| 2011 | PLDI | An SSA-based algorithm for optimal speculative code motion under an execution profile. | Hucheng Zhou, Wenguang Chen, Fred C. Chow |
| 2002 | CASES | A near-optimal instruction scheduler for a tightly constrained, variable instruction set embedded processor. | Jack Liu, Fred C. Chow |
| 1998 | CC | Strength Reduction via SSAPRE. | Robert Kennedy, Fred C. Chow, Peter Dahl, Shin-Ming Liu, Raymond Lo, Mark Streich |
| 1998 | PLDI | Register Promotion by Partial Redundancy Elimination of Loads and Stores. | Fred C. Chow, Robert Kennedy, Shin-Ming Liu, Raymond Lo, Peng Tu |
| 1997 | PLDI | A New Algorithm for Partial Redundancy Elimination based on SSA Form. | Fred C. Chow, Sun Chan, Robert Kennedy, Shin-Ming Liu, Raymond Lo, Peng Tu |
| 1996 | CC | Effective Representation of Aliases and Indirect Memory Operations in SSA Form. | Fred C. Chow, Sun Chan, Shin-Ming Liu, Raymond Lo, Mark Streich |
| 1994 | MICRO | Improving resource utilization of the MIPS R8000 via post-scheduling global instruction distribution. | Raymond Lo, Sun Chan, Fred C. Chow, Shin-Ming Liu |
| 1988 | PLDI | Minimizing Register Usage Penalty at Procedure Calls. | Fred C. Chow |
| 1987 | ASPLOS | How Many Addressing Modes are Enough? | Fred C. Chow, Steven Correll, Mark I. Himelstein, Earl Killian, Larry Weber |
| 1984 | PLDI | Register allocation by priority-based coloring (with retrospective) | Fred C. Chow, John L. Hennessy |