Book chapters or sections

• J. Fakcharoenphol and S. Rao, "Shortest Paths in Planar Graphs with Negative Weight Edges," in Encyclopedia of Algorithms, M. Y. Kao, Ed., Springer Reference, Secaucus, NJ: Springer US, 2008.
• J. Fakcharoenphol, S. Rao, and K. Talwar, "Approximating Metric Space by Tree Metrics," in Encyclopedia of Algorithms, M. Y. Kao, Ed., Springer Reference, Secaucus, NJ: Springer US, 2008.
• S. Sridhar, S. Rao, and E. Halperin, "An efficient and accurate graph-based approach to detect population substructure," in Research in Computational Molecular Biology: Proc. 11th Annual Intl. Conf. (RECOMB 2007), T. Speed and H. Huang, Eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science::Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 4453, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 503-517.
• C. Daskalakis, C. Hill, A. Jaffe, R. Mihaescu, E. Mossel, and S. Rao, "Maximal accurate forests from distance matrices," in Research in Computational Molecular Biology: Proc. 10th Annual Intl. Conf. (RECOMB 2006), A. Apostolico, C. Guerra, S. Istrail, P. Pevzner, and M. Waterman, Eds., Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Vol. 3909, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 281-295.

Articles in journals or magazines

• A. Schild, S. Rao, and N. Srivastava, "Localization of Electrical Flows," SODA 2018, 2017.
• S. Arora, S. Rao, and U. Vazirani, "Geometry, flows, and graph-partitioning algorithms," Communications ACM, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 96-105, Oct. 2008.
• S. G. Kolliopoulos and S. Rao, "A nearly linear-time approximation scheme for the Euclidean $k$-median problem," SIAM J. Computing, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 757-782, July 2007.
• J. Fakcharoenphol, C. Harrelson, and S. Rao, "The k-traveling repairmen problem," ACM Trans. on Algorithms: Special Issue on SODA 2002, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. Art. 40, Feb. 2007.
• K. Hildrum, J. D. Kubiatowicz, S. Rao, and B. Y. Zhao, "Distributed object location in a dynamic network," Theory of Computing Systems, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 405-440, May 2004.
• G. Even, J. S. Naor, S. Rao, and B. Schieber, "Divide-and-conquer approximation algorithms using spreading metrics," J. ACM, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 585-616, July 2000.
• T. Leighton and S. Rao, "Multicommodity max-flow min-cut theorems and their use in designing approximation algorithms," J. ACM, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 787-832, Nov. 1999.
• M. W. Goudreau, K. Lang, S. Rao, T. Suel, and T. Tsantilas, "Portable and efficient parallel computing using the BSP model," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 670-689, July 1999.
• A. V. Goldberg and S. Rao, "Beyond the flow decomposition barrier," J. ACM, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 783-797, Sep. 1998.
• F. T. Leighton, B. M. Maggs, and S. Rao, "Packet routing and job-shop scheduling in O(congestion + dilation) steps," Combinatorica, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 167-186, June 1994.

