The 62 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: Neural network (NN) theory, NN-based control systems, neuro-system integration and engineering applications; Deep learning-driven pattern recognition, computer vision and its industrial applications. Part II: Natural language processing, knowledge graphs, recommender systems, and their applications; Neural computing-based fault diagnosis and forecasting, prognostic management, and cyber-physical system security; Sequence learning for spreading dynamics, forecasting, and intelligent techniques against epidemic spreading; Multimodal deep learning for representation, fusion and applications; Workshop session: International Conference on Cognitive Intelligence (ICCI).