CSE PhD student Weiteng Chen received the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) from Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) for his work, together with his advisor Zhiyun Qian, on the inherent design flaw of Wi-Fi networks:
Weiteng Chen, Zhiyun Qian, Off-Path TCP Exploit: How Wireless Routers Can Jeopardize Your Secret, USENIX Security 2018
This year there are 6 research papers in the applied networking research area that have received the award.