A paper coauthored by Mung Chiang, his former postdoc Yung Yi (currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, Korea), and collaborators at Rice University, received 2013 IEEE SECON Best Paper Award. IEEE SECON is a premier conference in the areas of sensor and wireless networking, with an acceptance rate under 20%. The paper is entitled: "Making 802.11 DCF Near-Optimal: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation.