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PhD Computer Science University of Zurich
Masters Computer Science University of Zurich
Bachelors Computer Science University of British Columbia

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According to Wikipedia, Josh Bongard is a professor at the University of Vermont and a 2010 PECASE awardee. He attended Northern Secondary School in Toronto, and received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from McMaster University , Canada, his master's degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich , Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University in the United States from 2003 to 2006.

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How the body shapes the way we think - a new view on intelligence (2006) (1132)
Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling (2006) (713)
Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems (2007) (570)
Machine behaviour (2019) (495)
Evolving modular genetic regulatory networks (2002) (238)
Three Dimensional Stochastic Reconfiguration of Modular Robots (2005) (222)
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Bradford Books) (2006) (220)
A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms (2020) (199)
Evolving Complete Agents using Artificial Ontogeny (2003) (183)
Repeated structure and dissociation of genotypic and phenotypic complexity in artificial ontogeny (2001) (171)
Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior (2011) (162)
Evolutionary robotics (2013) (155)
Nonlinear system identification using coevolution of models and tests (2005) (154)
New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems (2005) (153)
Environmental Influence on the Evolution of Morphological Complexity in Machines (2014) (116)
The road less travelled: morphology in the optimization of biped robot locomotion (2001) (98)
Ensemble pruning via individual contribution ordering (2010) (97)
Evolving Dynamic Gaits on a Physical Robot (2004) (90)
Investigating Morphological Symmetry and Locomotive Efficiency using Virtual Embodied Evolution (2000) (79)
Use of an artificial neural network to predict head injury outcome. (2010) (77)
in genetic (2015) (74)
How morphological development can guide evolution (2017) (69)
Active Coevolutionary Learning of Deterministic Finite Automata (2005) (66)
50 Years of Artificial Intelligence, Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence (2007) (65)
Biologically Inspired Computing (2009) (64)
Scalable co-optimization of morphology and control in embodied machines (2017) (62)
On the Difficulty of Co-Optimizing Morphology and Control in Evolved Virtual Creatures (2016) (61)
Improving genetic programming based symbolic regression using deterministic machine learning (2013) (59)
Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces (2015) (59)
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines (2021) (57)
Evolutionary Robotics for Legged Machines: From Simulation to Physical Reality (2006) (57)
Behavior Chaining - Incremental Behavior Integration for Evolutionary Robotics (2008) (54)
On the relationship between environmental and morphological complexity in evolved robots (2012) (53)
A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change (2020) (52)
Dynamic Resolution in the Co-Evolution of Morphology and Control (2010) (52)
Making Evolution an Offer It Can't Refuse: Morphology and the Extradimensional Bypass (2001) (52)
Co‐evolutionary algorithm for structural damage identification using minimal physical testing (2007) (48)
Evolving CPPNs to grow three-dimensional physical structures (2010) (48)
Crowdsourcing Predictors of Behavioral Outcomes (2012) (47)
The Legion System: A Novel Approach to Evolving Hetrogeneity for Collective Problem Solving (2000) (47)
Evolving complete robots with CPPN-NEAT: the utility of recurrent connections (2011) (46)
Automated shapeshifting for function recovery in damaged robots (2019) (45)
Shape Changing Robots: Bioinspiration, Simulation, and Physical Realization (2020) (45)
Evolving soft locomotion in aquatic and terrestrial environments: effects of material properties and environmental transitions (2017) (44)
A method for isolating morphological effects on evolved behaviour (2002) (43)
Crowdsourcing Novel Childhood Predictors of Adult Obesity (2013) (42)
Automated damage diagnosis and recovery for remote robotics (2004) (41)
The Utility of Evolving Simulated Robot Morphology Increases with Task Complexity for Object Manipulation (2010) (37)
Scalable sim-to-real transfer of soft robot designs (2019) (35)
Living Things Are Not (20th Century) Machines: Updating Mechanism Metaphors in Light of the Modern Science of Machine Behavior (2021) (34)
Biological underpinnings for lifelong learning machines (2022) (34)
Automated robot function recovery after unanticipated failure or environmental change using a minimum of hardware trials (2004) (34)
On the Relationship Between Environmental and Mechanical Complexity in Evolved Robots (2012) (33)
