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)

M-Lock: Accelerating Distributed Transactions on Key-Value Stores through Dynamic Lock Localization. - Naresh Rapolu; Srimat Chakradhar; Adnan Hassan; Ananth Grama (IEEE CLOUD, 2013)

Dynamic re-optimization techniques for stream processing engines and object stores - Naresh Rapolu (2015)

VAYU: Accelerating stream processing applications through dynamic network-aware topology re-optimization. - Naresh Rapolu; Srimat Chakradhar; Ananth Grama (J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2018)