| 2014 | NOMS | Application-driven dynamic vertical scaling of virtual machines in resource pools. | Lei Lu, Xiaoyun Zhu, Rean Griffith, Pradeep Padala, Aashish Parikh, Parth Shah, Evgenia Smirni |
| 2012 | HiPC | Workload dependent IO scheduling for fairness and efficiency in shared storage systems. | Ajay Gulati, Arif Merchant, Mustafa Uysal, Pradeep Padala, Peter J. Varman |
| 2010 | USENIX | LiteGreen: Saving Energy in Networked Desktops Using Virtualization. | Tathagata Das, Pradeep Padala, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Ramachandran Ramjee, Kang G. Shin |
| 2009 | EuroSys | Automated control of multiple virtualized resources. | Pradeep Padala, Kai-Yuan Hou, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant |
| 2009 | IM | Memory overbooking and dynamic control of Xen virtual machines in consolidated environments. | Jin Heo, Xiaoyun Zhu, Pradeep Padala, Zhikui Wang |
| 2007 | EuroSys | Adaptive control of virtualized resources in utility computing environments. | Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin, Xiaoyun Zhu, Mustafa Uysal, Zhikui Wang, Sharad Singhal, Arif Merchant, Kenneth Salem |
| 2007 | IM | Capacity and Performance Overhead in Dynamic Resource Allocation to Virtual Containers. | Zhikui Wang, Xiaoyun Zhu, Pradeep Padala, Sharad Singhal |
| 2006 | HiPC | Gvu: A View-Oriented Framework for Data Management in Grid Environments. | Pradeep Padala, Kang G. Shin |
| 2003 | HiPC | GridOS: Operating System Services for Grid Architectures. | Pradeep Padala, Joseph N. Wilson |
| 2003 | ISPDC | OCEAN: The Open Computation Exchange and Arbitration Network, A Market Approach to Meta Computing. | Pradeep Padala, Cyrus Harrison, Nicholas Pelfort, Erwin Jansen, Michael P. Frank, Chaitanya Chokkareddy |