Data Challenge Program @ IEEE ICHI 2026 - AgentDS Healthcare

Human-AI collaboration in healthcare data science.

Overview

The Data Challenge Program at IEEE ICHI 2026 focuses on advancing human-AI collaboration in healthcare data science. This program showcases results from the AgentDS Healthcare benchmark, where participants developed reproducible solutions for realistic healthcare prediction tasks using collaborative human-AI workflows.

The session brings together researchers and practitioners to:

  • Present accepted papers from the Data Challenge track
  • Share insights into human-AI collaboration in real-world healthcare settings
  • Discuss design principles for reliable, reproducible, and high-impact healthcare data science systems

Theme

Human-AI Collaboration in Healthcare Data Science

The program highlights:

  • Realistic healthcare prediction tasks using AgentDS datasets
  • Reproducible pipelines and transparent evaluation
  • Practical insights into human-AI collaboration workflows
  • Lessons for designing next-generation AI-assisted data science systems

Program

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, June 3, 2026

IEEE ICHI 2026, Minneapolis, MN

Paper Presentations (Oral): Accepted Data Challenge papers (TBD)

Final schedule will be updated closer to the conference date.

About AgentDS Healthcare

The program is based on the AgentDS Healthcare benchmark, which provides:

  • Realistic, domain-specific healthcare datasets
  • Multimodal and structured prediction tasks
  • Standardized evaluation protocols

Submission Categories

We invite three types of submissions:

  • Long Papers: 8-10 pages (including references)
  • Short Papers: 4-6 pages (including references)
  • Poster Abstracts: 1 page (including references)

Important Dates (AOE - Anywhere on Earth)

  • Abstract / Paper Submission Deadline: March 2, 2026
  • Notification of Acceptance: March 23, 2026
  • Camera-ready Deadline: April 7, 2026
  • Program (Tentative): June 4, 2026

Submission Instructions

  • All submissions must follow the IEEE Proceedings Format: IEEE templates
  • Submission system: EasyChair
  • Track to select: Data Challenge Track
  • At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present the paper in person at the conference.

Review Process

Single-blind review with 3 reviewers.

Conference Information

For full conference details:

https://zhang-informatics.github.io/ICHI2026/

Program Chairs

  • Jie Ding, PhD, University of Minnesota, USA, dingj@umn.edu
  • An Luo, University of Minnesota, USA, luo00318@umn.edu
  • Yu Huang, PhD, Indiana University, USA, yh60@iu.edu

Program Committee

  • Yunling Ge, University of Minnesota, USA, ge006256@umn.edu
  • Zhenghan Li, University of Minnesota, USA, li004431@umn.edu