| 2025 | GECCO | Giving Simulated Cells a Voice: Evolving Prompt-to-Intervention Models for Cellular Control. | Nam Le, Patrick Erickson, Yanbo Zhang, Michael Levin, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2023 | GECCO | Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata. | Caitlin Grasso, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2023 | GECCO | Universal Mechanical Polycomputation in Granular Matter. | Atoosa Parsa, Sven Witthaus, Nidhi Pashine, Corey S. O'Hern, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2023 | GECCO | Morphology Choice Affects the Evolution of Affordance Detection in Robots. | Federico Pigozzi, Stephanie J. Woodman, Eric Medvet, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2022 | GECCO | Selecting continuous life-like cellular automata for halting unpredictability: evolving for abiogenesis. | Q. Tyrell Davis, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2022 | GECCO | Empowered neural cellular automata. | Caitlin Grasso, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2022 | GECCO | Evolving programmable computational metamaterials. | Atoosa Parsa, Dong Wang, Corey S. O'Hern, Mark D. Shattuck, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2020 | ICRA | Sim2real gap is non-monotonic with robot complexity for morphology-in-the-loop flapping wing design. | Kent Rosser, Jia Kok, Javaan S. Chahl, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2019 | IROS | Word2vec to behavior: morphology facilitates the grounding of language in machines. | David Matthews, Sam Kriegman, Collin Cappelle, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2018 | CogSci | Gene Duplication, Modularity, and the Evolution of Intelligence in Simulated and Real Robots. | Nicholas Livingston, Ben K. Tidswell, Meghan Willcoxon, Theresa Law, Gabriel Dell'Accio, Mackenzie Little, John H. Long Jr., Josh C. Bongard, Kenneth R. Livingston |
| 2018 | GECCO | Combating catastrophic forgetting with developmental compression. | Shawn L. E. Beaulieu, Sam Kriegman, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2018 | GECCO | Interoceptive robustness through environment-mediated morphological development. | Sam Kriegman, Nick Cheney, Francesco Corucci, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2018 | GECCO | Embodiment can combat catastrophic forgetting. | Joshua P. Powers, Sam Kriegman, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2017 | GECCO | Ecological modularity as a means to reduce necessary training environments in evolutionary robotics. | Collin Cappelle, Anton Bernatskiy, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2017 | GECCO | A minimal developmental model can increase evolvability in soft robots. | Sam Kriegman, Nick Cheney, Francesco Corucci, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2017 | GECCO | Simulating the evolution of soft and rigid-body robots. | Sam Kriegman, Collin Cappelle, Francesco Corucci, Anton Bernatskiy, Nick Cheney, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2016 | ALIFE | Robots can ground crowd-proposed symbols by forming theories of group mind. | Josh C. Bongard, Joey Anetsberger |
| 2016 | ALIFE | Material properties affect evolutions ability to exploit morphological computation in growing soft-bodied creatures. | Josh C. Bongard, Cecilia Laschi, Hod Lipson, Nick Cheney, Francesco Corucci |
| 2016 | ALIFE | Social Contribution in the Design of Adaptive Machines on the Web. | Josh C. Bongard, Mark Wagy |
| 2016 | ALIFE | On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures. | Hod Lipson, Vytas SunSpiral, Josh C. Bongard, Nicholas Cheney |
| 2016 | GECCO | Recombination Hotspots Promote the Evolvability of Modular Systems. | Ari Larson, Anton Bernatskiy, Collin Cappelle, Kenneth R. Livingston, Nicholas Livingston, John H. Long Jr., Jodi Schwarz, Marc L. Smith, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2016 | GECCO | Reducing Antagonism between Behavioral Diversity and Fitness in Semantic Genetic Programming. | Marcin Szubert, Anuradha Kodali, Sangram Ganguly, Kamalika Das, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2016 | PPSN | Evolving Spatially Aggregated Features from Satellite Imagery for Regional Modeling. | Sam Kriegman, Marcin Szubert, Josh C. Bongard, Christian Skalka |
| 2016 | PPSN | Exploring Uncertainty and Movement in Categorical Perception Using Robots. | Nathaniel Powell, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2016 | PPSN | Semantic Forward Propagation for Symbolic Regression. | Marcin Szubert, Anuradha Kodali, Sangram Ganguly, Kamalika Das, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2015 | GECCO | Exploiting the Relationship Between Structural Modularity and Sparsity for Faster Network Evolution. | Anton Bernatskiy, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2015 | GECCO | Evolving Robot Morphology Facilitates the Evolution of Neural Modularity and Evolvability. | Josh C. Bongard, Anton Bernatskiy, Kenneth R. Livingston, Nicholas Livingston, John H. Long Jr., Marc L. Smith |
| 2015 | GECCO | Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces. | Nick Cheney, Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson |
