Welcome to the Fifth International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research (ICR’26). This conference is organized by the Institute for Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering Research (IICSER). The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers from academia, business, industry, and government to exchange significant and innovative contributions and research ideas and to act as a platform for international research collaboration. To this extent, ICR’26 is seeking submissions that furnish innovative ideas, techniques, methodologies and applications. ICR’26 is currently composed of seven tracks.

• Computer and Network Security
• Computer Science and Computer Engineering Education
• Data Science
• Health Informatics and Biomedical Imaging
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Smart Cities and Smart Energy
• Quantum Computing

All accepted and registered papers will be published in the conference Proceedings and indexed. The Proceedings will be published by Springer book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, and indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP, INSPEC, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series, SCImago, WTI Frankfurt eG, and zbMATH.