Two teams of Hoque-Lab, took part in the black-box optimization competition (http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de/) arranged via the GECCO conference.

Out of 20 different competitors around the world, in the overall category, Team #1 (Sumaiya Iqbal) secured 11th and Team #2 (Pujan Pokhrel and Sumaiya Iqbal, named xd_zecia) secured 12th position.

In the special cases, the teams did their best by securing 6th position (Team #1) in 64-D category and 3rd position (Team #2) in 2-D category: http://bbcomp.ini.rub.de/results/BBComp2016-1OBJ/summary.html.