We would like to thank all the ISCSO 2022 participants for their contributions to the event. The winner of ISCSO 2022 is Team Pantheon from METU, Turkey and University of Rochester, USA. The optimum solution reported by the winning team is available below. This is the second win for Team Pantheon; congratulations to both members of the team!
Team Pantheon
Hasan Eser
Hasan received his B.Sc. (2011), M.Sc. (2014), and Ph.D. (2021) degrees in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, where he also worked as a teaching and research assistant in Construction Materials and Structural Engineering divisions until 2020. He specializes in performance-based design and optimization of steel structures. He is currently working as a PhD Lecturer at METU.
Soner Seckiner
Soner received B.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering, and Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey, in 2008, 2017, and 2011, respectively. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Rochester, NY, USA. His research interests are in the fields of on-chip regulator design, side-channel attacks, and machine learning.
Optimum Solution Reported by Team Pantheon
The optimum values for the sizing variables reported by Team Pantheon are available in this table. The final optimized structure is also depicted in the following figure. The reported optimum weight is 5976.5057 kg.
Top 5 Submissions
| Rank | Feasible Design (kg) | Participants | Institution | Country | Team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 (Winner) | 5976.5057 | Hasan Eser | Middle East Technical University | Turkey | Pantheon |
| Soner Seckiner | University of Rochester | USA | Pantheon | ||
| 2 | 6152.1721 | Yongpeng He | University of Bath | UK | - |
| 3 | 6156.8834 | Kiarash Biabani Hamedani | Iran University of Science and Technology | Iran | - |
| 4 | 6163.6478 | Nicolas Cortes Garcia | Cinvestav - IPN | Mexico | CinvestavT |
| Oscar Ivan Puga Sanchez | Cinvestav - IPN | Mexico | CinvestavT | ||
| 5 | 6737.9525 | Parsa Ghannadi | Islamic Azad University | Iran | Agent |
| Andy Nguyen | University of Southern Queensland | Australia | Agent | ||
| Seyed Sina Kourehli | Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University | Iran | Agent |