| 2018 | AAAI | Extraction of Interaction Events for Learning Reasonable Behavior in an Open-World Survival Game. | Emmett Tomai |
| 2016 | ICIDS | Towards a Model-Learning Approach to Interactive Narrative Intelligence for Opportunistic Storytelling. | Emmett Tomai, Luis Lopez |
| 2015 | FIE | An evaluation of how changes to the introductory computer science course sequence impact student success. | Christine F. Reilly, Emmett Tomai, Laura M. Grabowski |
| 2015 | SIGCSE | A Gateway Game to Make Computational Problem Solving Accessible and Engaging (Abstract Only). | Emmett Tomai, Roberto Flores, Casey Richardson, Jose Rojas, Julio Oliva, German Zuniga |
| 2014 | FDG | Adapting in-game agent behavior by observation of players using learning behavior trees. | Emmett Tomai, Roberto Flores |
| 2014 | FIE | An examination of mathematics preparation for and progress through three introductory computer science courses. | Christine F. Reilly, Emmett Tomai |
| 2014 | SIGCSE | The impact of math preparedness on introductory programming (CS1) success (abstract only). | Emmett Tomai, Christine F. Reilly |
| 2013 | NAACL | Identification of Temporal Event Relationships in Biographical Accounts. | Lucian Silcox, Emmett Tomai |
| 2012 | FDG | Adaptive quests for dynamic world change in MMORPGs. | Emmett Tomai, Rosendo Salazar, Dave Salinas |
| 2009 | FlAIRS | EA NLU: Practical Language Understanding for Cognitive Modeling. | Emmett Tomai, Kenneth D. Forbus |
| 2008 | AAAI | An Integrated Reasoning Approach to Moral Decision-Making. | Morteza Dehghani, Emmett Tomai, Kenneth D. Forbus, Matthew Klenk |
| 2005 | AAAI | Analogical Learning of Visual/Conceptual Relationships in Sketches. | Kenneth D. Forbus, Jeffrey M. Usher, Emmett Tomai |
| 2005 | AAAI | Solving Everyday Physical Reasoning Problems by Analogy Using Sketches. | Matthew Klenk, Kenneth D. Forbus, Emmett Tomai, Hyeonkyeong Kim, Brian Kyckelhahn |