| 2026 | SIGCSE | Late Test Takers Do Worse On Exams. | Kelly Downey, Paea LePendu |
| 2026 | SIGCSE | What About Cheatsheets are Useful? | Kevin Loritsch, Kelly Downey, Paea LePendu |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | One Solution to Addressing Assessment Logistical Problems: An Experience Setting Up and Operating an In-person Testing Center. | Kelly Downey, Kris Miller, Mariana Silva, Craig B. Zilles |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Towards Grading for Equity in a Large CS1 Class: An Experience with Flexible Deadlines and Resubmissions. | Frank Vahid, Ashley Pang, Kelly Downey |
| 2023 | ITiCSE | Impact of Student Time Spent on Performance in a CS1 Class, Including Prior Experience Effect. | Frank Vahid, Ashley Pang, Kelly Downey |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Experiences Teaching Coral Before C++ in CS1. | Frank Vahid, Kelly Downey, Lizbeth Areizaga, Ashley Pang |
| 2023 | SIGCSE | Impact of Several Low-Effort Cheating-Reduction Methods in a CS1 Class. | Frank Vahid, Kelly Downey, Ashley Pang, Chelsea Gordon |
| 2020 | SIGCSE | Summer Coding Camp as a Gateway to STEM. | Paea LePendu, Cecilia Cheung, Mariam Salloum, Pamela Sheffler, Kelly Downey |
| 2019 | SIGCSE | An Analysis of Using Many Small Programs in CS1. | Joe Michael Allen, Frank Vahid, Alex D. Edgcomb, Kelly Downey, Kris Miller |
| 2004 | SECON | Applications and experiments with eBlocks - electronic blocks for basic sensor-based systems. | Susan Cotterell, Kelly Downey, Frank Vahid |