Awards

• 2017 SIGCOMM Award Winner

• Raj Jain

  Washington University in St. Louis

  
  

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  Citation: For life-long contributions to computer networking including traffic management, congestion control, and performance analysis.

• 2017 SIGCOMM Test of Time Award Winners

• Ethane: Taking control of the Enterprise, SIGCOMM 2007

  Martin Casado, Michael J. Freedman, Justin Pettit, Jianying Luo, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker

  • Citation: Ethane ushered in the age of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and a new generation of research that inspired both academia and industry to design network control planes that we can reason about.

     

• Measurement and analysis of online social networks, IMC 2007

  Alan Mislove, Massimiliano Marcon, Krishna P. Gummadi, Peter Druschel, Bobby Bhattacharjee

  • Citation: This is one of the first papers that examine multiple online social networks at scale. By introducing novel measurement techniques, the paper has had an enduring influence on the analysis, modeling and design of modern social media and social networking services.

     

• 2017 SIGCOMM Best Paper Award Winners

• Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance

  Mark Handley (University College London), Costin Raiciu, Alexandru Agache, and Andrei Voinescu (University Politehnica of Bucharest), and Andrew Moore, Gianni Antichi, and Marcin Wójcik (University of Cambridge)

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• Language-directed hardware design for network performance monitoring

  Srinivas Narayana, Anirudh Sivaraman, Vikram Nathan, and Prateesh Goyal (MIT CSAIL), Venkat Arun (IIT Guwahati), Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT CSAIL), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Cisco Tetration Analytics), and Changhoon Kim (Barefoot Networks)

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• 2016 SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award

• Justine Sherry

  
  

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  Citation: Dissertation "Middleboxes as a Cloud Service" proposes that advanced network functions be implemented as software services running in the cloud, and develops in depth the algorithms and system designs needed to realize this vision in practice.

• Vamsi Talla

  
  

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  Citation: Dissertation "Power, Communication and Sensing Solutions for Energy Constrained Platforms" introduces techniques that make it possible to build low-power sensors and devices that consume no energy beyond what is already in the air, in ambient RF signals such as cellular, TV, and Wi-Fi.

• 2017 ACM Student Research Competition Winners (Graduate Track)

• First Place: Kazem Cheshmi

  Rutgers University

  
  

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  Citation: ACM CGO 2017 Conference, for his research project Decoupling Symbolic from Numeric in Sparse Matrix Calculations

• Second Place: Omid Abari

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  
  

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  Citation: ACM MobiCom 2016 Conference, for his research project Cutting the Cord in Virtual Reality

• Third Place: Calvin Loncaric

  University of Washington

  
  

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  Citation: ACM FSE 2016 Conference, for his research project Cozy: Synthesizing Collection Data Structures

• 2017 ACM Student Research Competition Winners (Undergraduate Track)

• First Place: Victor Lanvin

  ENS Paris Saclay

  
  

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  Citation: ACM POPL 2017 Conference, for his research project Gradual Set-Theoretic Types

• Second Place: Jennifer Vaccaro

  Olin College of Engineering

  
  

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  Citation: ACM ICCAD 2016 Conference, for her research project Applying Computer Modeling to Post-Silicon Electrical Validation

• Third Place: Martin Kellogg

  University of Washington

  
  

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  Citation: ACM FSE 2016 Conference, for his research project Combining Bug Detection and Test Case Generation