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 Risto Miikkulainen sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 504 publications — 93rd percentile
93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.
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 Risto Miikkulainen sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 71 D-Index — 88th percentile
88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.
Risto Miikkulainen is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. The primary field of study for their research is Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence alongside related subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.
Their work spans a range of topics within AI and machine learning, including Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications, Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research, Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Machine Learning and Data Classification, Neural Networks and Applications, Artificial Intelligence in Games, and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning.
Among recent academic papers authored or co-authored by Risto Miikkulainen are:
Frequent co-authors collaborating with Risto Miikkulainen include Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad, Elliot Meyerson, Olivier Francon, and Xin Qiu.
Their research has been published extensively in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, the Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Artificial Life.
Awards recognizing their contributions include the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2020 and an IEEE Fellow distinction awarded in 2016 for contributions to neural and evolutionary computation.
Kenneth O. Stanley;Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen;Jason Zhi Liang;Elliot Meyerson;Aditya Rawal
Jake Ryan;Meng-Jang Lin;Risto Miikkulainen
Kenneth O. Stanley;Kenneth O. Stanley;Jeff Clune;Jeff Clune;Joel Lehman;Risto Miikkulainen
Kenneth O. Stanley;Risto Miikkulainen
Kenneth O. Stanley;Risto Miikkulainen
K.O. Stanley;B.D. Bryant;R. Miikkulainen
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David E. Moriarty;Risto Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen;James A. Bednar;Yoonsuck Choe;Joseph Sirosh
Kenneth O. Stanley;Risto Miikkulainen
Faustino Gomez;Jürgen Schmidhuber;Jürgen Schmidhuber;Risto Miikkulainen
Faustino J. Gomez;Risto Miikkulainen
Risto P Miikkulainen;Michael G. Dyer
Joel Lehman;Jeff Clune;Dusan Misevic;Christoph Adami
Kenneth Owen Stanley;Risto P. Miikkulainen
Matthew Hausknecht;Joel Lehman;Risto Miikkulainen;Peter Stone
Faustino John Gomez;Risto Miikkulainen
J. Blackmore;R. Miikkulainen
Risto Miikkulainen;Michael D. Dahlin;Randolph P. Lipscher
Joel Lehman;Jeff Clune;Dusan Misevic;Christoph Adami
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