Announcements

Following from our two previous successful editions, we invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers, taking place from 2 to 7 August 2026 in Jeju, South Korea.

Organized by MDPI and the open access journals Sensors, Micromachines, AI Sensors, Micro and Remote Sensing, this in-person conference will once again bring together experts and participating researchers who will share insights and innovations in sensors, sensing technology, transducers and artificial intelligence.

Start preparing your abstracts:
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work to peers and leading experts in AI-enhanced sensing systems and transducers. We will be announcing the session topics at AIS 2026 soon.

Find out more about the instructions for authors: https://sciforum.net/event/AIS2026?section=#instructions.

Find out more about the publication opportunities available for authors: https://sciforum.net/event/AIS2026?section=#Publicationopportunities.
Please feel free to share the information about this conference to your colleagues and students.

We look forward to welcoming you in Jeju!

The organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers (AIS 2026).

International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), led by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and observed annually on 23 June, is a global initiative that celebrates the outstanding achievements of women in engineering while inspiring more young women to pursue engineering careers. Under the 2026 theme “Engineering Intelligence”, INWED celebrates its 13th anniversary, highlighting the expertise, creativity, and leadership that women bring to the engineering profession.

Echoing this mission, MDPI’s established engineering journals serve as platforms for scientific communication. Through webinars, award, Special Issues, and research articles, MDPI aims to celebrate the achievements of women engineers, inspire future generations, and help shape a more inclusive future for engineering worldwide.

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd edition of the Young Women in Engineering Award is now open for nominations. This award was established to recognize the achievements of young women researchers in the field of engineering and to inspire more young women to pursue research and careers in engineering.

Nomination deadline: 30 November 2026.

Prize:

• CHF 1000;
• An electronic certificate;
• A voucher to waive the article processing charges (APCs) for one submission to a journal within the field of engineering (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

Number of winners: 4.

For more details about the award, please visit here. Please feel free to send the nomination letter to ywe-award@mdpi.com.

We are honored to interview several outstanding female scholars in engineering field to share their research journey and your insight into being a female engineer.

	Name: Dr. Miriam Filippi Affiliation: Soft Robotics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Winner of the inaugural Young Women in Engineering Award “The most transformative research often comes from integrating perspectives across fields and pushing beyond conventional boundaries.”   Please read the full interview here.
	Name: Prof. Dr. Yang Gao Affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China “I tell my students: use AI and automation aggressively but never outsource your reasoning or your conscience.”   Please read the full interview here.
	Name: Dr. Maria Graça Rasteiro Affiliation: CERES, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal “It is important to always analyse the potential negative consequences of relying on AI for engineering decisions.”   Please read the full interview here.

“Design and Analysis of a Compact Self-Tuning High-Voltage Controller for MFC”
by Qiong Zhu, Qiang Zhang, Hongli Ji and Jinhao Qiu
Actuators 2026, 15(3), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/act15030169

“Nervous System-on-Chip: Innovative Microfluidic Platform to Compartmentalize hiPSC-Derived Neural Networks”
by Rahman Sabahi-Kaviani, Antigoni Gogolou, Celine Souilhol, Mark van der Kroeg, Steven A. Kushner, Femke M. S. de Vrij, Anestis Tsakiridis and Regina Luttge
Micromachines 2026, 17(2), 199; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi17020199

“Maximizing Efficiency in a Retrofitted Battery-Powered Material Handler by Novel Control Strategies”
by Marco Ferrari, Daniele Beltrami, Vinay Partap Singh, Tatiana Minav and Stefano Uberti
Actuators 2025, 14(11), 553; https://doi.org/10.3390/act14110553

“An Internet of Things Approach to Vision-Based Livestock Monitoring: PTZ Cameras for Dairy Cow Identification”
by Niken Prasasti Martono, Ryota Tsukamoto and Hayato Ohwada
Telecom 2025, 6(4), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/telecom6040082

“Mechanisms and Control Strategies for Morphing Structures in Quadrotors: A Review and Future Prospects”
by Osman Acar, Eija Honkavaara, Ruxandra Mihaela Botez and Deniz Çınar Bayburt
Drones 2025, 9(9), 663; https://doi.org/10.3390/drones9090663

“Optimizing Local Explainability in Robotic Grasp Failure Prediction”
by Cagla Acun, Ali Ashary, Dan O. Popa and Olfa Nasraoui
Electronics 2025, 14(12), 2363; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14122363

