| 2014 | FCCM | Floorplanning for Partially-Reconfigurable FPGA Systems via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming. | Marco Rabozzi, John Lillis, Marco D. Santambrogio |
| 2007 | ASPDAC | Optimum Prefix Adders in a Comprehensive Area, Timing and Power Design Space. | Jianhua Liu, Yi Zhu, Haikun Zhu, Chung-Kuan Cheng, John Lillis |
| 2006 | ICCAD | Trunk decomposition based global routing optimization. | Devang Jariwala, John Lillis |
| 2005 | ASPDAC | An LP-based methodology for improved timing-driven placement. | Qingzhou (Ben) Wang, John Lillis, Shubhankar Sanyal |
| 2004 | DAC | An approach to placement-coupled logic replication. | Milos Hrkic, John Lillis, Giancarlo Beraudo |
| 2004 | ICCAD | On interactions between routing and detailed placement. | Devang Jariwala, John Lillis |
| 2003 | DAC | Timing optimization of FPGA placements by logic replication. | Giancarlo Beraudo, John Lillis |
| 2002 | DAC | S-Tree: a technique for buffered routing tree synthesis. | Milos Hrkic, John Lillis |
| 2000 | DAC | A fast algorithm for context-aware buffer insertion. | Ashok Jagannathan, Sung-Woo Hur, John Lillis |
| 2000 | ICCAD | MONGREL: Hybrid Techniques for Standard Cell Placement. | Sung-Woo Hur, John Lillis |
| 1999 | DAC | Relaxation and Clustering in a Local Search Framework: Application to Linear Placement. | Sung-Woo Hur, John Lillis |
| 1998 | DAC | Table-Lookup Methods for Improved Performance-Driven Routing. | John Lillis, Premal Buch |
| 1997 | ASPDAC | A new layout-driven timing model for incremental layout optimization. | Fang-Jou Liu, John Lillis, Chung-Kuan Cheng |
| 1997 | DAC | Timing Optimization for Multi-Source Nets: Characterization and Optimal Repeater Insertion. | John Lillis, Chung-Kuan Cheng |
| 1996 | DAC | New Spectral Linear Placement and Clustering Approach. | Jianmin Li, John Lillis, Lung-Tien Liu, Chung-Kuan Cheng |
| 1996 | DAC | New Performance Driven Routing Techniques With Explicit Area/Delay Tradeoff and Simultaneous Wire Sizing. | John Lillis, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Ting-Ting Y. Lin, Chin-Yen Ho |
| 1995 | ICCAD | Linear decomposition algorithm for VLSI design applications. | Jianmin Li, John Lillis, Chung-Kuan Cheng |
| 1995 | ICCAD | Optimal wire sizing and buffer insertion for low power and a generalized delay model. | John Lillis, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Ting-Ting Y. Lin |