I’m pleased to announce that the winners of the 2025 Applied
Networking Research Prize (ANRP) are Jacob Ginesin, Saksham Agarwal,
Hendrik Cech, Haarika Manda, Changjie Wang, and Henry Birge-Lee.
The ANRP is awarded to recognise the best recent results in applied
networking, interesting new research ideas of potential relevance to the
Internet standards community, and upcoming people that are likely to
have an impact on Internet standards and technologies, with a particular
focus on cases where these people or ideas would not otherwise get much
exposure or be able to participate in the discussion.
The award winning papers are as follows:
* **Jacob Ginesin**, Max von Hippel, Evan Defloor, Cristina Nita-Rotaru,
and Michael Tüxen, [A Formal Analysis of SCTP: Attack Synthesis and
Patch
Verification](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/ginesin),
Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, 2024.
* **Saksham Agarwal**, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Rachit Agarwal. [Host
Congestion Control](https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~saksham/hostcc/),
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, 2023.
* Nitinder Mohan, Andrew E. Ferguson, **Hendrik Cech**, Rohan Bose,
Prakita Rayyan Renatin, Mahesh K. Marina, and Jörg Ott, [A Multifaceted
Look at Starlink Performance](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09242),
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, 2024.
* **Haarika Manda**, Varshika Srinivasavaradhan, Laasya Koduru, Kevin
Zhang, Xuanhe Zhou, Udit Paul, Elizabeth Belding, Arpit Gupta, and Tejas
N. Narechania, [The Efficacy of the Connect America Fund in Addressing
US Internet Access Inequities](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18657),
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, 2024.
* **Changjie Wang**, Mariano Scazzariello, Alireza Farshin, Simone
Ferlin, Dejan Kostić, and Marco Chiesa, [NetConfEval: Can LLMs
Facilitate Network
Configuration](https://github.com/RedHatResearch/conext24-NetConfEval),
Proceedings of ACM CoNEXT 2024.
* **Henry Birge-Lee**, Sophia Yoo, Benjamin Herber, Jennifer Rexford,
and Maria Apostolaki, [Tango: Secure Collaborative Route Control across
the Public
Internet](https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/birge-lee),
Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and
Implementation, 2024.
Congratulations to all the awardees! Look out for their award talks and
presentations in the IRTF Open Meetings, co-located with the IETF
meeting during 2025.
Colin Perkins
IRTF Chair
