Student Award Recipients

Every year ACM SIGCOMM gives a best student paper award to the best paper whose main author is a student. Here is the list of recipients of this prestigious award.

• 2022: Venkat Arun, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan (MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab), "Starvation in End-to-End Congestion Control"

• 2021: Yang Li, Hao Lin (Tsinghua University, Xiaomi Technology Co. LTD), Zhenhua Li, Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua University), Feng Qian (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Liangyi Gong (Tsinghua University), Xianlong Xin (Xiaomi Tetchnology Co. LTD), Tianyin Xu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "A National Study on Cellular Reliability: Measurement, Analysis, and Enhancements"

• 2020: Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla (UCLA); Ryan Beckett, Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research); Todd Millstein (UCLA / Intentionet); George Varghese (UCLA), "GRoot: Proactive Verification of DNS Configurations"

• 2020: Samuel Steffen, Timon Gehr, Petar Tsankov, Laurent Vanbever, Martin Vechev (ETH Zürich), "Probabilistic Verification of Network Configurations"

• 2019: Praveen Kumar (Cornell University), Nandita Dukkipati (Google), Nathan Lewis (Google), Yi Cui (Google), Yaogong Wang (Google), Chonggang Li (Google), Valas Valancius (Google), Jake Adriaens (Google), Steve Gribble (Google), Nate Foster (Cornell University), Amin Vahdat (Google), "PicNIC: Predictable Virtualized NIC"

• 2015: Justine Sherry (UC Berkeley), Peter Gao (UC Berkeley), Soumya Basu (UC Berkeley), Aurojit Panda (UC Berkeley), Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of Washington), Christian Macciocco (Intel Research), Maziar Manesh (Intel Research), Joao Martins (NEC Labs), Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley), Luigi Rizzo (University of Pisa), Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley and ICSI), "Rollback Recovery for Middleboxes"

• 2014: No award was given.

• 2013: Vincent Liu, Aaron Parks, Vamsi Talla, Shyamnath Gollakota, David Wetherall and Joshua Smith, “Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air”

• 2012: Steven Hong, Jeff Mehlman, Picasso: Flexible RF and Spectrum Slicing

• 2011: Shyamnath Gollakota, Haitham Hassanieh, Benjamin Ransford, They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices

• 2010: Binbin Chen, Efficient Error Estimating Coding: Feasibility and Applications

• 2009: Randolph Baden, Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy

• 2008: Shyamnath Gollakota, ZigZag Decoding: Combating Hidden Terminals in Wireless Networks

• 2007: Barath Raghavan, Cloud Control with Distributed Rate Limiting

• 2006: Anirudh Ramachandran,Understanding the Network-Level Behavior of Spammers

• 2005: Sanjit Biswas, ExOR: Opportunistic Multi-Hop Routing for Wireless Networks

• 2004: Daniel Aguayo, Link-level Measurements from an 802.11b Mesh Network
  and Lun Li, A First-Principles Approach to Understanding the Internet's Router-level Topology

• 2003: Long Le, Jay Aikat, The Effects of Active Queue Management on Web Performance

• 2002: Neil Spring, Ratul Mahajan, Measuring ISP Topologies with Rocketfuel

• 2001: Alex Snoeren, Hash-Based IP Traceback

• 2000: Dina Katabi, A framework for scalable global IP-anycast (GIA)

• 1999: Suchitra Raman, A model, analysis, and protocol framework for soft state-based communication

• 1998: Elan Amir, An active service framework and its application to real-time multimedia transcoding

• 1997: Mikael Degermark, Small forwarding tables for fast routing lookups
  and Craig Labovitz, Internet routing instability

• 1996: Vern Paxson, End-to-end routing behavior in the Internet

• 1995: Sugih Jamin, A measurement-based admission control algorithm for integrated services packet networks

• 1994: Peter Druschel, Experiences with a high-speed network adaptor: a software perspective

• 1993: Tony Ballardie, Core based trees (CBT)

• 1992: Mark Abbot, A language-based approach to protocol implementation
  and Subramanian Ramanathan, Scheduling algorithms for multi-hop radio networks

• 1991: Srinivasan Keshav, A Control-theoretic approach to flow control

• 1990: Lee Breslau, Design of Inter-Administrative Domain Routing Protocols

• 1989: Ken Calvert, Deriving a protocol converter: a top-down method

• 1988: Stephen E. Deering, Multicast routing in internetworks and extended LANs

• 1987: No Winner

• 1986: Brett Fleisch, Distributed system V IPC in LOCUS: A design and implementation retrospective
  and Lixia Zhang, Why TCP timers don't work well