SIGEVO Portal and Wiki

Welcome to the website of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.

Latest News

ACM SIGEVOlution Newsletter Vol. 19 Issue 1 now available

The 1st (Spring) 2026 issue of the ACM SIGEVOlution newsletter is now available. In this issue you will find:

The 2025 ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Awardees - Prof. Mengjie Zhang and Prof. Frank Neumann
PhD Dissertation Report - Improving Optimization Algorithms with Machine Learning and Visualization
The 2025 ACM GECCO Impact Award - General Program Synthesis Benchmark Suite

SIGEVO Dissertation Award 2026 - Deadline extension

The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 20 (anywhere on Earth).

The SIGEVO Best Dissertation award recognizes excellent thesis research by doctoral candidates in the field of evolutionary computing. Dissertations will be reviewed for technical depth and significance of the research contribution, potential impact on the field of evolutionary computing and beyond, and quality of presentation.

ACM SIGEVO 2023 Outstanding Contributions, Dissertation and Impact Awards

ACM SIGEVO announces its 2023 Outstanding Contributions, Dissertation and Impact Awards. Details can be found here:
ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award
SIGEVO Dissertation Award
SIGEVO Impact Award

Congratulations to all award winners.

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Join SIGEVO

You are invited to join SIGEVO, a thriving ACM SIG with over 600 members, and enjoy its Member Benefits:

Discounted registration fee for SIGEVO’s annual GECCO Conference
SIGEVO’s quarterly on-line newsletter
Access to content in the ACM Digital Library provided by SIGEVO, including proceedings, workshop proceedings, tutorial notes, and late-breaking papers from the annual GECCO conference
Free subscription to the SIGEVO members email list, with calls, advance and final event programs, and news of interest to the community posted regularly.

But SIGEVO is an active SIG, also providing many Community Benefits

Sponsorship of GECCO conferences
Sponsorship of the FOGA workshops
Sponsorship of SIGEVO GECCO Impact Paper Award
Sponsorship of Student Travel Awards for participation in GECCO
Sponsorship of Student Travel Awards for participation in FOGA
Sponsorship of Best Paper Awards in GECCO conference tracks
Sponsorship of Graduate Student Workshop and its awards
Sponsorship of competitions: The annual Humies Awards for the best Human Competitive Solution plus a varying number of GECCO Competition awards
Contribution of all GECCO print content to the ACM Digital Library

If you have suggestions for improvements to our website, or are willing to directly help, please let us know! Our officers' contact details are available here.

Prof.dr. Peter A.N. Bosman
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam
Chair, ACM-SIGEVO