| 2007 | ICDE | Optimizing Similar Scalar Subqueries for XML Processing in Microsoft SQL Server. | Adrian Baras, Csar A. Galindo-Legaria, Torsten Grabs, Babu Krishnaswamy, Shankar Pal |
| 2006 | EDBT | Managing Collections of XML Schemas in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. | Shankar Pal, Dragan Tomic, Brandon Berg, Joe Xavier |
| 2005 | VLDB | XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System. | Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Michael Rys, Gideon Schaller, Wei Yu, Dragan Tomic, Adrian Baras, Brandon Berg, Denis Churin, Eugene Kogan |
| 2004 | SIGMOD | ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels. | Patrick E. O'Neil, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Nigel Westbury |
| 2004 | VLDB | Indexing XML Data Stored in a Relational Database. | Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller, Oliver Seeliger, Leo Giakoumakis, Vasili Vasili Zolotov |
| 1999 | SIGMOD | Versions and Workspaces in Microsoft Repository. | Thomas Bergstraesser, Philip A. Bernstein, Shankar Pal, David Shutt |
| 1999 | VLDB | Context-Based Prefetch for Implementing Objects on Relations. | Philip A. Bernstein, Shankar Pal, David Shutt |
| 1997 | SP | The Design and Implementation of a Multilevel Secure Log Manager. | Vikram R. Pesati, Thomas E. Keefe, Shankar Pal |
| 1996 | ESORICS | The Impact of Multilevel Security on Database Buffer Management. | Andrew Warner, Qiang Li, Thomas F. Keefe, Shankar Pal |
| 1995 | DBSEC | A Locking Protocol for MLS Databases Providing Support For Long Transactions. | Shankar Pal |
| 1994 | ADC | A Study of the Relationship Among Various Notions of Serializability. | Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka |
| 1994 | ADC | Transaction Processing in Multidatabase Systems Without Atomic Commitment Protocol. | Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka |
| 1994 | CIKM | Isolation of Transaction Aborts in Object-Oriented Database Management Systems. | Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka |
| 1994 | COMAD | Conflict-Dependency: Combining Concurrency Beyond Commutativity with Efficient Recovery. | Shankar Pal, Sitaram Lanka |