We share with you the knowledge and joy that AI-BOSS research group member Dr. Ertuğrul Ayyıldız was deemed worthy of the Yildiz Technical University 2022 PhD Thesis Award with his thesis titled "Time Dependent Heterogeneous Fleet Multi-Product Partial Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Solution Approach"; we sincerely hope that he will always be successful in his academic life and that his work will always be rewarded. We would like to express our gratitude and respect to Yildiz Technical University, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Graduate School of Science and Engineering and our Rector Prof.Dr. Tamer Yılmaz for all their support in this process.