| 2018 | ICCS | Efficient Characterization of Hidden Processor Memory Hierarchies. | Keith D. Cooper, Xiaoran Xu |
| 2009 | CCGRID | Hybrid Re-scheduling Mechanisms for Workflow Applications on Multi-cluster Grid. | Yang Zhang, Charles Koelbel, Keith D. Cooper |
| 2009 | CCGRID | Combined Fault Tolerance and Scheduling Techniques for Workflow Applications on Computational Grids. | Yang Zhang, Anirban Mandal, Charles Koelbel, Keith D. Cooper |
| 2009 | CLUSTER | Batch queue resource scheduling for workflow applications. | Yang Zhang, Charles Koelbel, Keith D. Cooper |
| 2008 | CC | An Adaptive Strategy for Inline Substitution. | Keith D. Cooper, Timothy J. Harvey, Todd Waterman |
| 2006 | CGO | Tailoring Graph-coloring Register Allocation For Runtime Compilation. | Keith D. Cooper, Anshuman Dasgupta |
| 2004 | CCGRID | Scheduling workflow applications in GrADS. | Anirban Mandal, Anshuman Dasgupta, Ken Kennedy, Mark Mazina, Charles Koelbel, Gabriel Marin, Keith D. Cooper, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Bo Liu, S. Lennart Johnsson |
| 2002 | PLDI | Fast Copy Coalescing and Live-Range Identification. | Zoran Budimlic, Keith D. Cooper, Timothy J. Harvey, Ken Kennedy, Timothy S. Oberg, Steven W. Reeves |
| 1999 | PLDI | Enhanced Code Compression for Embedded RISC Processors. | Keith D. Cooper, Nathaniel McIntosh |
| 1998 | ASPLOS | Compiler-Controlled Memory. | Keith D. Cooper, Timothy J. Harvey |
| 1998 | CC | Live Range Splitting in a Graph Coloring Register Allocator. | Keith D. Cooper, L. Taylor Simpson |
| 1997 | PLDI | Register Promotion in C Programs. | Keith D. Cooper, John Lu |
| 1994 | PLDI | Effective Partial Redundancy Elimination. | Preston Briggs, Keith D. Cooper |
| 1992 | PLDI | Rematerialization. | Preston Briggs, Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon |
| 1989 | PLDI | Coloring Heuristics for Register Allocation. | Preston Briggs, Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, Linda Torczon |
| 1989 | PLDI | Coloring heuristics for register allocation (with retrospective) | Preston Briggs, Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, Linda Torczon |
| 1989 | POPL | Fast Interprocedural Alias Analysis. | Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy |
| 1988 | PLDI | Interprocedural Side-Effect Analysis in Linear Time. | Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy |
| 1988 | PLDI | Interprocedural side-effect analysis in linear time (with retrospective) | Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy |
| 1986 | PLDI | Interprocedural constant propagation (with retrospective) | David Callahan, Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, Linda Torczon |
| 1985 | POPL | Analyzing Aliases of Reference Formal Parameters. | Keith D. Cooper |