At Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Software Engineering, our student Mehmet KATI, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hamdi Tolga KAHRAMAN, has developed a thesis titled "Development of a New Method for Convergence Equation Design in Metaheuristic Search Algorithms". This thesis has been awarded the 2024 Master’s Thesis Award by the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences at Karadeniz Technical University, with a total of 8 SCI-indexed publications (4 Q1, 3 Q2, and 1 Q3) and more than 500 WoS citations. We congratulate our professor and student and wish them continued success.