{"id":861,"date":"2025-05-26T20:51:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/?page_id=861"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T18:52:34","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Evo* Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe 2025<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Hidalgo<strong> (Universidad  Complutense de Madrid, Spain)<\/strong><br>Colin Johnson (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Evo* 2025 Best Paper Awards<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EuroGP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Systematic Evaluation of Evolving Highly Nonlinear Boolean Functions in Odd Sizes&nbsp;<\/strong><br><em>Claude Carlet, Marko \u0110urasevi\u0107, Domagoj Jakobovic, Stjepan Picek and Luca Mariot<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See all the EuroGP best paper nominees&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/eurogp-best-paper-nominees\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EvoApplications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding behaviour via non-episodic neuroevolution<\/strong><br><em>Max Taylor-Davies, Gautier Hamon, Timoth\u00e9 Boulet and Clement Moulin-Frier<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See all the EvoApplications best paper nominees\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/evoapplications-best-paper-nominees\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EvoCOP<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Evolutionary Anytime Algorithms&nbsp;<\/strong><br><em>Aishwaryaprajna and Jonathan Rowe<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See all the EvoCOP best paper nominees&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/evocop-best-paper-nominees\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">EvoMUSART<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Yin-Yang: Developing Motifs With Long-Term Structure And Controllability<\/strong><br><em>Keshav Bhandari, Geraint A. Wiggins and Simon Colton <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See all the EvoMUSART best paper nominees&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/evomusart-best-paper-nominees\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Best Student Paper<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Emergent kin selection of altruistic feeding behaviour via non-episodic neuroevolution<\/strong><br><em>Max Taylor-Davies (et al.)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Best Poster<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Was Tournament Selection All We Ever Needed? A Critical Reflection on Lexicase Selection<\/strong><br><em>Alina Geiger, Martin Briesch, Dominik Sobania and Franz Rothlauf<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Runners-up:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Evolving the Embedding Space of Diffusion Models in the Field of Visual Arts<\/strong><br><em>Marcel Salvenmoser and Michael Affenzeller<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Inferring Reaction Elasticities in Cells from Metabolic State Correlations through Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization<\/strong><br><em>Arthur Lequertier, Alberto Tonda and Wolfram Liebermeiste<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">The Great EvoStar Scavenger Hunt award<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Team: <strong><em>Every Scavenger Have Brain Compensation<\/em><\/strong> (Renan Beran Kilic, Hassan Mir, Chiara Camila Rambaldi Migliore, Erik Nielsen, Stefano Genetti)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Outstanding Students<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Listed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/outstanding-students-of-2025\/\">https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2025\/outstanding-students-of-2025\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Previous Evo* Awards:<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2024: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veterinaria.unito.it\/do\/docenti.pl\/Alias?mario.giacobini#tab-profilo\">Mario Giacobini<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2024\/awards\/\">announcement page<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2023: <a href=\"https:\/\/homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz\/~mengjie\/\">Mengjie Zhang<\/a> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/awards\/\">announcement page<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022: <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.aston.ac.uk\/eas\/staff\/a-z\/dr-aniko-ekart\">Aniko Ekart<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2022\/awards\/\">announcement page<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2021: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ul.ie\/hri\/person\/hri-member\/prof-conor-ryan\">Conor Ryan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/citic.udc.es\/juan-romero-investigador-del-area-de-inteligencia-artificial-del-citic-nominado-a-mejor-docente-de-espana-2021\/\">Juan Romero<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/awards\/\">announcement page<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.stir.ac.uk\/~goc\/\">Gabriela Ochoa<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2020\/Awards\/\">announcement page<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2019: <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.it\/citations?user=gFxqc64AAAAJ&amp;hl=es&amp;oi=sra\">JJ Merelo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcc.uma.es\/~ccottap\">Carlos Cotta<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2019\/awards_outstanding.php\">[announcement page]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018: <a href=\"https:\/\/ciencias.ulisboa.pt\/pt\/perfil\/sgsilva\">Sara Silva<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2018\/awards_outstanding.php\">[announcement page]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.vu.nl\/~gusz\/\"> Gusz Eiben<\/a> and <a href=\"people.ibest.uidaho.edu\/~foster\/\">James Foster <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2017\/awards_outstanding.php\">[announcement page]<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdv.dei.uc.pt\/authors\/penousal-machado\/\">Penousal Machado<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2016\/awards_outstanding.php\">[announcement page]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/aiesparcia\/\">Anna Esparcia-Alcazar<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novaims.unl.pt\/Docentes-Investigacao\/Detalhe-Docente.asp?IDDocente=196\">Leonardo Vanneschi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2015\/awards_outstanding.php\">[announcement page]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014: Terence C. Fogarty <a href=\"http:\/\/www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/staff\/ucacbbl\/egp2014\/terry_fogarty.jpg\">[pic]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+JJMerelo\/posts\/bYnqVYfR7ZN?cfem=1\">[movie]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/people.csail.mit.edu\/unamay\/\">Una-May O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ru.nl\/~elenam\/\">Elena Marchiori<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ads.tuwien.ac.at\/people\/Raidl.html\">Guenther R. Raidl<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elec.york.ac.uk\/staff\/academic\/jfm.html\">Julian Miller<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hec.unil.ch\/people\/mtomassini\">Marco Tomassini<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/61761673@N00\/4510927716\/\">[pic]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009: <a href=\"http:\/\/ernesto.dei.uc.pt\">Ernesto Costa<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ce.unipr.it\/people\/cagnoni\/\">Stefano Cagnoni<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2378913548\/\">[pic]<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bekas\/3483364499\/\">[pic]<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/staff\/W.Langdon\/\">Bill Langdon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lri.fr\/~marc\/\">Marc Schoenauer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2378963862\/\">[pic]<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.mun.ca\/~banzhaf\/\">Wolfgang Banzhaf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dces.essex.ac.uk\/staff\/rpoli\/\">Riccardo Poli<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006: Jennifer Willies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color\">Previous Awards:<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2024\/awards\/\">2024<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2023\/awards\/\">2023<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evostar.org\/2022\/awards\">2022<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2021\/awards\/\">2021<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2020\/awards\/\">2020<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2019\/programme_bestpapers.php\">2019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2018\/programme_bestpapers.php\">2018<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2017\/programme_bestpapers.php\">2017<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2016\/programme_bestpapers.php\">2016<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2014\/BestPaperAwards.html\">2014<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2013<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2010<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2009<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evo* Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe 2025 Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Hidalgo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)Colin Johnson (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom) Evo* 2025 Best Paper Awards EuroGP See all the EuroGP best paper nominees&nbsp;here. EvoApplications See all the EvoApplications best paper nominees\u00a0here. EvoCOP See all the EvoCOP best paper nominees&nbsp;here. 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