| 2020 | SIGMOD | Black or White? How to Develop an AutoTuner for Memory-based Analytics. | Mayuresh Kunjir, Shivnath Babu |
| 2019 | CIDR | Automated Performance Management for the Big Data Stack. | Anastasios Arvanitis, Shivnath Babu, Eric Chu, Adrian Popescu, Alkis Simitsis, Kevin Wilkinson |
| 2019 | SIGMOD | Cost-Effective, Workload-Adaptive Migration of Big Data Applications to the Cloud. | Victor Giannakouris, Alejandro Fernandez, Alkis Simitsis, Shivnath Babu |
| 2019 | SIGMOD | MIFO: A Query-Semantic Aware Resource Allocation Policy. | Prajakta Kalmegh, Shivnath Babu |
| 2019 | SIGMOD | iQCAR: inter-Query Contention Analyzer for Data Analytics Frameworks. | Prajakta Kalmegh, Shivnath Babu, Sudeepa Roy |
| 2018 | CLOUD | iQCAR: Inter-Query Contention Analyzer. | Prajakta Kalmegh, Shivnath Babu, Sudeepa Roy |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | iQCAR: A Demonstration of an Inter-Query Contention Analyzer for Cluster Computing Frameworks. | Prajakta Kalmegh, Harrison Lundberg, Frederick Xu, Shivnath Babu, Sudeepa Roy |
| 2017 | SIGMOD | ROBUS: Fair Cache Allocation for Data-parallel Workloads. | Mayuresh Kunjir, Brandon Fain, Kamesh Munagala, Shivnath Babu |
| 2014 | EDBT | PStorM: Profile Storage and Matching for Feedback-Based Tuning of MapReduce Jobs. | Mostafa Ead, Herodotos Herodotou, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2014 | ICDE | Execution and optimization of continuous windowed aggregation queries. | Harold Lim, Shivnath Babu |
| 2013 | CIDR | How to Fit when No One Size Fits. | Harold Lim, Yuzhang Han, Shivnath Babu |
| 2013 | EDBT | Rapid experimentation for testing and tuning a production database deployment. | Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Babu |
| 2013 | ICDE | Workload management for Big Data analytics. | Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2013 | SIGMOD | Workload management for big data analytics. | Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2013 | SIGMOD | Cumulon: optimizing statistical data analysis in the cloud. | Botong Huang, Shivnath Babu, Jun Yang |
| 2013 | SIGMOD | Execution and optimization of continuous queries with cyclops. | Harold Lim, Shivnath Babu |
| 2012 | CIKM | A practical concurrent index for solid-state drives. | Risi Thonangi, Shivnath Babu, Jun Yang |
| 2011 | CIDR | Starfish: A Self-tuning System for Big Data Analytics. | Herodotos Herodotou, Harold Lim, Gang Luo, Nedyalko Borisov, Liang Dong, Fatma Bilgen Cetin, Shivnath Babu |
| 2011 | CLOUD | No one (cluster) size fits all: automatic cluster sizing for data-intensive analytics. | Herodotos Herodotou, Fei Dong, Shivnath Babu |
| 2011 | EDBT | Predicting completion times of batch query workloads using interaction-aware models and simulation. | Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2011 | ICDE | Dealing proactively with data corruption: Challenges and opportunities. | Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Babu, NagaPramod Mandagere, Sandeep Uttamchandani |
| 2011 | SIGMOD | Warding off the dangers of data corruption with amulet. | Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Babu, NagaPramod Mandagere, Sandeep Uttamchandani |
| 2011 | SIGMOD | Query optimization techniques for partitioned tables. | Herodotos Herodotou, Nedyalko Borisov, Shivnath Babu |
| 2010 | CLOUD | Towards automatic optimization of MapReduce programs. | Shivnath Babu |
| 2010 | ICDE | Interaction-aware prediction of business intelligence workload completion times. | Mumtaz Ahmad, Songyun Duan, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2010 | SIGMOD | iTuned: a tool for configuring and visualizing database parameters. | Vamsidhar Thummala, Shivnath Babu |
| 2009 | FAST | DIADS: Addressing the "My-Problem-or-Yours" Syndrome with Integrated SAN and Database Diagnosis. | Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Sandeep Uttamchandani, Ramani Routray, Aameek Singh |
| 2009 | HotOS | Automated Experiment-Driven Management of (Database) Systems. | Shivnath Babu, Nedyalko Borisov, Songyun Duan, Herodotos Herodotou, Vamsidhar Thummala |
| 2009 | ICDE | Automated Diagnosis of System Failures with Fa. | Songyun Duan, Shivnath Babu |
| 2009 | ICDE | Fa: A System for Automating Failure Diagnosis. | Songyun Duan, Shivnath Babu, Kamesh Munagala |
