| 2026 | EUROGP | Node Preservation and Its Effect on Crossover in Cartesian Genetic Programming. | Mark Kocherovsky, Illya Bakurov, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2026 | EUROGP | New Perspectives on Cartesian Genetic Programming: A Survey. | Mark Kocherovsky, Henning Cui, Illya Bakurov, Michael Heider, Roman Kalkreuth, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2026 | EUROGP | Revisiting SLIM: Improved Learning Dynamics and Model Compactness in Symbolic Regression. | Gorka Silva, Lachlan Stewart, Illya Bakurov, Mauro Castelli, Davide Farinati, Jose Manuel Muoz Contreras, Leonardo Trujillio, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2025 | EUROGP | On the Effectiveness of Crossover Operators in Cartesian Genetic Programming. | Mark Kocherovsky, Marzieh Kianinejad, Illya Bakurov, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2025 | GECCO | A comparison of tournament and lexicase selection paradigms in regression problems: error-based fitness versus correlation fitness. | Illya Bakurov, Aidan Murphy, Charles Ofria, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2024 | CEC | Full Inclusive Genetic Programming. | Francesco Marchetti, Mauro Castelli, Illya Bakurov, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2024 | GECCO | On the Nature of the Phenotype in Tree Genetic Programming. | Wolfgang Banzhaf, Illya Bakurov |
| 2022 | GECCO | Genetic programming for structural similarity design at multiple spatial scales. | Illya Bakurov, Marco Buzzelli, Mauro Castelli, Raimondo Schettini, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2019 | EUROGP | A Vectorial Approach to Genetic Programming. | Irene Azzali, Leonardo Vanneschi, Sara Silva, Illya Bakurov, Mario Giacobini |
| 2019 | IJCCI | A Regression-like Classification System for Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming. | Illya Bakurov, Mauro Castelli, Francesco Fontanella, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2018 | GECCO | Evolving PSO algorithm design in vector fields using geometric semantic GP. | Palina Bartashevich, Illya Bakurov, Sanaz Mostaghim, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2018 | PPSN | EDDA-V2 - An Improvement of the Evolutionary Demes Despeciation Algorithm. | Illya Bakurov, Leonardo Vanneschi, Mauro Castelli, Francesco Fontanella |
| 2018 | PPSN | PSO-Based Search Rules for Aerial Swarms Against Unexplored Vector Fields via Genetic Programming. | Palina Bartashevich, Illya Bakurov, Sanaz Mostaghim, Leonardo Vanneschi |
| 2017 | CEC | An initialization technique for geometric semantic GP based on demes evolution and despeciation. | Leonardo Vanneschi, Illya Bakurov, Mauro Castelli |