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
Abstract registration deadline	June 15, 2025
Submission deadline	June 15, 2025

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.

Submission Guidelines

Conference Paper Submission:

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).

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.

Authers are invited to submit high quality techinical 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
• Stategies 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
• Sports Cardiology
• 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

The ISACE Exhibition is an opportunity to showcase innovation and excellence in sports industry. Companies, institutes, and sports teams are invited to submit a pich 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 Word doc here). 

Submission deadline: 15 June 2025

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

Call for Industry Talks

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. 

Committees

Organizing committee

• 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

Invited Speakers

• To be advised.

Publication

ISACE 2025 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.

Venue

The conference will be held in Shanghai, on China's central coast, which is the country's buggest city and a global financial hub. It is also China's most-populous city. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district's fturistic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sparwling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Dr Zhe Hou <z.hou@griffith.edu.au>.

Sponsors

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

Gold Sponsors:

• Dependable Intelligence