| 2026 | GECCO | Investigating Quantum Circuit Designs Using Neuro-Evolution. | Devroop Kar, Daniel E. Krutz, Travis Desell |
| 2026 | GECCO | Diversifying Toxicity Search in Large Language Models Through Speciation. | Onkar Shelar, Travis Desell |
| 2026 | GECCO | Investigating Memetic Scheduling Strategies for Distributed Neuroevolution. | Diana Velychko, Travis Desell |
| 2025 | GECCO | CG-CANTS-N: A Versatile Graph-Based Framework for Scalable and Adaptive Problem Solving Across Domains. | AbdElRahman ElSaid, Travis Desell |
| 2025 | GECCO | Evaluation Time Bias in Asynchronous Evolutionary Algorithms: A Replication Study and a Novel Mitigation Strategy. | Joshua Karns, Travis Desell |
| 2025 | GECCO | Visualizing the Dynamics of Neuroevolution with Genetic Distance Projections. | Evan Patterson, Joshua Karns, Zimeng Lyu, Travis Desell |
| 2025 | ICLR | Can We Ignore Labels in Out of Distribution Detection? | Hong Yang, Qi Yu, Travis Desell |
| 2025 | IJCNN | Minimally Supervised Regression using Topological Projections in Self-Organizing Maps. | Zimeng Lyu, Alexander Ororbia, Rui Li, Travis Desell |
| 2024 | GECCO | Enabling An Informed Contextual Multi-Armed Bandit Framework For Stock Trading With Neuroevolution. | Devroop Kar, Zimeng Lyu, Alexander G. Ororbia II, Travis Desell, Daniel E. Krutz |
| 2024 | GECCO | Minimizing the EXA-GP Graph-Based Genetic Programming Algorithm for Interpretable Time Series Forecasting. | Jared Murphy, Travis Desell |
| 2024 | GECCO | EXA-GP: Unifying Graph-Based Genetic Programming and Neuroevolution for Explainable Time Series Forecasting. | Jared Murphy, Devroop Kar, Joshua Karns, Travis Desell |
| 2024 | IJCNN | Minimally Supervised Topological Projections of Self-Organizing Maps for Phase of Flight Identification. | Zimeng Lyu, Pujan Thapa, Travis Desell |
| 2023 | GECCO | Local Stochastic Differentiable Architecture Search for Memetic Neuroevolution Algorithms. | Joshua Karns, Travis Desell |
| 2023 | GECCO | Co-evolving Recurrent Neural Networks and their Hyperparameters with Simplex Hyperparameter Optimization. | Amit Dilip Kini, Swaraj Sambhaji Yadav, Aditya Shankar Thakur, Akshar Bajrang Awari, Zimeng Lyu, Travis Desell |
| 2022 | AAAI | Reducing Catastrophic Forgetting in Self Organizing Maps with Internally-Induced Generative Replay (Student Abstract). | Hitesh Vaidya, Travis Desell, Alexander G. Ororbia II |
| 2022 | AAAI | Predictive Maintenance for General Aviation Using Convolutional Transformers. | Hong Yang, Aidan P. LaBella, Travis Desell |
| 2022 | GECCO | Addressing tactic volatility in self-adaptive systems using evolved recurrent neural networks and uncertainty reduction tactics. | Aizaz Ul Haq, Niranjana Deshpande, AbdElRahman ElSaid, Travis Desell, Daniel E. Krutz |
| 2022 | GECCO | ONE-NAS: an online neuroevolution based neural architecture search for time series forecasting. | Zimeng Lyu, Travis Desell |
| 2022 | LREC | Transfer Learning Methods for Domain Adaptation in Technical Logbook Datasets. | Farhad Akhbardeh, Marcos Zampieri, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Travis Desell |
| 2022 | SAC | Optimized flight safety event detection in the national general aviation flight information database. | Aidan P. LaBella, Joshua A. Karns, Farhad Akhbardeh, Travis Desell, Andrew J. Walton, Zechariah Morgan, Brandon Wild, Mark Dusenbury |
| 2021 | ACL | Handling Extreme Class Imbalance in Technical Logbook Datasets. | Farhad Akhbardeh, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, Marcos Zampieri, Travis Desell |
| 2021 | GECCO | Improving the scalability of distributed neuroevolution using modular congruence class generated innovation numbers. | Joshua Karns, Travis Desell |
| 2021 | GECCO | Neuroevolution of recurrent neural networks for time series forecasting of coal-fired power plant operating parameters. | Zimeng Lyu, Shuchita Patwardhan, David Stadem, James Langfeld, Steven A. Benson, Seth Thoelke, Travis Desell |
| 2020 | COLING | MaintNet: A Collaborative Open-Source Library for Predictive Maintenance Language Resources. | Farhad Akhbardeh, Travis Desell, Marcos Zampieri |
| 2020 | GECCO | Improving neuroevolutionary transfer learning of deep recurrent neural networks through network-aware adaptation. | AbdElRahman ElSaid, Joshua Karns, Zimeng Lyu, Daniel E. Krutz, Alexander Ororbia, Travis Desell |
| 2020 | IJCNLP | NLP Tools for Predictive Maintenance Records in MaintNet. | Farhad Akhbardeh, Travis Desell, Marcos Zampieri |
| 2019 | GECCO | Investigating recurrent neural network memory structures using neuro-evolution. | Alexander Ororbia, AbdElRahman ElSaid, Travis Desell |
| 2019 | ICSE | Is adaptivity a core property of intelligent systems?: it depends. | AbdElRahman ElSaid, Travis Desell, Daniel E. Krutz |
| 2018 | GECCO | Accelerating the evolution of convolutional neural networks with node-level mutations and epigenetic weight initialization. | Travis Desell |
| 2018 | GECCO | Using ant colony optimization to optimize long short-term memory recurrent neural networks. | AbdElRahman ElSaid, Fatima El Jamiy, James Higgins, Brandon Wild, Travis Desell |
| 2018 | ICCS | Detecting Wildlife in Unmanned Aerial Systems Imagery Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained with an Automated Feedback Loop. | Connor Bowley, Marshall Mattingly, Andrew Barnas, Susan Ellis-Felege, Travis Desell |
| 2018 | ICCS | Classifying Aircraft Approach Type in the National General Aviation Flight Information Database. | Kelton Karboviak, Sophine Clachar, Travis Desell, Mark Dusenbury, Wyatt Hedrick, James Higgins, John Walberg, Brandon Wild |
| 2017 | GECCO | Large scale evolution of convolutional neural networks using volunteer computing. | Travis Desell |
| 2017 | GECCO | Optimizing LSTM RNNs using ACO to predict turbine engine vibration. | AbdElRahman ElSaid, Brandon Wild, Fatima El Jamiy, James Higgins, Travis Desell |
| 2015 | ICCS | On the Effectiveness of Crowd Sourcing Avian Nesting Video Analysis at Wildlife@Home. | Travis Desell, Kyle Goehner, Alicia Andes, Rebecca Eckroad, Susan Ellis-Felege |
| 2014 | PPSN | Evolving Neural Network Weights for Time-Series Prediction of General Aviation Flight Data. | Travis Desell, Sophine Clachar, James Higgins, Brandon Wild |