“AI-Enabled IoT for Food Computing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions”
by Zohra Dakhia, Mariateresa Russo and Massimo Merenda
Sensors 2025, 25(7), 2147; https://doi.org/10.3390/s25072147

“A Review of Time-Series Forecasting Algorithms for Industrial Manufacturing Systems”
by Syeda Sitara Wishal Fatima and Afshin Rahimi
Machines 2024, 12(6), 380; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines12060380

Special Issues:

“Medical Imaging: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, and Machine Learning Techniques (2nd Edition)” Guest Editor: Dr. Ines Domingues Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026	“AI-Driven Intelligent Maintenance and Health Management for Complex Industrial Systems” Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Dandan Peng, Dr. Xiaoxi Hu, Dr. Jipu Li and Prof. Dr. Chuanjiang Li Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026
“Vehicle Systems and Road Infrastructure Integration for Smarter Transportation Systems” Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Anna Granà, Prof. Dr. Elżbieta Macioszek and Dr. Maria Luisa Tumminello Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026	“Intelligent Automation: Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Automation” Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. João Miguel da Costa Sousa and Dr. Susana Vieira Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2026
“Large Language Models for Intelligent Urban Digital Twins: Spatiotemporal Reasoning, Knowledge Graphs, and Simulation” Guest Editors: Dr. Xi Kuai, Prof. Dr. Biao He, Dr. Minmin Li and Dr. Haojia Lin Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027	“Actuators and Robotic Devices for Rehabilitation and Assistance—2nd Edition” Guest Editors: Dr. Monica Tiboni, Dr. Monica Malvezzi and Dr. Maria Cristina Valigi Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027

“A Machine Learning Framework for Crop Productivity Classification and Risk Assessment”
by João Pedro de Moraes Xavier, Kelyn Schenatto, Glauco Vieira Miranda, Claudio Leones Bazzi, Ricardo Sobjak and Marlon Rodrigues
AgriEngineering 2026, 8(6), 203; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering8060203

“Mechanical Modeling of Grape Destemming in a Horizontal Centrifugal Destemmer”
by Piernicola Masella, Agnese Spadi, Ferdinando Corti, Alessandro Parenti and Giulia Angeloni
AgriEngineering 2026, 8(3), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering8030094

“An Automated Modular Platform for Vascular Graft Assessment via Coronary-like Flow-Induced Stimulation”
by Elia Pederzani, Lucrezia Moro, Alessia Sofia Bolandrina, Sara Rega, Gianluca Lorenzo Perrucci, Gianfranco Beniamino Fiore and Monica Soncini
Bioengineering 2026, 13(2), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering13020221

“Biomechanical Monitoring of Exercise Fatigue Using Wearable Devices: A Review”
by Yang Chen, Siqi Li, Jian Kuang, Xu Zhang, Zhijie Zhou, En-Jing Li, Xiaoli Chen and Xianmei Meng
Bioengineering 2026, 13(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering13010013

“Applying Machine Learning Algorithms to Classify Digitized Special Nuclear Material Obtained from Scintillation Detectors”
by Sai Kiran Kokkiligadda, Cathleen Barker, Emily Gunger, Jalen Johnson, Brice Turner and Andreas Enqvist
J. Nucl. Eng. 2025, 6(3), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/jne6030031

“Reliability Analysis of Interface Oxidation for Thermal Barrier Coating Based on Proxy Model”
by Juan Ma, Anyi Wang, Philipp Junker, Anas W. Alshawawreh, Qingya Li, Haoqi Xu and Runzhuo Xue
Modelling 2025, 6(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/modelling6030061

“Classification of Metallic Powder Morphology Using Traditional and Automated Static Image Analysis: A Comparative Study”
by Cindy Charbonneau, Fabrice Bernier, Étienne Perrault, Roger Pelletier and Louis-Philippe Lefebvre
Powders 2025, 4(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/powders4020015

“Advancing Brain Tumor Analysis: Current Trends, Key Challenges, and Perspectives in Deep Learning-Based Brain MRI Tumor Diagnosis”
By Namya Musthafa, Qurban A. Memon and Mohammad M. Masud
Eng 2025, 6(5), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/eng6050082

Special Issues:

MDPI will attend IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications as an exhibitor. This event will be held in Singapore, from 1 to 4 September 2026.

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) brings together leading researchers and professionals in the cellular, PCS, wireless LAN and mobile data industries to discuss key topics, such as AI and machine learning in communications, channel modeling, cooperative communications, integrated sensing, millimeter wave and terahertz communications, multi-user communications, optical wireless communications, physical layer security and quantum communications.

