| 2024 | SIGCSE | Autograding Java Assignments in Gradescope with Jacquard. | Ellen Spertus, Priscilla Jimnez |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (COVID-19 edition). | Dan Garcia, Jim Huggins, Christine Alvarado, Paul Gestwicki, Andy Gunawardena, Victoria Hong, Ellen Spertus |
| 2021 | WCAE | Interactive Asynchronous Online Computer Architecture Education. | Ellen Spertus |
| 2021 | WCAE | Mastery-Based Learning in Undergraduate Computer Architecture. | Ellen Spertus, Zachary Kurmas |
| 2010 | SIGCSE | Novel approaches to CS 0 with app inventor for android. | Ellen Spertus, Mark L. Chang, Paul Gestwicki, David Wolber |
| 2005 | KDD | Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network. | Ellen Spertus, Mehran Sahami, Orkut Buyukkokten |
| 1998 | CIKM | Just-In-Time Databases and the World-Wide Web. | Ellen Spertus, Lynn Andrea Stein |
| 1998 | ISCA | Retrospective: the J-machine. | William J. Dally, Andrew A. Chien, Stuart Fiske, Waldemar Horwat, Richard A. Lethin, Michael D. Noakes, Peter R. Nuth, Ellen Spertus, Deborah A. Wallach, D. Scott Wills, Andrew Chang, John S. Keen |
| 1997 | AAAI | Smokey: Automatic Recognition of Hostile Messages. | Ellen Spertus |
| 1995 | PPoPP | Evaluating the Locality Benefits of Active Messages. | Ellen Spertus, William J. Dally |
| 1993 | ISCA | Evaluation of Mechanisms for Fine-Grained Parallel Programs in the J-Machine and the CM-5. | Ellen Spertus, Seth Copen Goldstein, Klaus E. Schauser, Thorsten von Eicken, David E. Culler, William J. Dally |
| 1993 | SIGCSE | Creating an environment for the success of women students in undergraduate, co-ed computer science programs (abstract). | Susan Marie Harrington, Charles Kelemen, Rachelle S. Heller, Sandoval Melim, Ellen Spertus |
| 1991 | ICPP | Experiences Implementing Dataflow on a General-Purpose Parallel Computer. | Ellen Spertus, William J. Dally |