| 2026 | GECCO | Hot off the Press: The Genomic Code: The Genome Instantiates a Generative Model of the Organism. | Kevin J. Mitchell, Nick Cheney |
| 2026 | GECCO | Hot off the Press: The Variability of Evolvability: Properties of Dynamic Fitness Landscapes Determine how Phenotypic Variability Evolves. | Csenge Petak, Lapo Frati, Renske Vroomans, Melissa Helen Pespeni, Nick Cheney |
| 2025 | GECCO | Heterosis-Based Crossover: Leveraging Structural Differences to Control Diversity and Bloat in Genetic Programming. | Lute Lillo, Nick Cheney |
| 2025 | GECCO | Controller Distillation Reduces Fragile Brain-Body Co-Adaptation and Enables Migrations in MAP-Elites. | Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney |
| 2024 | ECAI | Reset It and Forget It: Relearning Last-Layer Weights Improves Continual and Transfer Learning. | Lapo Frati, Neil Traft, Jeff Clune, Nick Cheney |
| 2024 | EUROGP | Investigating Premature Convergence in Co-optimization of Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Soft Robots. | Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney |
| 2024 | GECCO | Towards Multi-Morphology Controllers with Diversity and Knowledge Distillation. | Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney |
| 2023 | GECCO | Neighbor-Hop Mutation for Genetic Algorithm in Influence Maximization. | Aviral Chawla, Nick Cheney |
| 2023 | GECCO | Many-objective Optimization via Voting for Elites. | Jackson Dean, Nick Cheney |
| 2023 | GECCO | OmnImage: Evolving 1k Image Cliques for Few-Shot Learning. | Lapo Frati, Neil Traft, Nick Cheney |
| 2023 | GECCO | Modular Controllers Facilitate the Co-Optimization of Morphology and Control in Soft Robots. | Alican Mertan, Nick Cheney |
| 2023 | GECCO | Coping with seasons: evolutionary dynamics of gene networks in a changing environment. | Csenge Petak, Lapo Frati, Melissa Helen Pespeni, Nick Cheney |
| 2020 | ECAI | Learning to Continually Learn. | Shawn Beaulieu, Lapo Frati, Thomas Miconi, Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley, Jeff Clune, Nick Cheney |
| 2018 | GECCO | Interoceptive robustness through environment-mediated morphological development. | Sam Kriegman, Nick Cheney, Francesco Corucci, 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 | 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 | How the Strictness of the Minimal Criterion Impacts Open-Ended Evolution. | Kenneth O. Stanley, Nick Cheney, Lisa B. Soros |
| 2015 | GECCO | Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces. | Nick Cheney, Josh C. Bongard, Hod Lipson |
| 2013 | GECCO | Unshackling evolution: evolving soft robots with multiple materials and a powerful generative encoding. | Nick Cheney, Robert MacCurdy, Jeff Clune, Hod Lipson |