The 2nd International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (ISACE)


26-27 September 2025, Shanghai
(Few days before the 2025 Rolex Shanghai Masters tennis tournament)

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Welcome to the International Sports Analytics Conference and Exhibition (ISACE) series, 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.



The location of ISACE series is to move around the world's major cities with a timing that is likely to be 1-2 weeks before or after a major sporting event which may form one of the themes of the conference.


Previous and future events:


The pre-conference workshop was hosted in Oct 2023, Singapore.

Singapore F1 2023


The first ISACE (July 2024) was held in Paris one week before The 2024 Summer Olympics.

Pairs Summer Olympic 2024


The third ISACE (May 2026) will be in Vancouver (before the 2026 Soccer World Cup). Details will be updated later.

Vancouver WC

Download the PDF poster.

Important Dates (AoE)

Paper submission: 15 June 2025

Notification: 1 July 2025

Camera-ready: 15 July 2025

Exhibition (demo track) submission: 15 Augest 2025

Graduate Student Symposium submission: 15 Augest 2025

Conference: 26 - 27 September 2025

Journal version submission: 15 January 2026

Journal version notification: 15 March 2026

Program

Download the program here.


Keynote Speakers

Professor Vishal Misra

Bio: Vishal Misra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University and Associate Dean of the School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence. He serves as Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation (ACM SIGMETRICS), and is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM. His main research interests include modeling and analysis of complex systems, networks and distributed systems, Internet economic models and their impact on public policies such as net neutrality, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as wireless embedded and sensing systems.


Professor Yu Liu

Bio: Yu Liu is a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Shanghai University of Sport, Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education's Changjiang Scholars Program, expert in the Ministry of Science and Technology's 14th Five-Year Plan for Sports Science and Technology Innovation, and member of the General Administration of Sport of China's Expert Group on Science and Technology for the Olympics. He also serves as President of the Asian Association of Coaching Science (AACS), Executive Council Member of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), and Vice Chair of the Sports Artificial Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, among other roles. He has led multiple major projects, including the "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" Key Special Project of the National Key R&D Program and Key Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and has published over 200 academic papers. He has received numerous awards, including the First Prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award and the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award.


Professor Yue Gao

Foot-Type Robot Technology and Development for Ice and Snow Sports

Bio: Yue Gao is a tenured Associate Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, USA. His main research interests include embodied intelligence for legged robots and reinforcement learning. He has published more than 50 papers in leading international journals and conferences, and serves as Principal Investigator of projects under the National Key R&D Program of China, Major Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), as well as General and Young Investigator Programs of NSFC. He is an Associate Editor of journals such as Robotica. He has received awards including the "Outstanding AI Leader" Award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) and the First Prize in the National University Faculty Teaching Innovation Competition.


Professor Divya Mehta

Longitudinal biopsychosocial markers of health and performance in Australian elite athletes

Abstract: Australian elite athletes experience high levels of psychological distress and mental health issues compared to the population (Rice SM et al, Sports Med, 2019). At university, student elite athletes experience many stressors, including adverse life events, academic stressors and sports-specific factors of poor performance, injury and competitions that can cause psychological distress, impacting health and performance. This project uses cutting-edge methods to uncover the biological effects of psychological and physical stressors in 32 student elite athletes. By identifying key genes associated with mental and physical health, this project builds statistical models using innovative AI methods to detect and predict mental health outcomes such as burnout and injury in athletes before symptoms manifest.

Bio: Divya Mehta is a Chief Researcher at Queensland University of Technology, geneticist and biostatistician. His main research interests lie at the intersection of psychiatry, statistics, and molecular genetics. He has received awards including the 2016 CINP Rafaelson Young Investigator Award, the 2016 Queensland University of Technology Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship, the 2014 European Psychiatric Association Research Prize, and the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) Rafaelson Young Investigator Award. He has published more than 75 high-impact papers in leading international journals including Science, Nature, and PNAS.

Registration

Options Early Bird (before 1 September 2025)
Standard
Individual Student 1600 RMB 2000 RMB
Regular 2200 RMB 2600 RMB
Group
(>5 pax)
Student 1200 RMB 1600 RMB
Regular 1800 RMB 2200 RMB

Registration includes lunch (x2 days) and Conference Banquet.


Host city

Shanghai, on China's central coast, is the country's biggest 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 futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.


Boat on Calm Water

Venue

ISACE 2025 will be hosted at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Xuhui Campus).
Address: 1954 Huashan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China.


Transportation

International guests can arrive in Shanghai via Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) or Pudong International Airport (PVG). Public transportation in Shanghai is known for being cheap and convenient. More details about the transportation will be made available once the venue has been confirmed.


Recommended Hotels

1. Crowne Plaza Shanghai. Address: 400 Panyu Road, Changning District (500m walk from Exit 5, Jiao Tong University Metro Station)

2. Hengshan Garden Hotel Shanghai. Address: 516 Hengshan Road, Xuhui District (480m walk from Exit 1, Hengshan Road Metro Station)

3. Tianping Hotel Shanghai. Address: 185 Tianping Road, Xuhui District (200m walk from Exit 15, Xujiahui Metro Station)

4. The Suites Shanghai. Address: 1 West Huaihai Road, Xuhui District (Next to Exit 3, Jiao Tong University Metro Station)

5. Mia Hotel (Shanghai Xuhui Jiao Tong University). Address: 955 Panyu Road, Xuhui District

6. Ibis Shanghai Xujiahui. Address: 858 Panyu Road, Xuhui District

Scope and Topics

Authors are invited to submit high quality technical papers describing original and unpublished work in all aspects of sports analytics. Topics of interest include, but are 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
  • 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 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.

Call for Exhibition (Demo Track)

The ISACE Exhibition (Demo Track) 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 Augest 2025

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

Selected companies can pay a discounted registration fee equivalent to the student fees.

Graduate Student Symposium

We cordially invite Matser and PhD students to submit their research work to the ISACE 2025 Graduate Student Symposium. This is an excellent opportunity to present your research and receive feedback from experienced researchers.

Paper Submissions


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.


Submit Conference Paper


Camera-ready Submission

Authors of accepted papers should submit three files on EasyChair by updating your submission:

  • The final source files, including bib files, images, etc., all in a zipped file.
  • A final paper PDF file corresponding exactly to the final source files.
  • A licence-to-publish agreement, signed by hand by the corresponding author on behalf of all of the authors of the paper, converted to a PDF file. Download the Word template here.

Please upload the above files by the camera-ready deadline 15 July 2025.


Journal Paper Submission

ISACE has established a strategic partnership with the Springer-Nature (SN) Computer Science journal. Selected papers from the conference proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of SN Computer Science. The extension is expected to contain more than 30% new content, such as new knowledge, theoretical and practical development and evaluations of the approach.

Detailed submission instructions will be released later.

Organising 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
Prof Xiang Fan, Shanghai Jiao Tong 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

Organizer

Shanghai Jiao Tong University


Sponsors

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

Gold Sponsors

Dependable Intelligence


Collaborators

National University of Singapore

Griffith University

Spring LNCS