The following open access journals will be represented:

• Future Internet;
• AI;
• Information;
• Computers;
• Entropy;
• Electronics;
• IoT;
• JCP;
• MAKE;
• MCA;
• Network;
• Sensors;
• Telecom.

If you are attending this event, please feel free to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at our booth and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://pimrc2026.ieee-pimrc.org/.

MDPI is pleased to announce our participation in the 12th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM 2026), held from 7 to 10 July in Toulouse, France.

The EWSHM is the main European event dedicated to structural health monitoring (SHM), a key technology for infrastructure maintenance and integrity monitoring. This unmissable event attracts world-renowned experts from the academic and industrial sectors, as well as from research laboratories around the world, to discuss innovations and applications in this constantly evolving field.

The workshop covers a wide spectrum of key areas in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), including damage detectability under environmental and operational variability, fiber-optic sensing solutions, digital–physical convergence, and smart damage detection across distinct structural systems. Attendees will also have the opportunity to explore advanced industrial applications, next-generation maintenance strategies, and transformative case studies—such as connected infrastructure and aerospace management—that are shaping the future of asset integrity.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors;
• Applied Mechanics;
• Applied Sciences;
• Acoustics;
• Vibration;
• NDT;
• Aerospace;
• Infrastructures;
• Construction Materials;
• Buildings;
• JETA;
• CivilEng;
• Automation;
• AI Sensors.

If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and have a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the event, please visit the following link: https://ewshm2026.com/.

We are pleased to share that Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220) has received an updated CiteScore of 9.4 in June 2026. CiteScore ranks the journal 19 out of 206 titles (Q1) in the “Instrumentation” category, an impressive achievement for a journal in its 26^th volume.

You can find more statistics on our website.

Current CiteScores measure the average number of citations within a journal in a four-year window (2022–2025). The Scopus database provides a comprehensive suite of metrics that support informed publishing strategies and research evaluation and enable the benchmarking of journal performance.

This achievement reflects the collective efforts of our authors, reviewers, and editors. Together, we will continue to track the progress of Sensors and its growing impact in the field of sensors.

Conference: The 41st ICROS Annual Conference
Date: 1–3 July 2026
Location: EXCO, Daegu, Republic of Korea

MDPI will be participating in the 41st ICROS Annual Conference, which will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 in Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Hosted by the Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems (ICROS), the Korean representative body of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), will be held under the theme “Control, Robots, and Systems Leading the AI 2.0 Era”. This event offers attendees a premier platform for sharing future technologies across various engineering fields, including electrical, electronic, mechanical, aerospace, and chemical engineering.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Inventions;
• Symmetry;
• AI;
• Applied Sciences;
• Automation;
• Electronics;
• Mathematics;
• MTI;
• Processes;
• Robotics;
• Vehicles;
• Actuators;
• Algorithms;
• Logistics;
• Sensors.

We warmly invite you to visit our booth to share your valued research experience. We look forward to meeting you in person and assisting with any questions that you may have. For more information regarding this conference, please visit the official website.

We are pleased to announce the winner of the Sensors 2025 Young Investigator Award, established to acknowledge the achievements of young investigators in all aspects of energy research. After a rigorous evaluation process, one winner has been selected.

Please join us in congratulating the following winner:

• Wenbo Ding, Tsinghua University, China.

Prize:

• CHF 2000;
• An electronic certificate;
• A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charge (APC) for one submission to the journal (subject to peer review)—valid for one year.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all of the nominators for their participation and the Award Committee Members for their careful evaluation of the many outstanding nominees.

We warmly congratulate the award recipient and wish him continued success in his research careers.

Sensors Editorial Office

The 2025 CiteScore metrics have been officially released by Scopus, and the results confirm what has become a consistent pattern for MDPI's journal portfolio: broad recognition across disciplines, steady improvement across the majority of ranked titles, and a growing presence at the top of subject category rankings.

CiteScore, published annually by Elsevier's Scopus database, measures the average citations received by articles published in a journal over a four-year window. As a complement to the Journal Impact Factor, which uses a two-year window based on the Web of Science database, CiteScore provides an alternative, long-term perspective on citation performance.

The 365 MDPI journals in Scopus (as of May 2026) are indexed across a wide range of subject categories, ensuring that open access research remains highly discoverable to a global readership through one of the most widely used platforms in academic publishing.

