Publications

Publication info is also available on Google Scholar and on my CV (pdf)!

Peer-reviewed journal articles

• Alexander Lalejini, Austin J. Ferguson, Nkrumah A. Grant, and Charles Ofria(2021). Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity Stabilizes Evolution in Fluctuating Environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 9. (pdf) (2022 ISAL Award for Outstanding Student Publication)

Peer-reviewed conference papers

• Nikolai Escondo and Austin J. Ferguson (2026). Summarizing Populations: Characterizing the Effects of Sampling in Computational Evolutionary Replay Experiments. Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Artificial Life. (pdf)
• Marcos Sanson and Austin J. Ferguson (2025). A computational baseline for changes in long-term evolvability. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Artificial Life. (pdf)
• Grant Gordon, Austin J. Ferguson, Emily Dolson, and Alexander Lalejini (2025). Environmental connectivity influences long-term evolutionary outcomes. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Artificial Life. (pdf)
• Austin J. Ferguson, Clifford Bohm, and Charles Ofria (2024). Predicting the Unpredictable: Using replay experiments to disentangle how evolutionary outcomes are altered by adaptive momentum. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Artificial Life. (pdf)
• Austin J. Ferguson and Charles Ofria (2023). Potentiating Mutations Facilitate the Evolution of Associative Learning in Digital Organisms. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Artificial Life. (pdf)
• Katherine G. Skocelas, Austin J. Ferguson, Clifford Bohm, Katherine Perry, Rosemary Adaji, Charles Ofria (2022). The Evolution of Genetic Robustness for Cellular Cooperation in Early Multicellular Organisms. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Artificial Life, 345-353. (pdf)
• Alexander Lalejini, Emily Dolson, Clifford Bohm, Austin J. Ferguson, David P. Parsons, Penelope Faulkner Rainford, Paul Richmond, and Charles Ofria (2019). Data Standards for Artificial Life Software. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Artificial Life, 507-514. (pdf)

Peer-reviewed extended abstracts

• Alexander Lalejini, Austin J. Ferguson, Nkrumah A. Grant, and Charles Ofria (2022). The evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity stabilizes populations against environmental fluctuations. (Article summary) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Artificial Life, 143-145. (pdf)
• Acacia Ackles, Austin J. Ferguson, Connor Grady, and Charles Ofria (2020). Rank epistasis: A new model for analyzing epistatic interactions in the absence of quantifiable fitness interactions. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Artificial Life, 160-162. (pdf)

Book chapters

• Austin J. Ferguson, Jose G. Hernandez, Daniel Junghans, Alexander Lalejini, Emily Dolson, Charles Ofria (2020) Characterizing the Effects of Random Subsampling on Lexicase Selection. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XVII. Springer. (pdf)