March 16, 2018

Announcing the winners of the Facebook Communications & Networking research awards

By: Meta Research

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Facebook Communications & Networking research awards. Continued research and innovation is key to building next generation communications and networking systems. By sponsoring research and collaborating across a wide range of networking research areas we expect to share new insights with the broader networking community.

The Facebook Communications & Networking award winners and their topic areas are:

Network Control Plane Verification at Scale
David Walker and Aarti Gupta, Princeton University

End-to-End Transport for Multi-User Video QoE Optimization
Mohammad Alizadeh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Integrating IPv6 Segment Routing and Modern Transport Protocols
Olivier Bonaventure, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

Automated Repair and Verification of Firewalls
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University

High Performance Server Packet Processing
Thomas Anderson, University of Washington

Scaling Distributed Storage with Programmable Switches
Xin Jin, Johns Hopkins University

Navigating the Latency-Quality Tradeoff in Personalized Live Video Streaming
Rashmi Vinayak, Carnegie Mellon University