Systems and networking research team receives Best Student Paper award at SIGMETRICS 2021

Monday, June 28, 2021

Research conducted by recent computer science master’s graduate Iman Akbari received a Best Student Paper award at SIGMETRICS 2021, the flagship conference of the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group for the computer systems performance evaluation community.

Iman’s award-winning research was conducted with Cheriton School of Computer Science research professor Mohammad A. Salahuddin, undergraduate student Leni Ven, research professor Noura Limam, and his supervisor professor Raouf Boutaba, along with Bertrand Mathieu, Stephanie Moteau and Stephane Tuffin, their international colleagues at Orange Labs in Lannion, France.

Their paper, “A Look Behind the Curtain: Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web,” which was presented virtually at SIGMETRICS in June 2021 and published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, examined the use of machine learning to classify encrypted network traffic.

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