| 2025 | EDM | Mining for Knowledge, Not Trouble: GDPR's Impact on Educational Data Mining. | Aytaj Ismayilzada, Mirka Saarela, Ayaz Karimov |
| 2025 | LAK | Scaling Virtual Classrooms: Overcoming Barriers to Learning Analytics in VR. | Aytaj Ismayilzada, Ayaz Karimov, Mirka Saarela |
| 2025 | SAC | Quantitative Assessment of Explainability in Machine Learning Models : A Study on the OULA Dataset. | Sachini Gunasekara, Mirka Saarela |
| 2024 | EDM | Explainability in Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics: An Umbrella Review. | Sachini Gunasekara, Mirka Saarela |
| 2024 | EDM | Ethical Educational Data Processing Differences of Students with Special Needs in Post-Soviet Countries. | Ayaz Karimov, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2024 | EDM | Principals' use of data analytics in Finnish schools. | Ayaz Karimov, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen, Sabina Aghayeva |
| 2024 | SAC | On the relation of causality- versus correlation-based feature selection on model fairness. | Mirka Saarela |
| 2023 | EDM | Clustering to define interview participants for analyzing student feedback: a case of Legends of Learning. | Ayaz Karimov, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2023 | EDM | The impact of online educational platform on students' motivation and grades: the case of Khan Academy in the under-resourced communities. | Ayaz Karimov, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2020 | FIE | Course Satisfaction in Engineering Education Through the Lens of Student Agency Analytics. | Ville Heilala, Mirka Saarela, Pivikki Jskel, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2017 | CSEDU | Supporting Institutional Awareness and Academic Advising using Clustered Study Profiles. | Mariia Gavriushenko, Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2017 | PAKDD | Feature Ranking of Large, Robust, and Weighted Clustering Result. | Mirka Saarela, Joonas Hmlinen, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2015 | EDM | Do Country Stereotypes Exist in Educational Data? A Clustering Approach for Large, Sparse, and Weighted Data. | Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2015 | ESANN | Weighted Clustering of Sparse Educational Data. | Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |
| 2014 | EDM | Discovering Gender-Specific Knowledge from Finnish Basic Education using PISA Scale Indices. | Mirka Saarela, Tommi Krkkinen |