Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, declared under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, is a leading multidisciplinary university in India offering a wide range of professional programmes in Engineering, Sciences, Medicine, Dental Sciences, Nursing, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology, Management, Law, Hotel Management, Agriculture, and allied disciplines. The university fosters a vibrant environment for teaching–learning, research and development, innovation, and socially inclusive extension activities across undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes. SOA is NAAC A++ accredited (Cycle-3, valid till 2029) and holds Category-I Graded Autonomy status from UGC, with 13 programmes accredited by NBA, ABET accreditation for three engineering programmes, ICAR accreditation for agricultural programmes, and NABH accredited SUM Hospital and NABL accredited Diagnostics Laboratory. In the NIRF India Rankings 2025, SOA is ranked 15th in the University category, 22nd in Engineering, 15th in Medical, 9th in Dental, 10th in Law, 49th in Research, 66th in Management. SOA among only four Universities in India listed in THE World Reputation Rankings 2025. The list also includes Indian Institute of Science-Bengaluru, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and Indian Institute of Technology-Madras.
METASOFT-2026 will provide a forum that will bring together researchers, academia, and practitioners from industry to meet and exchange their ideas and recent research achievements in all aspects of Meta-Heuristic Search Techniques and Applications in Engineering together with their applications in the contemporary world.