| 2015 | GECCO | Crowdseeding Robot Design. | Mark D. Wagy, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2015 | GECCO | An Embodied Approach for Evolving Robust Visual Classifiers. | Karol Zieba, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2015 | GECCO | A Genetic Programming Approach to Cost-Sensitive Control in Resource Constrained Sensor Systems. | Afsoon Yousefi Zowj, Josh C. Bongard, Christian Skalka |
| 2014 | ALIFE | Improving Robot Behavior Optimization by Combining User Preferences. | Anton Bernatskiy, Gregory Hornby, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2013 | GECCO | Combining fitness-based search and user modeling in evolutionary robotics. | Josh C. Bongard, Gregory S. Hornby |
| 2012 | ALIFE | On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2012 | GECCO | On the relationship between environmental and morphological complexity in evolved robots. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2012 | GECCO | Interactive simulated robot construction and controller evolution. | Paul Beliveau, Gregory Hornby, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2012 | GECCO | Avoiding local optima with interactive evolutionary robotics. | Josh C. Bongard, Paul Beliveau, Gregory Hornby |
| 2012 | GECCO | Not all physics simulators can be wrong in the same way. | Shane Eric Celis, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2012 | GECCO | Accelerating human-computer collaborative search through learning comparative and predictive user models. | Gregory S. Hornby, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2011 | GECCO | Evolving complete robots with CPPN-NEAT: the utility of recurrent connections. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2011 | GECCO | Morphological and environmental scaffolding synergize when evolving robot controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2011 | GECCO | Spontaneous evolution of structural modularity in robot neural network controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | ALIFE | Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | GECCO | Evolving CPPNs to grow three-dimensional physical structures. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | GECCO | Morphological scaffolding: how evolution and development improve robot behavior generation. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | GECCO | A probabilistic functional crossover operator for genetic programming. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | GECCO | Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search. | Josh C. Bongard, Gregory S. Hornby |
| 2010 | KDD | Ensemble pruning via individual contribution ordering. | Zhenyu Lu, Xindong Wu, Xingquan Zhu, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2010 | SDM | Adaptive Informative Sampling for Active Learning. | Zhenyu Lu, Xindong Wu, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2009 | CEC | How robot morphology and training order affect the learning of multiple behaviors. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2009 | GECCO | Evolution of functional specialization in a morphologically homogeneous robot. | Joshua Evan Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2009 | GECCO | The impact of jointly evolving robot morphology and control on adaptation rate. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2009 | GECCO | Combined structure and motion extraction from visual data using evolutionary active learning. | Krishnanand N. Kaipa, Josh C. Bongard, Andrew N. Meltzoff |
| 2009 | GECCO | Exploiting multiple classifier types with active learning. | Zhenyu Lu, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2009 | ICDM | Active Learning with Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembles. | Zhenyu Lu, Xindong Wu, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2008 | ALIFE | Behavior Chaining - Incremental Behavior Integration for Evolutionary Robotics. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2008 | GECCO | Informative sampling for large unbalanced data sets. | Zhenyu Lu, Anand I. Rughani, Bruce I. Tranmer, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2007 | GECCO | Action-selection and crossover strategies for self-modeling machines. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2007 | GECCO | Exploiting multiple robots to accelerate self-modeling. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2006 | IAS | Evolutionary Robotics for Legged Machines: From Simulation to Physical Reality. | Hod Lipson, Josh C. Bongard, Viktor Zykov, Evan Malone |
| 2005 | GECCO | 'Managed challenge' alleviates disengagement in co-evolutionary system identification. | Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson |
| 2004 | GECCO | Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution. | Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson |
| 2004 | ICRA | Automated Damage Diagnosis and Recovery for Remote Robotics. | Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson |
| 2002 | CEC | Evolving modular genetic regulatory networks. | Josh C. Bongard |
| 2002 | GECCO | Behavioural Selection Pressure Generates Hierarchical Genetic Regulatory Networks. | Josh C. Bongard, Rolf Pfeifer |
| 2001 | IROS | The road less travelled: morphology in the optimization of biped robot locomotion. | Chandana Paul, Josh C. Bongard |
| 2000 | EUROGP | The Legion System: A Novel Approach to Evolving Hetrogeneity for Collective Problem Solving. | Josh C. Bongard |