Once More Unto the Breach1: Co-evolving a robot and its simulator (2004) (31)
Morphological and environmental scaffolding synergize when evolving robot controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware (2011) (31)
Towards enduring autonomous robots via embodied energy (2022) (30)
Combining fitness-based search and user modeling in evolutionary robotics (2013) (30)
Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms (2021) (30)
Active Learning through Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembling (2015) (29)
Automating Genetic Network Inference with Minimal Physical Experimentation Using Coevolution (2004) (28)
Material properties affect evolutions ability to exploit morphological computation in growing soft-bodied creatures (2016) (27)
How robot morphology and training order affect the learning of multiple behaviors (2009) (27)
Spontaneous evolution of structural modularity in robot neural network controllers: artificial life/robotics/evolvable hardware (2011) (26)
A minimal developmental model can increase evolvability in soft robots (2017) (26)
Embodied Intelligence (2015) (25)
Guarding against premature convergence while accelerating evolutionary search (2010) (23)
Automated Synthesis of Body Schema using Multiple Sensor Modalities (2006) (23)
Evolved Machines Shed Light on Robustness and Resilience (2014) (22)
GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2007) (21)
'Managed challenge' alleviates disengagement in co-evolutionary system identification (2005) (20)
Interoceptive robustness through environment-mediated morphological development (2018) (19)
Incremental approaches to the combined evolution of a robot''s body and brain (2003) (19)
Innocent Until Proven Guilty: Reducing Robot Shaping From Polynomial to Linear Time (2011) (18)
Accelerating human-computer collaborative search through learning comparative and predictive user models (2012) (18)
Evolving Robot Morphology Facilitates the Evolution of Neural Modularity and Evolvability (2015) (17)
Evolutionary Developmental Soft Robotics As a Framework to Study Intelligence and Adaptive Behavior in Animals and Plants (2017) (17)
AN EXPLORATION-ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS OF ENGINEERING SYSTEMS USING MINIMAL PHYSICAL TESTING (2004) (16)
Avoiding local optima with user demonstrations and low-level control (2013) (16)
Iterative Product Engineering : Evolutionary Robot Design (2002) (15)
Simulating the evolution of soft and rigid-body robots (2017) (15)
Applications and ethics of computer-designed organisms (2020) (14)
Exploiting multiple classifier types with active learning (2009) (14)
A probabilistic functional crossover operator for genetic programming (2010) (13)
Accelerating Self-Modeling in Cooperative Robot Teams (2009) (13)
Automatic Synthesis of Multiple Internal Models Through Active Exploration (2005) (12)
Self discovery enables robot social cognition: Are you my teacher? (2010) (12)
WebAL Comes of Age: A Review of the First 21 Years of Artificial Life on the Web (2016) (12)
Active Learning with Adaptive Heterogeneous Ensembles (2009) (12)
Crowdsourcing Predictors of Residential Electric Energy Usage (2017) (12)
Reducing Antagonism between Behavioral Diversity and Fitness in Semantic Genetic Programming (2016) (11)
Participation and Contribution in Crowdsourced Surveys (2015) (11)
Inductive machine learning for improved estimation of catchment-scale snow water equivalent (2015) (11)
Evolved Sensor Fusion and Dissociation in an Embodied Agent (2002) (10)
Informative sampling for large unbalanced data sets (2008) (10)
Learning Comparative User Models for Accelerating Human-Computer Collaborative Search (2012) (10)
Using robots to investigate the evolution of adaptive behavior (2015) (10)
Semantic Forward Propagation for Symbolic Regression (2016) (10)
Collective Design of Robot Locomotion (2014) (10)
Action-selection and crossover strategies for self-modeling machines (2007) (9)
Avoiding local optima with interactive evolutionary robotics (2012) (9)
Adaptive Informative Sampling for Active Learning (2010) (9)
From the Cover: Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems (2007) (8)
Epigenetic Operators and the Evolution of Physically Embodied Robots (2017) (8)
A Deterministic and Symbolic Regression Hybrid Applied to Resting-State fMRI Data (2013) (8)
Sim2real gap is non-monotonic with robot complexity for morphology-in-the-loop flapping wing design (2019) (8)
Robots can ground crowd-proposed symbols by forming theories of group mind (2016) (8)
Improving Robot Behavior Optimization by Combining User Preferences (2014) (8)
Exploiting the Relationship Between Structural Modularity and Sparsity for Faster Network Evolution (2015) (8)
Shadow networks: Discovering hidden nodes with models of information flow (2013) (8)
Death and Progress: How Evolvability is Influenced by Intrinsic Mortality (2020) (8)
Morphological Modularity Can Enable the Evolution of Robot Behavior to Scale Linearly with the Number of Environmental Features (2016) (8)
