Awards

Evo* Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe 2025

José Ignacio Hidalgo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Colin Johnson (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)

Evo* 2025 Best Paper Awards

EuroGP

  • Systematic Evaluation of Evolving Highly Nonlinear Boolean Functions in Odd Sizes 
    Claude Carlet, Marko Đurasević, Domagoj Jakobovic, Stjepan Picek and Luca Mariot

See all the EuroGP best paper nominees here.

EvoApplications

  • Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding behaviour via non-episodic neuroevolution
    Max Taylor-Davies, Gautier Hamon, Timothé Boulet and Clement Moulin-Frier

See all the EvoApplications best paper nominees here.

EvoCOP

  • Evolutionary Anytime Algorithms 
    Aishwaryaprajna and Jonathan Rowe

See all the EvoCOP best paper nominees here.

EvoMUSART

  • Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With Long-Term Structure And Controllability
    Keshav Bhandari, Geraint A. Wiggins and Simon Colton

See all the EvoMUSART best paper nominees here.

Best Student Paper

  • Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding behaviour via non-episodic neuroevolution
    Max Taylor-Davies (et al.)

Best Poster

  • Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection
    Alina Geiger, Martin Briesch, Dominik Sobania and Franz Rothlauf

Runners-up:

  • Evolving the Embedding Space of Diffusion Models in the Field of Visual Arts
    Marcel Salvenmoser and Michael Affenzeller
  • Inferring Reaction Elasticities in Cells from Metabolic State Correlations through Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization
    Arthur Lequertier, Alberto Tonda and Wolfram Liebermeiste

The Great EvoStar Scavenger Hunt award

Team: Every Scavenger Have Brain Compensation (Renan Beran Kilic, Hassan Mir, Chiara Camila Rambaldi Migliore, Erik Nielsen, Stefano Genetti)

Outstanding Students

Listed in https://www.evostar.org/2025/outstanding-students-of-2025/

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