Bio Inspired computing: theories and applications : 17th International Conference BIC TA 2022 Wuhan China December 16 18 2022 revised selected papers This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Bio Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications BIC TA 2022 held in Wuhan China during December 16 18 2022. The 56 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: evolutionary computation and swarm intelligence; machine learning and deep learning; intelligent control and simulation and molecular computing and nanotechnology