| 2009 | ICDE | Shaman: A Self-Healing Database System. | Songyun Duan, Peter Franklin, Vamsidhar Thummala, Dongdong Zhao, Shivnath Babu |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | Query interactions in database workloads. | Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | Large-scale uncertainty management systems: learning and exploiting your data. | Shivnath Babu, Sudipto Guha, Kamesh Munagala |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error. | Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu |
| 2008 | CIKM | Modeling and exploiting query interactions in database systems. | Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, Kamesh Munagala |
| 2008 | ICDE | QShuffler: Getting the Query Mix Right. | Mumtaz Ahmad, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Shivnath Babu, Kamesh Munagala |
| 2008 | ICDE | Processing Diagnosis Queries: A Principled and Scalable Approach. | Shivnath Babu, Songyun Duan, Kamesh Munagala |
| 2008 | MASCOTS | Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less. | Risi Thonangi, Vamsidhar Thummala, Shivnath Babu |
| 2008 | OSDI | Empirical Comparison of Techniques for Automated Failure Diagnosis. | Songyun Duan, Shivnath Babu |
| 2008 | USENIX | Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking. | Piyush Shivam, Varun Marupadi, Jeffrey S. Chase, Thileepan Subramaniam, Shivnath Babu |
| 2007 | ICDE | On Suspending and Resuming Dataflows. | Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnath Babu, Jun Yang |
| 2007 | ICDE | Toward Self-Healing Multitier Services. | Brian Cook, Shivnath Babu, George Candea, Songyun Duan |
| 2007 | SIGMOD | Query suspend and resume. | Badrish Chandramouli, Christopher N. Bond, Shivnath Babu, Jun Yang |
| 2007 | SIGMOD | Automated and on-demand provisioning of virtual machines for database applications. | Piyush Shivam, Azbayar Demberel, Pradeep Gunda, David Irwin, Laura E. Grit, Aydan R. Yumerefendi, Shivnath Babu, Jeffrey S. Chase |
| 2007 | VLDB | Processing Forecasting Queries. | Songyun Duan, Shivnath Babu |
| 2006 | SIGMOD | Proactive identification of performance problems. | Songyun Duan, Shivnath Babu |
| 2006 | VLDB | Active and Accelerated Learning of Cost Models for Optimizing Scientific Applications. | Piyush Shivam, Shivnath Babu, Jeffrey S. Chase |
| 2005 | CIDR | Adaptive Query Processing in the Looking Glass. | Shivnath Babu, Pedro Bizarro |
| 2005 | ICDE | Adaptive Caching for Continuous Queries. | Shivnath Babu, Kamesh Munagala, Jennifer Widom, Rajeev Motwani |
| 2005 | ICDT | The Pipelined Set Cover Problem. | Kamesh Munagala, Shivnath Babu, Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom |
| 2005 | SIGMOD | Proactive Re-optimization. | Shivnath Babu, Pedro Bizarro, David J. DeWitt |
| 2005 | SIGMOD | Proactive re-optimization with Rio. | Shivnath Babu, Pedro Bizarro, David J. DeWitt |
| 2005 | VLDB | Content-Based Routing: Different Plans for Different Data. | Pedro Bizarro, Shivnath Babu, David J. DeWitt, Jennifer Widom |
| 2004 | SIGMOD | Adaptive Ordering of Pipelined Stream Filters. | Shivnath Babu, Rajeev Motwani, Kamesh Munagala, Itaru Nishizawa, Jennifer Widom |
| 2004 | SIGMOD | StreaMon: An Adaptive Engine for Stream Query Processing. | Shivnath Babu, Jennifer Widom |
| 2003 | CIDR | Query Processing, Approximation, and Resource Management in a Data Stream Management System. | Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom, Arvind Arasu, Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Gurmeet Singh Manku, Chris Olston, Justin Rosenstein, Rohit Varma |
| 2003 | SIGMOD | STREAM: The Stanford Stream Data Manager. | Arvind Arasu, Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Keith Ito, Itaru Nishizawa, Justin Rosenstein, Jennifer Widom |
| 2003 | SIGMOD | Chain : Operator Scheduling for Memory Minimization in Data Stream Systems. | Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani |
| 2002 | PODS | Characterizing Memory Requirements for Queries over Continuous Data Streams. | Arvind Arasu, Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Jon McAlister, Jennifer Widom |
| 2002 | PODS | Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems. | Brian Babcock, Shivnath Babu, Mayur Datar, Rajeev Motwani, Jennifer Widom |
| 2001 | SIGMOD | SPARTAN: A Model-Based Semantic Compression System for Massive Data Tables. | Shivnath Babu, Minos N. Garofalakis, Rajeev Rastogi |