Subject: [IRTF-Announce] IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize winners for 2021

From: Colin Perkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 14:26:05 +0000

I’m pleased to announce that the Applied Networking Research Prize <https://irtf.org/anrp/> (ANRP) winners for 2021 are as follows:

Thomas Wirtgen (UC Louvain) for his work on the extensibility of BGP implementations, and other routing protocols, in "xBGP: When You Can't Wait for the IETF and Vendors <https://nsg.ee.ethz.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/publications/hotnet023-wirtgenA.pdf>” (ACM HotNets 2020)
Rüdiger Birkner (ETH Zürich) for his work on network specification and verification in "Config2spec: Mining Network Specifications from Network Configurations <https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/birkner>” (USENIX NSDI 2020)
Francis Y. Yan (Stanford) for his work on applying machine learning to video bit-rate adaptation in "Learning in situ: a randomized experiment in video streaming <https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20/presentation/yan>” (USENIX NSDI 2020)
Aqsa Kashaf (CMU) for her work studying the effects of third-party service dependencies in the Internet in "Analyzing Third Party Service Dependencies in Modern Web Services: Have We Learned from the Mirai-Dyn Incident? <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3419394.3423664>” (ACM IMC 2020)
Audrey Randall (UCSD) for her work on DNS caching and privacy in "Trufflehunter: Cache Snooping Rare Domains at Large Public DNS Resolvers <https://doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423640>” (ACM IMC 2020)
Kevin Bock (UMD) for his work on Internet censorship in "Come as You Are: Helping Unmodified Clients Bypass Censorship with Server-side Evasion <https://www.cs.umd.edu/~dml/papers/geneva_sigcomm20.pdf>” (ACM SIGCOMM 2020)

In addition, we have one remaining award from 2020 where the awardee will give their talk during 2021:

Sadjad Fouladi (Stanford) for his work on low-latency video streaming in "Salsify: low-latency network video through tighter integration between a video codec and a transport protocol <https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/fouladi>” (USENIX NSDI 2018)

Congratulations to all the winners! 

Award talks will be given during the IRTF Open Meetings in 2021.

Colin Perkins
IRTF Chair