ECE professor Ravi Mazumdar and his PhD student Arpan Mukhopadhyay are co-authors of a paper that received the best paper award at Performance 2015 just concluded in Sydney, Australia. Performance along with Sigmetrics is the top conference for the performance modeling and evaluation community. Another co-author (A. Karthik) was recent post-doc in our department. The paper is titled "Mean Field and Propagation of Chaos in Multi-Class Heterogeneous Loss Models for Cloud Applications" by Arpan Mukhopadhyay, A. Karthik, Ravi R. Mazumdar, Fabrice Guillemin.