Henrique Rodrigues, a Ph.D. student in computer science at the University of California, San Diego, who is working with ESnet, won the best student paper award at the Hot Interconnects conference held Aug. 26-28 in Mountain View, Calif. Known formally as the 2014 IEEE 22nd Annual Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects, Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales.

Rodrigues’ paper, “Traffic Optimization in Multi-Layered WANs using SDN,” was co-authored by Inder Monga, Chin Guok and Eric Poulyou of ESnet, Abhinava Sadasivarao and Sharfuddin Syed of Infinera Corp. and Tajana Rosing of UC San Diego.

“Special thanks to ESnet that gave me the opportunity to work on such an important and interesting topic,” Rodrigues wrote to his ESnet colleagues. “Also to the reviewers of my endless drafts, making themselves available to provide feedback at all times. I hope to continue with the good collaboration moving forward!”