The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Engineering (MLISE 2026) was successfully held from May 28 to 31, 2026, at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy.

The four‑day conference brought together scholars from China, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Slovakia, Ghana, and other countries, engaging in in‑depth exchanges on cutting‑edge topics such as machine learning, intelligent systems, edge intelligence, federated learning, and medical artificial intelligence.

Keynote Speeches (Main Session)

• Prof. Kenli Li (Hunan University, China)

• Prof. Francesco Flammini (University of Florence, Italy)

• Assoc. Prof. Sadi Alawadi (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden)

• Assoc. Prof. Rehmat Ullah (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)

Conference Format and Highlights

Two rounds of parallel sessions (ROOM A, B, C) featuring nearly 40 oral presentations covering federated learning anomaly detection, medical image analysis, edge AI hardware acceleration, graph neural networks, privacy preservation, intelligent system reliability, and more.

Each presentation was followed by 1–2 Q&A sessions, creating a vibrant academic atmosphere.

Special activities

Academic networking breakfast, tour of the MODAL research laboratory, young researchers & collaboration roundtable, and a walking tour of the historic centre of Naples.

The social dinner was held at the landmark Complesso Monumentale di Santa Maria Regina Coeli, where the Best Paper Award and Best Oral Presentation Award were presented.

The conference featured a compact yet diverse agenda, fully reflecting international cutting‑edge developments and industry‑academia‑research integration in the field of machine learning and intelligent systems engineering.