| 2026 | GECCO | Local Search Hyper-heuristics For Neural Architecture Search. | Johannes de Clercq, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2025 | GECCO | Advances in Evolutionary Hyper-Heuristics. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2025 | IJCNN | Artificial Intelligence for Critical Infrastructure Systems: Past, Present and Future. | Nelishia Pillay, Thambo Nyathi, Ganesh Kumar Venayagamoorthy |
| 2025 | PRICAI | A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Bi-space Search for Bin Packing Problems. | Derrick Beckdahl, Nelishia Pillay, Thambo Nyathi |
| 2024 | CEC | Dynamic Algorithm Composition for Image Segmentation. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | CEC | Dynamic Function Generation for Text Classification. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | CEC | Tailoring Metaheuristics for Designing Thermodynamic-Optimal Cooling Devices for Microelectronic Thermal Management Applications. | Guillermo Prez-Espinosa, Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, Jos Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Hugo Terashima-Marn, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | GECCO | Dynamic Neural Architecture Search for Image Classification. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | GECCO | Machine Learning for Evolutionary Computation - the Vehicle Routing Problems Competition. | Weiyao Meng, Rong Qu, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | GECCO | Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Spaces. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | ICAISC | A Comparison of Genetic Programming and Grammatical Evolution for the Generation of Fuzzy ART Choice Functions. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | ICAISC | Hybridising Genetic Programming Variants for Regression. | Cry Kuranga, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | ICAISC | A Study of Classifiers for Marking Short Answers in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. | Nelishia Pillay, Gisele Marais |
| 2024 | ICAISC | Evolving Velocity Equations for Particle Swarm Optimisation for Function Approximation. | Michael du Plessis, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2024 | IJCCI | Improving the Performance of Genetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Using Machine Learning for Knowledge Transfer. | George Mweshi, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | Automated algorithm composition of unsupervised image clustering algorithms. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | An analysis of choice functions for Fuzzy ART using grammatical evolution. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | Iterative Structure-Based Genetic Programming for Neural Architecture Search. | Rahul Kapoor, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Spaces. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | A Selection Hyper-Heuristic for Transfer Learning in Genetic Programming. | Jeffrey Russell, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2023 | GECCO | A Study of Ant-Based Pheromone Spaces for Generation Perturbative Hyper-Heuristics. | Emilio Singh, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | A Transfer Learning Hyper-heuristic Approach for Automatic Tailoring of Unfolded Population-based Metaheuristics. | Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, Jos Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | Automated Design of Hybrid Metaheuristics: A Fitness Landscape Analysis. | Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | Hybridizing A Genetic Algorithm With Reinforcement Learning for Automated Design of Genetic Algorithms. | Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | Bicriterion Coevolution for the Multi-objective Travelling Salesperson Problem. | Ying Ying Liu, Parimala Thulasiraman, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | A Study of Transfer Learning in an Ant-Based Generation Construction Hyper-Heuristic. | Emilio Singh, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | CEC | A Primary Study on Hyper-Heuristics Powered by Artificial Neural Networks for Customising Population-based Metaheuristics in Continuous Optimisation Problems. | Jose M. Tapia-Avitia, Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, Jos Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Hugo Terashima-Marn, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | GECCO | Transfer learning in evolutionary spaces. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | ICAISC | Bi-Space Search: Optimizing the Hybridization of Search Spaces in Solving the One Dimensional Bin Packing Problem. | Derrick Beckedahl, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | ICAISC | Automated Design of Dynamic Heuristic Set Selection for Cross-Domain Selection Hyper-Heuristics. | Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | ICAISC | A Comparative Study of Genetic Programming Variants. | Cry Kuranga, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2022 | ICAISC | An Improved Structure-Based Partial Solution Search for the Examination Timetabling Problem. | Christopher Rajah, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2021 | CEC | Automated Design of Unfolded Metaheuristics and the Effect of Population Size. | Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Ivan Amaya, Jos Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2021 | ICAISC | A Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for Diagnosing Multiple Myeloma. | Luveshan Marimuthu, Nelishia Pillay, Rivak Punchoo, Sachin Bhoora |
