SIGCOMM Rising Star Award Winners

Each year, ACM SIGCOMM presents a "Rising Star" Award, recognizing a young researcher - an individual within 10 years of receiving their highest university degree - who has made outstanding research contributions to the field of communication networks during this early part of her or his career. Depth, impact, and novelty of the researcher's contributions will be key criteria upon which the Rising Star award committee evaluates the nominees. Also of particular interest are strong research contributions made independently from the nominee's PhD advisor.

 The award is in recognition of outstanding research contributions, early in his career, in the area of software-defined networking, programmable networks, and network support for distributed systems such as large-scale storage systems. The 2024 Rising Star Award Committee members were: Lixin Gao (UMass Amherst), Ramana Kompella (Cisco Research), Cristel Pelsser (UC Louvain), K. K. Ramakrishnan (U. California, Riverside), and chair Zhi-Li Zhang (University of Minnesota). 

The SIGCOMM Rising Star award was initiated by the CoNEXT steering committee, then adopted by SIGCOMM. Its first two recipients were awarded the "CoNEXT Rising Star Award."