytics, and ethics

👥 Organizers
- Hasan Abu-Rasheed (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Gabriella Casalino (Università degli Studi di Bari )
- Daniele Di Mitri (German University of Digital Science)
- Daniele Schicchi (CNR ITD - Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche)
- Davide Taibi (CNR ITD - Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche)

📅 Paper Submission Deadline
January 31, 2026 (23:59 AoE, UTC-12) — no extension will be given

📄 Full paper: 6 pages, IEEE conference format

🔗 More information: https://lnkd.in/dzuapfYe