2026 IEEE BIBM Workshop
Smart Medicine and Privacy Protection
The 2nd SMPP Workshop: challenges and frontiers in biomedical and health informatics
at the intersection of AI, connected healthcare systems, and privacy-enhancing technologies.
AI for Healthcare
Privacy Protection
Biomedical Informatics
Secure Data Sharing
Introduction
Why this workshop matters
Building on the first edition
The 1st SMPP Workshop in 2025 received encouraging submissions and demonstrated
strong community interest in smart medicine and privacy protection. Building on that
foundation, the 2nd SMPP Workshop at IEEE BIBM 2026 will further expand this forum
for interdisciplinary exchange.
Workshop focus
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners working on smart medicine,
biomedical informatics, and privacy-preserving technologies for healthcare and life
science applications, including trustworthy data management and responsible deployment
in real healthcare settings.
Call for Papers
Highlighted topics of interest
We welcome original work on privacy, security, and trustworthy intelligence for biomedical
and healthcare data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas.
Multimodal data intelligence and privacy challenges
- Wearables, medical imaging, EHRs, remote monitoring, and sensitive multimodal data streams
- NLP-based clinical information retrieval, entity protection, and controllable context generation
- Privacy alignment and leakage prevention across images, text, signals, logs, and omics data
Privacy protection in health information systems
- Fine-grained encryption and access control for EHRs, ICU monitoring data, and clinical records
- Anonymization and de-identification for structured and unstructured health data
- Deployment of differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and related technologies in hospital systems
Privacy-preserving AI and machine learning
- Privacy-performance tradeoffs, privacy-aware neural networks, model encryption, and pruning
- Federated learning for multi-institutional healthcare collaboration and data isolation
- Secure inference and privacy-preserving knowledge distillation for sensitive medical environments
Genomic data privacy and governance
- Genomic data integration risks across databases, single-cell sequencing, and clinical phenotype linkage
- De-identification, revocable consent, personalized access control, and compliance auditing
- Ethical governance, interoperability, secure exchange protocols, consent negotiation, and verifiable access logging
Due date for workshop papers submissionSept. 27, 2026
Notification of paper acceptance to authorsOct. 18, 2026
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papersNov. 8, 2026
Actual workshop datesDec. 1, 2026
Fully online workshop
The workshop will be conducted through a virtual meeting platform to support paper
presentations, keynote talks, and interactive discussions. Detailed logistical arrangements
will be announced to authors upon paper acceptance.
People
Organizing committee
Program Chairs
Prof. Songfeng Lu
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, expert in bioinformatics and data privacy
Dr. Zhi Lu
NUS School of Computing, National University of Singapore, expert in privacy computing and genomic data security
Dr. Renfei Shen
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, expert in medical data sharing and ethical governance
Invited Keynote Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Hewang Nie
Expert in medical model watermarking and copyright protection