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Charles Ofria publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles Ofria sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 169 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Charles Ofria D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Charles Ofria sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Charles Ofria is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Computer Science, each comprising 39 publications. Notable subfields of study within their work include Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics particularly center on Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, as well as Reinforcement Learning in Robotics.

Ofria has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities, 2020, Artificial Life
  • Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Evolution in Fluctuating Environments, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Digital Evolution for Ecology Research: A Review, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Informed Down-Sampled Lexicase Selection: Identifying Productive Training Cases for Efficient Problem Solving, 2024, Evolutionary Computation
  • Interpreting the Tape of Life: Ancestry-Based Analyses Provide Insights and Intuition about Evolutionary Dynamics, 2020, Artificial Life

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, and Artificial Life.

Their collaborative work often includes coauthors like Alexander Lalejini, Matthew Andres Moreno, Emily Dolson, Jose Guadalupe Hernandez, and Richard E. Lenski.

Among their book publications is the work titled Evolution in Action: Past, Present and Future, published by Springer Nature in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The evolutionary origin of complex features

    Richard E. Lenski;Charles Ofria;Robert T. Pennock;Christoph Adami

  • Evolution of biological complexity

    Christoph Adami;Charles Ofria;Travis C. Collier

  • Evolution of digital organisms at high mutation rates leads to survival of the flattest

    Claus O. Wilke;Jia Lan Wang;Charles Ofria;Richard E. Lenski

  • Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

    J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

  • Avida: a software platform for research in computational evolutionary biology

    Charles Ofria;Claus O. Wilke

  • Genome complexity, robustness and genetic interactions in digital organisms

    Richard E. Lenski;Charles Ofria;Travis C. Collier;Christoph Adami

  • The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

    Joel Lehman;Jeff Clune;Dusan Misevic;Christoph Adami

  • Balancing robustness and evolvability.

    Richard E Lenski;Jeffrey E Barrick;Charles Ofria

  • Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the HyperNEAT generative encoding

    Jeff Clune;Benjamin E. Beckmann;Charles Ofria;Robert T. Pennock

  • Avida : A Software Platform for Research in Computational Evolutionary Biology

    Ofria C;Bryson D;Wilke C

  • The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities

    Joel Lehman;Jeff Clune;Dusan Misevic;Christoph Adami

  • On the Performance of Indirect Encoding Across the Continuum of Regularity

    J. Clune;K. O. Stanley;R. T. Pennock;C. Ofria

  • Adaptive radiation from resource competition in digital organisms.

    Stephanie S. Chow;Claus O. Wilke;Claus O. Wilke;Charles Ofria;Richard E. Lenski

  • Natural selection fails to optimize mutation rates for long-term adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes

    Jeff Clune;Dusan Misevic;Charles Ofria;Richard E. Lenski

  • Sexual reproduction reshapes the genetic architecture of digital organisms

    Dusan Misevic;Charles Ofria;Richard E Lenski

  • Open-ended evolution: Perspectives from the oee workshop in york

    Tim Taylor;Mark Bedau;Alastair Channon;David Ackley

  • EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

    J. Arjan G. M. De Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Lauren Ancel Meyers;Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

  • Distributed Cooperative Caching in Social Wireless Networks

    Mahmoud Taghizadeh;Kristopher Micinski;Subir Biswas;Charles Ofria

  • Evolving Digital Ecological Networks

    Miguel A. Fortuna;Miguel A. Fortuna;Luis Zaman;Aaron P. Wagner;Charles Ofria

  • Selective pressures on genomes in molecular evolution

    Charles Ofria;Christoph Adami;Travis C. Collier

  • Investigating whether hyperNEAT produces modular neural networks

    Jeff Clune;Benjamin E. Beckmann;Philip K. McKinley;Charles Ofria

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard E. Lenski
Richard E. Lenski Michigan State University
Jeff Clune
Jeff Clune University of British Columbia
Philip K. McKinley
Philip K. McKinley Michigan State University
Claus O. Wilke
Claus O. Wilke The University of Texas at Austin
Andreas Wagner
Andreas Wagner University of Zurich
Betty H. C. Cheng
Betty H. C. Cheng Michigan State University
Santiago F. Elena
Santiago F. Elena Santa Fe Institute
Kenneth O. Stanley
Kenneth O. Stanley University of Central Florida
Wolfgang Banzhaf
Wolfgang Banzhaf Michigan State University
Thomas M. Schmidt
Thomas M. Schmidt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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