Towards Optimizing Hadoop Provisioning in the Cloud. - Karthik Kambatla; Abhinav Pathak; Himabindu Pucha (HotCloud, 2009)

Asynchronous Algorithms in MapReduce. - Karthik Kambatla; Naresh Rapolu; Suresh Jagannathan; Ananth Grama (CLUSTER, 2010)

TransMR: Data-Centric Programming Beyond Data Parallelism. - Naresh Rapolu; Karthik Kambatla; Suresh Jagannathan; Ananth Grama (HotCloud, 2011)

The Truth About MapReduce Performance on SSDs. - Karthik Kambatla; Yanpei Chen (LISA, 2014)

Trends in big data analytics. - Karthik Kambatla; Giorgios Kollias; Vipin Kumar 001; Ananth Grama (J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2014)

Methods to Improve Applicability and Efficiency of Distributed Data-Centric Compute Frameworks - Karthik Kambatla (2016)

UBIS: Utilization-Aware Cluster Scheduling. - Karthik Kambatla; Vamsee Yarlagadda; Iñigo Goiri; Ananth Grama (IPDPS, 2018)

Optimistic scheduling with service guarantees. - Karthik Kambatla; Vamsee Yarlagadda; Iñigo Goiri; Ananth Grama (J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2020)