| 2026 | GECCO | Symbiogenesis: from Barricelli's Legacy to Collective Intelligence. | James Ashford, Berfin Sakallioglu, Marta Tataryn, Alessandro Valerio, Benedikt Hartl, Lo Pio-Lopez, Marko Cvjetko, Richard Lffler, Stefano Nichele |
| 2024 | GECCO | The Role of the Substrate in CA-based Evolutionary Algorithms. | Gloria Pietropolli, Stefano Nichele, Eric Medvet |
| 2024 | IJCNN | Chaotic Time Series Prediction in Biological Neural Network Reservoirs on Microelectrode Arrays. | Trym A. E. Lindell, Ola Huse Ramstad, Ioanna Sandvig, Axel Sandvig, Stefano Nichele |
| 2023 | GECCO | Optimization of a Hydrodynamic Computational Reservoir through Evolution. | Alessandro Pierro, Kristine Heiney, Shamit Shrivastava, Giulia Marcucci, Stefano Nichele |
| 2022 | GECCO | A single neural cellular automaton for body-brain co-evolution. | Sidney Pontes-Filho, Kathryn Walker, Elias Najarro, Stefano Nichele, Sebastian Risi |
| 2022 | HCI | An HCI Experiment to Explore Interactive Artificial Life Art. | Glare Dumo, Pedro G. Lind, Stefano Nichele |
| 2021 | GECCO | On the effects of pruning on evolved neural controllers for soft robots. | Giorgia Nadizar, Eric Medvet, Felice Andrea Pellegrino, Marco Zullich, Stefano Nichele |
| 2016 | CEC | Towards standalone in-materio devices: Stable logic gates and elementary cellular automata in carbon nanotubes material. | Sigve Sebastian Farstad, Stefano Nichele, Gunnar Tufte |
| 2016 | PPSN | Genotype Regulation by Self-modifying Instruction-Based Development on Cellular Automata. | Stefano Nichele, Tom Eivind Glover, Gunnar Tufte |
| 2012 | UC | Genome Parameters as Information to Forecast Emergent Developmental Behaviors. | Stefano Nichele, Gunnar Tufte |
| 2011 | GECCO | Discrete dynamics of cellular machines: specification and interpretation. | Stefano Nichele |
| 2011 | GECCO | On the correlations between developmental diversity and genomic composition. | Gunnar Tufte, Stefano Nichele |
| 2010 | CEC | Trajectories and attractors as specification for the evolution of behaviour in cellular automata. | Stefano Nichele, Gunnar Tufte |