• Winner, NORA Award for Outstanding Publication of the Decade 2012 – 2022 – For the paper Ellefsen, Kai Olav, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, and Jeff Clune. “Neural modularity helps organisms evolve to learn new skills without forgetting old skills.” PLoS computational biology 11.4 (2015)
  • Finalist, The ANP Award for Technological Innovation (2017) – For the FlatFish project team. ANP is the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels.
  • Winner, Best Paper Award, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (2016) – Awarded for the paper “Planning Inspection Paths through Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization”.
  • Winner, Subsea Forum Rio Projetct Award (2016) – Awarded to our team for the FlatFish project.
  • Nominee, Best Student Video, AAAI-16 AI Video Competition (2016) – For this video summarizing a recent paper.
  • Awarded CNPq Young Talent Fellowship (2015) – The fellowship funding my post-doctoral research on the FlatFish project.
  • Winner, Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Society Best Master Thesis Award (2010)