| 2021 | ICAISC | Quantifying the Severity of Common Rust in Maize Using Mask R-CNN. | Nelishia Pillay, Mia Gerber, Katerina Holan, Steven A. Whitham, Dave K. Berger |
| 2021 | ICAISC | Ant-Based Hyper-Heuristics for the Movie Scene Scheduling Problem. | Emilio Singh, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2021 | IJCNN | Automated Hyper-Parameter Tuning of a Mask R-CNN for Quantifying Common Rust Severity in Maize. | Mia Gerber, Nelishia Pillay, Katerina Holan, Steven A. Whitham, Dave K. Berger |
| 2020 | ICAISC | A Study of Bi-space Search for Solving the One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem. | Derrick Beckedahl, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2020 | IJCNN | A Comparative Study of Classifiers for Thumbnail Selection. | Kyle Pretorious, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2019 | CEC | A Grammatical Evolution Approach for the Automated Generation of Perturbative Heuristics. | George Mweshi, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2019 | CEC | A Structure-Based Partial Solution Search for the Examination Timetabling Problem. | Christopher Rajah, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2018 | CEC | An Improved Meta-Genetic Algorithm for Hybridizing Metaheuristics. | Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2018 | ISDA | A Study of Multi-space Search Optimization. | Derrick Beckedahl, Andreas Nel, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2018 | PPSN | Tutorials at PPSN 2018. | Gisele Lobo Pappa, Michael T. M. Emmerich, Ana L. C. Bazzan, Will N. Browne, Kalyanmoy Deb, Carola Doerr, Marko Durasevic, Michael G. Epitropakis, Saemundur O. Haraldsson, Domagoj Jakobovic, Pascal Kerschke, Krzysztof Krawiec, Per Kristian Lehre, Xiaodong Li, Andrei Lissovoi, Pekka Malo, Luis Mart, Yi Mei, Juan Julin Merelo Guervs, Julian F. Miller, Alberto Moraglio, Antonio J. Nebro, Su Nguyen, Gabriela Ochoa, Pietro S. Oliveto, Stjepan Picek, Nelishia Pillay, Mike Preuss, Marc Schoenauer, Roman Senkerik, Ankur Sinha, Ofer M. Shir, Dirk Sudholt, L. Darrell Whitley, Mark Wineberg, John R. Woodward, Mengjie Zhang |
| 2017 | CEC | EvoHyp - a Java toolkit for evolutionary algorithm hyper-heuristics. | Nelishia Pillay, Derrick Beckedahl |
| 2017 | EPIA | A Meta-Genetic Algorithm for Hybridizing Metaheuristics. | Ahmed Hassan, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2016 | CEC | Evolving construction heuristics for the curriculum based university course timetabling problem. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2016 | PPSN | Tutorials at PPSN 2016. | Carola Doerr, Nicolas Bredche, Enrique Alba, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein, Dimo Brockhoff, Benjamin Doerr, Gusz Eiben, Michael G. Epitropakis, Carlos M. Fonseca, Andreia P. Guerreiro, Evert Haasdijk, Jacqueline Heinerman, Julien Hubert, Per Kristian Lehre, Luigi Malag, Juan Julin Merelo Guervs, Julian Francis Miller, Boris Naujoks, Pietro S. Oliveto, Stjepan Picek, Nelishia Pillay, Mike Preuss, Patricia Ryser-Welch, Giovanni Squillero, Jrg Stork, Dirk Sudholt, Alberto Paolo Tonda, L. Darrell Whitley, Martin Zaefferer |
| 2015 | CEC | Evolving game playing strategies for Othello. | Clive Frankland, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2015 | IJCCI | Combining Development and Evolution. | Christopher Rajah, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2014 | ISDA | A Hyper-heuristic approach towards mitigating Premature Convergence caused by the objective fitness function in GP. | Anisa W. Ragalo, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2013 | ICAART | Constrained Minimum-Variance PID Control using Hybrid Nelder-Mead Simplex and Swarm Intelligence. | Nelishia Pillay, P. Govender |
| 2008 | EUROGP | Using Genetic Programming for Turing Machine Induction. | Amashini Naidoo, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2008 | PPSN | A Developmental Approach to the Uncapacitated Examination Timetabling Problem. | Nelishia Pillay, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2007 | EPIA | A Genetic Programming Approach to the Generation of Hyper-Heuristics for the Uncapacitated Examination Timetabling Problem. | Nelishia Pillay, Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 2007 | EUROGP | The Induction of Finite Transducers Using Genetic Programming. | Amashini Naidoo, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2005 | GECCO | An investigation into using genetic programming as a means of inducing solutions to novice procedural programming problems. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2004 | ICALT | Analysis of Spreadsheet Errors Made by Computer Literacy Students. | Tanja Reinhardt, Nelishia Pillay |
| 2004 | ITiCSE | A first course in genetic programming. | Nelishia Pillay |
| 2002 | SAC | Using genetic programming for the induction of novice procedural programming solution algorithms. | Nelishia Pillay |