Data Summary (2025 CiteScores)

• New Additions: 41 MDPI journals received a CiteScore for the first time.
• Trending Upward: 234 of 322 previously ranked journals (73%) saw an increase in their CiteScore compared to last year.
• High Visibility: 314 journals (86%) rank in Q1 or Q2 in at least one subject category.
• Elite Performance: 42 journals rank in the top 10% of their subject categories.

Portfolio Performance

Among the 322 journals that held a CiteScore in 2024, 234 saw an increase this year. Quartile improvements outnumbered declines across the portfolio, with 52 journals moving to a higher quartile and only 20 seeing a decline. Furthermore, no previously ranked journals were removed. The 42 journals now ranked in the top 10% of their subject categories are drawn from a strong foundation of 178 journals holding a Q1 position.

With the large majority of our indexed portfolio ranked in the top half of research fields, researchers can confidently choose MDPI to meet funder mandates for high-quality, fully compliant Open Access publishing.

Exceptional Achievements for Foods and Life

Notably, both Foods and Life achieved a 99th percentile ranking in their respective subject categories for the 2025 CiteScores. This outstanding placement positions them as leading journals in their fields and highlights the high visibility and global impact of the open access research they publish.

Journal Metrics and Beyond

Journal-level metrics describe outlets, not individual articles. An increasing number of funders and institutions—including signatories of DORA and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment—now explicitly encourage evaluation at the article level rather than by the journal in which research appears. MDPI supports this direction: we report CiteScore alongside the Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Indicator, and article-level usage data because no single number captures the full reach and contribution of published research.

Thank You

These results reflect the sustained effort of thousands of editors-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers, and authors across every field MDPI serves. The metrics are the outcome; the work is yours.

Conference: 43rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2026)
Date: 22–26 June 2026
Location: Singapore

The 43rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2026) will be held from 22 to 26 June 2026, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). As the flagship annual event of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), ISARC serves as a premier global platform for researchers, academics, and industry professionals from the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management sectors.

In 2026, ISARC will be held jointly with the 34th Annual Conference on Lean Construction (IGLC34) under the central theme “Constructing the Future: Sustainable, Smart, and Lean”. This joint conference aims to address global challenges by integrating lean principles with cutting-edge automation, robotics, and smart technologies, paving the way for a more sustainable and efficient construction industry.

The following open access journals will be represented:

• Buildings;
• Intelligent Infrastructure and Construction;
• Applied Sciences;
• Drones;
• Automation;
• CivilEng;
• Architecture;
• Sensors;
• Infrastructures;
• Robotics.

If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.iaarc.org/isarc-2026.

The editorial team of Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220) would like to congratulate the winners of the Sensors 2025 Editor of Distinction Award, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Professor Vittorio M. N. Passaro. Following a formal review process by the Award Evaluation Committee, six Editorial Board Members were selected as winners. The recipients are as follows:

Name: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Saggio
Affiliation: Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Tor Vergata Rome, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: wearable sensors; brain–computer interface; motion tracking; gait analysis; sensory glove; biotechnologies

Name: Dr. Antonio Lázaro
Affiliation: Department of Electronic, Electrical, and Automatic Engineering, University Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
Interests: microwave device modeling; on-wafer noise measurements; RF-MEMS; antennas; RFID; UWB radar systems; vital-sign monitoring; wireless sensor networks; microwave systems

Name: Dr. Flavio Esposito
Affiliation: Department of Engineering, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80143 Naples, Italy
Interests: chemical sensors; biosensors; physical sensors; fiber-optic sensors; fiber gratings; long period gratings; fiber Bragg gratings; fabrication of long period gratings (LPG) in specialty optical fibers; investigation of fiber optic sensors under different ionizing radiations; development of fiber optic bio-chemical sensors for industrial and medical applications

Name: Prof. Dr. Anastasios Doulamis
Affiliation: Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Athens, Greece
Interests: image processing; computer vision; robotic systems; deep learning; machine learning; Markovian models; signal processing and pattern analysis

Name: Prof. Dr. Ben Hamza
Affiliation: Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, EV7.631, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
Interests: machine learning; computer vision; image processing; computer graphics; medical imaging

Name: Prof. Dr. Michael E. Hahn
Affiliation: Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, 181 Esslinger Hall, 1525 University St., Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Interests: wearable sensors; machine learning; running biomechanics; injury prevention; mechanical efficiency; metabolic economy; footwear; prosthetics; sport

We warmly congratulate the award recipients and sincerely thank all Editorial Board Members for their continued commitment and valuable contributions to Sensors.