Articles in conference proceedings

• P. Biswal, J. R. Lee, and S. Rao, "Eigenvalue bounds, spectral partitioning, and metrical deformations via flows," in Proc. 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2008), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2008.
• K. Chaudhuri and S. Rao, "Learning mixtures of product distributions using correlations and independence," in Proc. 21st Annual Conf. on Learning Theory (COLT 2008), R. A. Servedio and T. Zhang, Eds., Madison, WI: Omnipress, 2008, pp. 9-20.
• K. Chaudhuri and S. Rao, "Beyond Gaussians: Spectral methods for learning mixtures of heavy-tailed distributions," in Proc. 21st Annual Conf. on Learning Theory (COLT 2008), R. A. Servedio and T. Zhang, Eds., Madison, WI: Omnipress, 2008, pp. 21-32.
• B. Awerbuch, R. Khandekar, and S. Rao, "Distributed algorithms for multicommodity flow problems via approximate steepest descent framework," in Proc. 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007), Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007, pp. 949-957.
• K. Chaudhuri, E. Halperin, S. Rao, and S. Zhou, "A rigorous analysis of population stratification with limited data," in Proc. 18th Annual ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2007), Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2007, pp. 1046-1055.
• R. Khandekar, S. Rao, and U. Vazirani, "Graph partitioning using single commodity flows," in Proc. 38th Annual ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2006, pp. 385-390.
• S. Arora, S. Rao, and U. Vazirani, "Expander flows, geometric embeddings and graph partitioning," in Proc. 36th Annual ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 222-231.
• K. Hildrum, J. D. Kubiatowicz, S. Ma, and S. Rao, "A note on the nearest neighbor in growth-restricted metrics," in Proc. 15th Annual ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2004), New York, NY/Philadelphia, PA: ACM/SIAM, 2004, pp. 560-561.
• J. Fakcharoenphol, S. Rao, and K. Talwar, "A tight bound on approximating arbitrary metrics by tree metrics," in Proc. 35th Annual ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003, pp. 448-455.
• K. Hildrum, J. D. Kubiatowicz, S. Rao, and B. Y. Zhao, "Distributed object location in a dynamic network," in Proc. 14th Annual ACM Symp. on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 41-52.
• S. Rao, "Small distortion and volume preserving embeddings for planar and Euclidean metrics," in Proc. 15th Annual Symp. on Computational Geometry, New York, NY: ACM Press, 1999, pp. 300-306.
• I. J. Cox, S. Rao, and Y. Zhong, ""Ratio regions": A technique for image segmentation," in Proc. 13th Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1996, pp. 557-564.

Technical Reports

• K. Chen and S. Rao, "An Improved Frequent Items Algorithm with Applications to Web Caching," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-05-1383, 2005. [abstract]
• K. Hildrum, S. Ma, and S. Rao, "Randomized Rumor Spreading with Fewer Phone Calls," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-04-1329, June 2004. [abstract]
• K. Hildrum, J. Kubiatowicz, and S. Rao, "Another Way to Find the Nearest Neighbor in Growth-Restricted Metrics," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-03-1267, Aug. 2003. [abstract]
• K. Hildrum, J. D. Kubiatowicz, S. Rao, and B. Y. Zhao, "Distributed Data Location in a Dynamic Network," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/CSD-02-1178, April 2002. [abstract]

Patents

• M. M. Afergan, C. J. LaFleur, D. P. Hong, and S. Rao, "Apparatus and method for caching of compressed content in a content delivery network," U.S. Patent 8,903,937. Dec. 2014. [abstract]
• C. F. Bornstein, T. K. Canfield, G. L. Miller, S. Rao, and R. Sundaram, "Optimal route selection in a content delivery network," U.S. Patent 8,477,630. July 2013. [abstract]
• C. F. Bornstein, T. K. Canfield, G. L. Miller, S. Rao, and R. Sundaram, "Optimal route selection in a content delivery network," U.S. Patent 8,194,538. June 2012. [abstract]
• C. F. Bornstein, T. K. Canfield, G. L. Miller, S. Rao, and R. Sundaram, "Optimal route selection in a content delivery network," U.S. Patent 7,929,429. April 2011. [abstract]
• C. F. Bornstein, T. K. Canfield, G. L. Miller, S. Rao, and R. Sundaram, "Optimal route selection in a content delivery network," U.S. Patent 7,274,658. Sep. 2007. [abstract]
• I. J. Cox and S. B. Rao, "Method for image segmentation by minimizing the ratio between the exterior boundary cost and the cost of the enclosed region," U.S. Patent 6,078,688. June 2000.
• S. B. Rao, "VLSI circuit layout method based on spreading functions and simulated annealing heuristics to minimize area," U.S. Patent 5,737,233. April 1998.
• Y. Li and S. Rao, "Optical mesh-connected bus interconnect for a computer," U.S. Patent 5,465,379. Nov. 1995.

Masters Reports

• S. Rao and J. Hong, "Analysis of Hidden Markov Models and Support Vector Machines in Financial Applications," P. Bartlett, Ed., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2010-63, May 2010. [abstract]
• N. Wu, "Preliminary Studies on de novo Assembly with Short Reads," S. Rao and Y. S. Song, Eds., EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2009-172, Dec. 2009. [abstract]