Justine Sherry wins the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award

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CS alumna Justine Sherry (M.S. ’12/Ph.D. ’16 advisor: Sylvia Ratnasamy) has won the ACM SIGCOMM Doctoral Dissertation Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Computer Networking and Data Communication.  Justine’s thesis was on “Middleboxes as a Cloud Service,” and brought the benefits of cloud computing to the networking domain.  Justine is now assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.