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.
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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.)
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.