Awards

Evo* Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe 2026

Francisco Fernández de Vega (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)

Evo* 2026 Best Paper Awards

EuroGP

  • Semantic Search Trajectory Networks for Understanding Genetic Programming
    Josip Hrvatić, Magda Smolić-Ročak, Marko Đurasević and Gabriela Ochoa

See all the EuroGP best paper nominees here.

EvoApplications

  • Toward Reliable Uncertainty Quantification in Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms via Temporal Conformal Prediction
    Emanuele Nardone, Claudio De Stefano, Alessandra Scotto di Freca, Francesco Fontanella and Tiziana D’Alessandro

See all the EvoApplications best paper nominees here.

EvoCOP

  • Gray-Box Enhanced Decomposition-based Local Search for Multi-Objective NK-Landscapes
    Francesco Cecere, Bilel Derbel, Darrell Whitley and Surendra Kurivella

See all the EvoCOP best paper nominees here.

EvoMUSART

  • Fluid Body: An Adaptive Embodied Sonification System for Cross-Cultural Performance
    Yuting Xue and Yueshen Wu

See all the EvoMUSART best paper nominees here.

Best Student Paper

  • Adaptive Curriculum Learning in Genetic Programming–Guided Local Search for Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problems
    Saining Liu (et al.)

Best Poster

  • Life Beings: Living Quantum Art
    Alain Lioret, Kamal Hennou and Florentin Eraud

Runner-up:

  • Combining Grammatical Evolution with LLM-based Local Search to Improve Interpretability
    Berfin Sakallioglu, Frederico Santos, Daniel Parra, Yuxin Qiu, Miguel Nicolau, Leonardo Trujillo and Ignacio Hidalgo

The Great EvoStar Scavenger Hunt award

Team: GREATIANS (Sofia Pereira, Daniel Hambly, Alessia Novacco and Marcel Salvenmoser)

Runner-up: Team evostar26 Nothing Toulouse (Renan Beran Kilic, Erik Nielsen and Stefano Genetti)

Outstanding Students

Listed in https://www.evostar.org/2026/outstanding-students-of-2026/

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