diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 493e318ef..700f7d9da 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "gprof2dot==2021.2.21",
     "matplotlib",
     "numpydoc>=1.0.0",
-    "pyprojroot==0.2.0",
     "pyswarms==1.3.0",
     "h5py>=3.11.0",
     "SQLAlchemy==2.0.32",