The Citizen Lab’s Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, and Zoë Reichert, in collaboration with Princeton researchers Prateek Mittal and Jonathan Mayer, have won the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize for their work on the network security of Android apps. Citizen Lab research fellow Mona Wang will receive the award on the team’s behalf at the IRTF Open Meeting at IETF-127 in San Francisco from November 14-20. Read the paper Learn more about the IRTF Open Meeting
Citizen Lab Researchers Win IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize
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