Aurally Informed Performance: Integrating Machine Listening and Auditory Presentation in Robotic Systems, Papers from the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposium, Washington, DC, USA, October 13-15, 2006 (2006) (8)
AI in the 21st Century - With Historical Reflections (2006) (8)
Co-evolutionary variance can guide physical testing in evolutionary system identification (2005) (7)
Probabilistic Robotics. Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox. (2005, MIT Press.) 647 pages (2008) (7)
Physical Scaffolding Accelerates the Evolution of Robot Behavior (2017) (7)
Voxcraft-sim, a GPU-accelerated voxel-based physics engine (2020) (7)
Combining Computational and Social Effort for Collaborative Problem Solving (2015) (7)
Word2vec to behavior: morphology facilitates the grounding of language in machines. (2019) (6)
The effects of morphology and fitness on catastrophic interference (2018) (6)
Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System (1999) (6)
Nonlinear functional mapping of the human brain (2015) (6)
Recombination Hotspots Promote the Evolvability of Modular Systems (2016) (6)
Evolution of functional specialization in a morphologically homogeneous robot (2009) (6)
Exploiting multiple robots to accelerate self-modeling (2007) (5)
How Evolution Shapes the Way Roboticists Think (2011) (5)
Combating catastrophic forgetting with developmental compression (2018) (4)
Evolving morphology automatically reformulates the problem of designing modular control (2018) (4)
Reinventing the Wheel : An Experiment in Evolutionary Geometry (2005) (4)
Morphology dictates learnability in neural controllers (2020) (4)
Modularity and Sparsity: Evolution of Neural Net Controllers in Physically Embodied Robots (2016) (4)
The ‘What’, ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ of Evolutionary Robotics (2011) (4)
Morphology dictates a robot's ability to ground crowd-proposed language (2017) (4)
Reinventing the Wheel : An Experiment in Evolutionary Geometry (2005) (4)
Choice of robot morphology can prohibit modular control and disrupt evolution (2017) (4)
Evolving Monolithic Robot Controllers through Incremental Shaping (2011) (4)
Integrated Design , Deployment and Inference for Robot Ecologies (2004) (4)
Relating Neural Network Performance to Morphological Differences in Embodied Agents (2002) (3)
Intrinsic Mortality Governs Evolvability (2018) (3)
Scale invariant robot behavior with fractals (2021) (3)
Biological Robots: Perspectives on an Emerging Interdisciplinary Field (2022) (3)
Taking a biologically inspired approach to the design of autonomous , adaptive machines (2013) (3)
The impact of jointly evolving robot morphology and control on adaptation rate (2009) (3)
Glaberish: Generalizing the Continuously-Valued Lenia Framework to Arbitrary Life-Like Cellular Automata (2022) (3)
A Functional Crossover Operator for Genetic Programming (2010) (3)
Synthesizing Physically-Realistic Environmental Models from Robot Exploration (2007) (3)
A Genetic Programming Approach to Cost-Sensitive Control in Resource Constrained Sensor Systems (2015) (3)
Crowdseeding: A Novel Approach for Designing Bioinspired Machines (2015) (3)
Evolving Spatially Aggregated Features from Satellite Imagery for Regional Modeling (2016) (3)
What we write about when we write about causality: Features of causal statements across large-scale social discourse (2016) (3)
Co-Evolutionary Methods in System Design and Analysis (2005) (3)
Behavioural Selection Pressure Generates Hierarchical Genetic Regulatory Networks (2002) (2)
Josh Bongard Resilient Machines Through Continuous Self-Modeling (2011) (2)
Selecting continuous life-like cellular automata for halting unpredictability: evolving for abiogenesis (2022) (2)
Publisher Correction: How morphological development can guide evolution (2018) (2)
An Embodied Approach for Evolving Robust Visual Classifiers (2015) (2)
Evolving programmable computational metamaterials (2022) (2)
On the Use of Semantics in Multi-objective Genetic Programming (2022) (1)
What we talk about when we talk about causality : Features of causal statements across large-scale social discourse (2016) (1)
Crowdseeding Robot Design (2015) (1)
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes): Preface (2007) (1)
The Role of Embodiment in Open-Ended Evolution (2018) (1)
Shape-Changing Robots: Shape Changing Robots: Bioinspiration, Simulation, and Physical Realization (Adv. Mater. 19/2021) (2021) (1)
Embodiment can combat catastrophic forgetting (2018) (1)
Evolution of Acoustic Logic Gates in Granular Metamaterials (2022) (1)
A crowdsourcing approach to understand weight and weight loss in men (2018) (1)
Reducing Training Environments in Evolutionary Robotics Through Ecological Modularity (2017) (1)
Not all physics simulators can be wrong in the same way (2012) (1)
Crowd grounding: finding semantic and behavioral alignment through human robot interaction (2020) (1)
A good body is all you need: avoiding catastrophic interference via agent architecture search (2021) (1)
