| 2025 | CHI | Generative AI in Knowledge Work: Design Implications for Data Navigation and Decision-Making. | Bhada Yun, Dana Feng, Ace S. Chen, Afshin Nikzad, Niloufar Salehi |
| 2023 | CHI | Expressiveness, Cost, and Collectivism: How the Design of Preference Languages Shapes Participation in Algorithmic Decision-Making. | Samantha Robertson, Tonya Nguyen, Cathy Hu, Catherine Albiston, Afshin Nikzad, Niloufar Salehi |
| 2016 | ICALP | Reservation Exchange Markets for Internet Advertising. | Gagan Goel, Stefano Leonardi, Vahab S. Mirrokni, Afshin Nikzad, Renato Paes Leme |
| 2015 | ICALP | Approximation Algorithms for Computing Maximin Share Allocations. | Georgios Amanatidis, Evangelos Markakis, Afshin Nikzad, Amin Saberi |
| 2014 | FOCS | Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing: An Optimal 1-1/e Competitive Budget-Feasible Mechanism for Large Markets. | Nima Anari, Gagan Goel, Afshin Nikzad |
| 2014 | HCOMP | Mechanism Design for Crowdsourcing Markets with Heterogeneous Tasks. | Gagan Goel, Afshin Nikzad, Adish Singla |
| 2014 | ICALP | Sending Secrets Swiftly: Approximation Algorithms for Generalized Multicast Problems. | Afshin Nikzad, R. Ravi |
| 2014 | WWW | Allocating tasks to workers with matching constraints: truthful mechanisms for crowdsourcing markets. | Gagan Goel, Afshin Nikzad, Adish Singla |