Risto Miikkulainen

15.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
203 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Risto Miikkulainen is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Risto Miikkulainen has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Risto Miikkulainen's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (88 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (87 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (47 papers). Risto Miikkulainen is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (88 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (87 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Games (47 papers). Risto Miikkulainen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Risto Miikkulainen's co-authors include Kenneth O. Stanley, David E. Moriarty, Faustino Gomez, Joel Lehman, Bobby D. Bryant, Jeff Clune, Nate Kohl, Jacob Schrum, Peter Stone and Jürgen Schmidhuber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Neuron and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Risto Miikkulainen

199 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Evolving Neural Networks ... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2018 500 1000 1.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Risto Miikkulainen United States 39 5.5k 829 739 543 540 203 7.3k
Kenneth O. Stanley United States 41 6.5k 1.2× 1.4k 1.7× 546 0.7× 616 1.1× 743 1.4× 138 8.6k
Jordan Pollack United States 42 4.1k 0.8× 442 0.5× 569 0.8× 300 0.6× 718 1.3× 196 6.8k
Hussein A. Abbass Australia 39 3.1k 0.6× 609 0.7× 523 0.7× 416 0.8× 1.6k 2.9× 297 6.4k
Kenneth De Jong United States 38 4.1k 0.7× 367 0.4× 269 0.4× 290 0.5× 1.4k 2.6× 190 6.7k
Stefano Nolfi Italy 35 2.7k 0.5× 546 0.7× 823 1.1× 221 0.4× 289 0.5× 151 5.0k
Joëlle Pineau Canada 39 4.6k 0.8× 1.7k 2.1× 425 0.6× 720 1.3× 470 0.9× 163 8.2k
Suresh Sundaram Singapore 41 2.9k 0.5× 1.8k 2.2× 739 1.0× 816 1.5× 488 0.9× 307 6.4k
Tong Zhang China 40 4.0k 0.7× 2.5k 3.0× 708 1.0× 408 0.8× 216 0.4× 213 7.9k
Christopher J. Watkins United Kingdom 10 4.2k 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 538 0.7× 2.0k 3.7× 989 1.8× 14 9.8k
Josh Bongard United States 29 1.8k 0.3× 302 0.4× 732 1.0× 191 0.4× 287 0.5× 135 4.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Risto Miikkulainen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Risto Miikkulainen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Risto Miikkulainen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Risto Miikkulainen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Risto Miikkulainen. Risto Miikkulainen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Miikkulainen, Risto. (2025). Neuroevolution insights into biological neural computation. Science. 387(6735). eadp7478–eadp7478. 1 indexed citations
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Peñaloza, Claudia, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Predictions of Recovery in Bilingual Poststroke Aphasia: Aligning Insights With Clinical Evidence. Stroke. 56(2). 494–504. 4 indexed citations
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Meyerson, Elliot & Risto Miikkulainen. (2021). The Traveling Observer Model: Multi-task Learning Through Spatial Variable Embeddings. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Miikkulainen, Risto, et al.. (2020). From Prediction to Prescription: AI-Based Optimization of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for the COVID-19 Pandemic.. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Meyerson, Elliot & Risto Miikkulainen. (2018). Pseudo-task Augmentation: From Deep Multitask Learning to Intratask Sharing---and Back. International Conference on Machine Learning. 3508–3517. 5 indexed citations
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Miikkulainen, Risto, et al.. (2016). Object-Model Transfer in the General Video Game Domain. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 12(1). 136–142. 3 indexed citations
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Kohl, Nate & Risto Miikkulainen. (2009). Evolving neural networks for strategic decision-making problems.
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Schrum, Jacob & Risto Miikkulainen. (2008). Constructing Complex NPC Behavior via Multi-Objective Neuroevolution. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 4(1). 108–113. 18 indexed citations
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Bryant, Bobby D. & Risto Miikkulainen. (2007). Acquiring visibly intelligent behavior with example-guided neuroevolution. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 801–808. 14 indexed citations
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Stanley, Kenneth O., et al.. (2006). Incorporating Advice into Neuroevolution of Adaptive Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 2(1). 98–104. 2 indexed citations
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Stanley, Kenneth O., et al.. (2006). Real-time interactive learning in the NERO video game. Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research. 1953–1954. 1 indexed citations
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Stanley, Kenneth O., et al.. (2005). Retaining Learned Behavior During Real-Time Neuroevolution. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 1(1). 39–44. 9 indexed citations
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Stanley, Kenneth O., et al.. (2005). Real-Time Learning in the NERO Video Game. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 1(1). 159–160. 15 indexed citations
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Stanley, Kenneth O. & Risto Miikkulainen. (2002). Continual Coevolution Through Complexification. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 113–120. 21 indexed citations
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Miikkulainen, Risto, et al.. (2002). Neuro-evolution and natural deduction. 64–69. 4 indexed citations
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Polani, Daniel & Risto Miikkulainen. (2000). Eugenic neuro-evolution for reinforcement learning. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1041–1046. 9 indexed citations
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Miikkulainen, Risto, et al.. (1994). Parsing embedded clauses with distributed neural networks. University of Twente Research Information. 858–864. 1 indexed citations
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Miikkulainen, Risto, et al.. (1994). SARDNET: A Self-Organizing Feature Map for Sequences. Neural Information Processing Systems. 7. 577–584. 59 indexed citations

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