The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (full proceedings pdf) (2020) (1)
Divide and Conquer: A Novel Approach to the Design of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems (1999) (1)
2020 Preface (2020) (1)
Step Size is a Consequential Parameter in Continuous Cellular Automata (2022) (1)
Combined structure and motion extraction from visual data using evolutionary active learning (2009) (1)
The Eye of the Beholder: Subjectivity and the Consequences for Artiicial Life (1)
Reports on the 2006 AAAI Fall Symposia (2007) (1)
Characterizing the Shapes of Collective Attention using Social Media (2014) (1)
There’s Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-Scale Machines (2022) (1)
Neural language representations predict outcomes of scientific research (2018) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 21 (2008) (0)
Embodiment dictates learnability in neural controllers (2019) (0)
Ai Redux Biologically Inspired Computing Body and Brain (2009) (0)
Reviewers of Volume 12 (2006) (0)
Embodied cognition : the other morphology (2008) (0)
Evolving Heterogeneity : Implications for Agent-Based Systems and Collective Problem Solving (2006) (0)
Exploring Uncertainty and Movement in Categorical Perception Using Robots (2016) (0)
Continually Plastic Modeling of Non-Stationary Systems (2016) (0)
Social Contribution in the Design of Adaptive Machines on the Web (2016) (0)
Morphological scaffolding: how evolution and development improve robot behavior generation (2010) (0)
Gene Duplication, Modularity, and the Evolution of Intelligence in Simulated and Real Robots (2018) (0)
Research opportunities (2016) (0)
Embodied Embeddings for Hyperneat (2018) (0)
Rapid Human-Computer Interactive Conceptual Design of Mobile and Manipulative Robot Systems (2015) (0)
Interactive simulated robot construction and controller evolution (2012) (0)
Machine behaviour (2019) (0)
Developmental systems : Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium : Technical Report FS-06-03 (2006) (0)
Acknowledgments to reviewers (2000) (0)
Gaining environments through shape change (2020) (0)
Embodiment Effects in Evolutionary Robotics (2016) (0)
Regression based modeling of vegetation and climate variables for the Amazon rainforests (2015) (0)
Understanding climate-vegetation interactions in global rainforests through a GP model-tree analysis (2017) (0)
A soft robot that adapts to environments through shape change (2020) (0)
Evolving Complete Agentsusing Arti ial (2003) (0)
Combining Passive Microwave and Optical Data to Estimate Snow Water Equivalent in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush (2015) (0)
Sim 2 real of soft-bodied , shape-changing robots (2019) (0)
From bioinspired to biological robots, and back again. (2022) (0)
Morphological Plasticity for the Design, Control, and Deployment of Complex Engineering Systems (2019) (0)
How morphological development can guide evolution (2018) (0)
Publisher Correction: How morphological development can guide evolution (2018) (0)
IN11B-1621: Quantifying How Climate Affects Vegetation in the Amazon Rainforest (2016) (0)
Evolving Soft Robots (2016) (0)
Life Oo Screen: Situated Robotics and the Strong Claim of Artiicial Life (1999) (0)
Final Report : Rapid Human-Computer Interactive Conceptual Design of Mobile and Manipulative Robot Systems Report Title (2015) (0)
Empowered neural cellular automata (2022) (0)
A process for the recovery of defective laminated solar modules (1995) (0)
A Framework for Search and Application Agnostic Interactive Optimization (2020) (0)
Reviewers for volume 17 (1993) (0)
Shape Matching: Evolving Fiber Constraints on a Pneumatic Bilayer (2021) (0)
Title: “Evolving soft locomotion in aquatic and terrestrial environments: effects of material properties and environmental transitions” Running title (~45 chars): Evolving soft locomotion Authors names and affiliations: (2017) (0)
An Adaptive Computational Modeling Framework with an application to real-time fMRI study (2013) (0)
From rigid to soft to biological robots (2023) (0)
Reviewers of Volume 7 (1980) (0)
Modeling hierarchy using symbolic regression (2013) (0)
Collective Defection (2013) (0)
Morphological communication for swarms (2020) (0)
Reducing Collective Behavioural Complexity through Heterogeneity (2019) (0)
Book review (1998) (0)
Modeling self and others (2018) (0)
Understanding Climate-Vegetation Interactions in Global Rainforests Through a GP-Tree Analysis (2018) (0)
Automatic identification of hierarchy in multivariate data (2013) (0)
Embodied in 37. Embodied Intelligence (2015) (0)
Editorial: Introduction to the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life Special Issue (2022) (0)
Sensorimotor Behavioral Testing in a Mouse Model of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (2014) (0)
Ecological modularity as a means to reduce necessary training environments in evolutionary robotics (2017) (0)
How robots can offer clues about evolution (2012) (0)

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