| 2012 | CIKM | Domain dependent query reformulation for web search. | Van Dang, Giridhar Kumaran, Adam D. Troy |
| 2012 | ECIR | Interactive Search Support for Difficult Web Queries. | Abdigani Diriye, Giridhar Kumaran, Jeff Huang |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Exploring reductions for long web queries. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho |
| 2010 | SIGIR | Predicting query performance on the web. | Niranjan Balasubramanian, Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho |
| 2009 | SIGIR | Reducing long queries using query quality predictors. | Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor R. Carvalho |
| 2008 | SIGIR | Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2007 | CIKM | Selective user interaction. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2007 | NAACL | A Case For Shorter Queries, and Helping Users Create Them. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2006 | SIGIR | Simple questions to improve pseudo-relevance feedback results. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2005 | CIKM | Biasing web search results for topic familiarity. | Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani |
| 2005 | NAACL | Using Names and Topics for New Event Detection. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2004 | SIGIR | Text classification and named entities for new event detection. | Giridhar Kumaran, James Allan |
| 2003 | SIGIR | Stemming in the language modeling framework. | James Allan, Giridhar Kumaran |
| 2001 | CEC | Using evolutionary computation to solve the economic load dispatch problem. | Giridhar Kumaran, V. S. R. K. Mouly |