Publications
 
Vinod K. Valsalam and Risto Miikkulainen, "Evolving Symmetric and Modular Neural Network Controllers for Multilegged Robots," In Exploring New Horizons in Evolutionary Design of Robots: Workshop at the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009. pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam and Risto Miikkulainen, "Evolving Symmetric and Modular Neural Networks for Distributed Control," In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), pages 731--738, 2009. (Nominated for Best Paper Award in the Generative and Developmental Systems track.) pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam and Risto Miikkulainen, "Modular Neuroevolution for Multilegged Locomotion," In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), pages 265--272, 2008. (Winner of the Best Paper Award in the Artificial Life, Evolutionary Robotics, Adaptive Behavior, and Evolvable Hardware track.) pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen, "Developing Complex Systems using Evolved Pattern Generators," IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 11(2): 181-198, 2007. pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen, "Establishing an Appropriate Learning Bias Through Development," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL5), 2006. pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam, James A. Bednar, and Risto Miikkulainen, "Constructing Good Learners using Evolved Pattern Generators," In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), pages 11--18, 2005. (Winner of the Best Paper Award in the A-Life, Evolutionary Robotics and Adaptive Behavior track.) pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam, and Anthony Skjellum, "A framework for high-performance matrix multiplication based on hierarchical abstractions, algorithms and optimized low-level kernels," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 14(10): 805-839, 2002. pdf

Vinod K. Valsalam, and Donna Reese, "Tools for Improving the Out-of-core Performance of Data and Computation Intensive Applications," In Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS'99), 1999.