His primary research focuses on the use of evolutionary algorithms to explore the effects of varying parameters in multi-agent simulations, and is the author of the open-source BehaviorSearch software for performing this task. He has been involved in a variety of agent-based modeling projects in application areas such as urban development (modeling land usage) and linguistics (language cascades in social networks), and his research has fused evolutionary algorithms and agent-based systems in a variety of ways. Forrest Stonedahl's other scholarly interests include studying dynamic processes on networks, emergence in complex adaptive systems, and computer science education.