GI-AI-SC 2026

The Institute of AI, MITWPU, Pune, India is organizing the '2nd Global Interdisciplinary AI Student Competition 2026' (GI-AI-SC 2026) with the theme of 'Mechanical Tools Design using Snail Homing and Mating Search (SHMS) Algorithm'. 

Problem Statement 

Mode of Competition: Online

Eligible Participants: Students Worldwide team of (maximum 4) with one faculty member. 

Registration: Free

Registration Deadline: March 23, 2026

Competition will be a Month long: March 25-April 25, 2026.

The problems announcement: March 25, 2026.

Submission of program code, solutions, etc.: April 25, 2026 

Evaluation and results announcement: April 30, 2026

Winner Prize: TBD

Solution Submission Procedure

The participants must provide the detailed code and problem formulation with solution in separate files.

File 1: Complete code (single .pdf)

• Create sections in the code and use comments to explain the section

• The output in the code must be well-framed

• Proper units must be mentioned in the output wherever necessary

• The plots must be labelled completely

File 2: Problem formulation with solution

Following points must be provided (single .pdf).

• Problem definition as an optimization problem 

• All the assumptions made while defining the problem

• Variable definitions along with the bounds

• Well defined Objective Function

• Define the Constraints (if necessary)

• The optimization algorithm used

• Modifications required in the algorithm to make it suitable for the given problem

• Flowchart for the methodology

• Convergence plots

• Any other plots deemed necessary

• Programming language used

• Code Runtime

• Signify the importance of the output