| 2013 | PLDI | A general constraint-centric scheduling framework for spatial architectures. | Tony Nowatzki, Michael Sartin-Tarm, Lorenzo De Carli, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Cristian Estan, Behnam Robatmili |
| 2010 | SIGMETRICS | Leveraging parallelism for multi-dimensional packetclassification on software routers. | Yadi Ma, Suman Banerjee, Shan Lu, Cristian Estan |
| 2009 | ISPASS | Evaluating GPUs for network packet signature matching. | Randy Smith, Neelam Goyal, Justin Ormont, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Cristian Estan |
| 2009 | RAID | Multi-byte Regular Expression Matching with Speculation. | Daniel Luchaup, Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha |
| 2009 | SIGCOMM | PLUG: flexible lookup modules for rapid deployment of new protocols in high-speed routers. | Lorenzo De Carli, Yi Pan, Amit Kumar, Cristian Estan, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam |
| 2008 | ICISS | Fast Signature Matching Using Extended Finite Automaton (XFA). | Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha, Ida Sri Rejeki Siahaan |
| 2008 | INFOCOM | Power Awareness in Network Design and Routing. | Joseph Chabarek, Joel Sommers, Paul Barford, Cristian Estan, David Tsiang, Stephen J. Wright |
| 2008 | SIGCOMM | Deflating the big bang: fast and scalable deep packet inspection with extended finite automata. | Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha, Shijin Kong |
| 2008 | SP | XFA: Faster Signature Matching with Extended Automata. | Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha |
| 2008 | SecureComm | Efficient signature matching with multiple alphabet compression tables. | Shijin Kong, Randy Smith, Cristian Estan |
| 2006 | ACSAC | Backtracking Algorithmic Complexity Attacks against a NIDS. | Randy Smith, Cristian Estan, Somesh Jha |
| 2006 | HOTNETS | Achieving Good End-to-End Service Using Bill-Pay. | Cristian Estan, Aditya Akella, Suman Banerjee |
| 2006 | ICDE | End-biased Samples for Join Cardinality Estimation. | Cristian Estan, Jeffrey F. Naughton |
| 2006 | SecureComm | On Filtering of DDoS Attacks Based on Source Address Prefixes. | Gary Pack, Jaeyoung Yoon, Eli Collins, Cristian Estan |
| 2005 | IMC | The Power of Slicing in Internet Flow Measurement. | Ramana Rao Kompella, Cristian Estan |
| 2005 | SIGMETRICS | A robust system for accurate real-time summaries of internet traffic. | Ken Keys, David Moore, Cristian Estan |
| 2004 | OSDI | Automated Worm Fingerprinting. | Sumeet Singh, Cristian Estan, George Varghese, Stefan Savage |
| 2004 | SIGCOMM | Building a better NetFlow. | Cristian Estan, Ken Keys, David Moore, George Varghese |
| 2003 | IMC | Bitmap algorithms for counting active flows on high speed links. | Cristian Estan, George Varghese, Mike Fisk |
| 2003 | SIGCOMM | Automatically inferring patterns of resource consumption in network traffic. | Cristian Estan, Stefan Savage, George Varghese |
| 2002 | IMC | Automated measurement of high volume traffic clusters. | Cristian Estan, Stefan Savage, George Varghese |
| 2002 | SIGCOMM | New directions in traffic measurement and accounting. | Cristian Estan, George Varghese |