D2I Competition @ ISIT 2026: The Still Mirror

The 4th edition of the IEEE ITSoc Data-to-Information (D2I) competition, with final presentations at IEEE ISIT 2026 in Guangzhou.

About the Competition

The Student and Outreach Committee of the IEEE Information Theory Society is delighted to announce the 4th edition of the Data-to-Information (D2I) competition. Following Zhuangzi's advice, we ask whether modern wireless systems might benefit from making the channel sufficiently calm before attempting transmission.

The competition sits at the intersection of information theory and machine learning, challenging participants to extract as much mutual information as possible from a realistic Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) dataset — and to design robust algorithms that work in practice. Over a one-month remote phase, teams tackle four tasks ranging from channel exploration to phase/beamforming optimization and secret-key generation. Selected teams present their approaches at the hybrid final session held as part of IEEE ISIT 2026 in Guangzhou.

Organizers

The competition is organized by the Student and Outreach Committee and the Guangzhou Section Chapter of IEEE Information Theory Society. For general inquiries, please contact the technical leads:

• Alejandro Lancho — Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · [email protected]
• Khac-Hoang Ngo — Linköping University · [email protected]
• Stefano Rini — National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · [email protected]

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