Aaron Ding, PhD

Director,

& Horizon SPATIAL €5M
Senior Associate Professor (UHD1), TU Delft
Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on IoT
Editorial Board, Springer Nature Computing
Founder, FCN Series
Founder, ACM EdgeSys

Google Scholar

Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl

Service Highlight

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Winston Churchill

I have been contributing to numerous scientific communities in terms of editorship, chairing, refereeing, and program committee. As the founder of ACM EdgeSys and FCN series since 2014, I have been building and strengthening the international community to promote active collaborations between top institutes including Cambridge, Copenhagen, Delft, Helsinki, London, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, MPI, IMEC, EPFL, HKUST, Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan. I value the engagement with international scholars from different backgrounds and cultures. Along the way, I host, visit and collaborate with many distinguished colleagues across Europe, Asia, and North America.

I am an active member with chair, referee and executive commitment for ACM, IEEE, Springer Nature, and IETF.

Academic Services

Funding Grant Referee

European Union CHIST-ERA: Sustainable ICT Calls
Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council: Personal Grant Calls
German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Personal Grant Calls
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG): AI for Green + Edge AI Flagship Calls
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): National Centre of Competence Research Calls
UCL Research Council: Concerted Research Actions Calls

Editorial Board

Springer Nature Journal on Computing, 2024 ~ present
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), 2021 ~ present
IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), 2019 - 2024

Research Leadership

Host of ACM EdgeSys 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2024, Athens, Greece
Host of two Dagstuhl series on "Edge AI" 2021-2023, Germany
Host of two Lorentz series on "Future Computing" 2021-2023, NL
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2023, Rome, Italy
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2022, Rennes, France
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2021, Edinburgh, UK
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2020, Crete, Greece
Host of ACM EdgeSys 2019, Dresden, Germany
Founder of ACM EdgeSys 2018, Munich, Germany

Executive Commitment

Executive Committee for TU Delft Power Web Institute, 2019 ~ present
Tenured Staff Representative for TU Delft Faculty Evaluation, 2023
Faculty Hiring Committee for TU Delft, 2021 - 2023
Committee for TU Delft Works Council, 2019 - 2023
Faculty Graduation Coordinator for TU Delft, 2018 - 2021
Scientific Staff Representative for TU Munich 5-Year Evaluation, 2017
Board of IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals, 2016 - 2018
Executive Committee for IEEE Finland, 2014 - 2015
PhD Representative for HIIT Advisory Board Evaluation, 2012
PhD Representative for Helsinki Faculty of Science Evaluation, 2011

Chairing Committee

IEEE EDGE 2025 [General Chair]
ACM UbiComp 2025 [Workshop Tutorial Chair]
ACM MobiSys 2025 [Travel Grant Chair]
ACM e-Energy 2025 [Publicity Chair]
PowerWeb Conference 2025 [Program Chair]
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2024 [Program Committee Chair]
ACM SenSys 2024 [Publicity Chair]
ACM IoT 2024 [Publicity Chair]
ACM APSys 2024 [Publicity Chair]
ACM IoT 2023 [Program Committee Chair]
ACM SIGCOMM 2023 [Publicity Chair]
ACM MobiSys 2023 [Sponsorship Chair]
ACM/IEEE SEC 2023 [Best Paper Committee]
EU Marie Curie APROPOS ITN Workshop 2023 [General Chair]
ACM SIGCOMM 2022 [Publicity Chair]
ACM IoT 2022 [Workshop Program Chair]
ACM SIGCOMM 2021 [Virtual Experience Chair, SRC Committee]
ACM UbiComp 2021 [Finance Chair]
ACM CoNEXT 2021 [Publication Chair]
ACM HotNets 2021 [Publicity Chair]
IEEE World Forum on IoT 2021 [Special Session Chair]
ACM MobiSys 2020 [Finance Chair, Poster Award Committee]
ACM MobiCom 2020 [Travel Grant Chair]
ACM MobileHCI DatEthics 2020 [Program Committee Chair]
ACM MobiSys 2018 [Finance Chair]
IEEE INFOCOM HotPOST 2018 [Program Committee Chair]
IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2018 [Publicity Chair]
IEEE INFOCOM GI 2016 [Publicity Chair]
ACM MobiSys PhD 2014 [Program Committee Chair]
ACM UbiComp | Pervasive 2010 [Organizing Committee]

Program Committee (TPC)

IEEE INFOCOM 2025, London, UK
IEEE ICDCS 2025, Glasgow, Scotland UK
IEEE PerCom PerFail 2025, Washington DC, USA
ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2024, Singapore
ACM CoNEXT 2024, Los Angeles, USA
IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada
ACM MobiSys NetAISys 2024, Tokyo, Japan
IEEE PerCom PerFail 2024, Biarritz, France
ACM CoNEXT 2023, Paris, France
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2023, Wilmington, USA
ACM MobiSys NetAISys 2023, Helsinki, Finland
ACM/IEEE SEC Trustworthy Edge Computing 2023, Wilmington, USA
IEEE PerCom PerFail 2023, Atlanta, USA
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2022, Seattle, USA
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2022, Paphos, Cyprus
IEEE IC2E 2022, California, USA
IEEE/IFIP WONS 2022, Oppdal, Norway
IFIP Networking 2022, Catania, Italy
ACM/IEEE SEC Trustworthy Edge Computing 2022, Seattle, USA
IEEE PerCom PerFail 2022, Pisa, Italy
ACM SIGCOMM SRC 2021, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ACM CoNEXT 2021, Munich, Germany
ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2021, San Jose, USA
IFIP Networking 2021, Helsinki, Finland
IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC) 2021, Melbourne, Australia
ACM/IEEE SEC Trustworthy Edge Computing 2021, San Jose, USA
ACM MobiCom Poster SRC 2020, London, UK
ACM SIGCOMM SPIN 2020, New York, USA
IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland
IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2020, Austin, USA
IEEE ICDCS NMIC 2020, Singapore
IEEE CSCN 2019, Granada, Spain
IEEE NetSys 2019, Munich, Germany
ACM CoNEXT ENCP 2019, Orlando, USA
IEEE INFOCOM HotSALSA 2019, Paris, France
IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2019, Kyoto, Japan
IEEE ICDE DASC 2019, Macau SAR
IEEE IPDPS BDDMC 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IEEE CSCN 2018, Paris, France
ACM SIGCOMM MECOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2018, Crete, Greece
IEEE ICPADS 2018, Singapore
IJCAI AI4IoT 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
ISOC NDSS DISS 2018, San Diego, USA
EAI MobiCASE 2018, Osaka, Japan
ACM SIGCOMM MobiArch 2017, Los Angeles, USA
ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2017, Seoul, South Korea
IEEE ICDCS HotPOST 2017, Atlanta, USA
IJCAI AI4IoT 2017, Melbourne, Australia
Springer Nature HotSpatial 2017, Beijing, China
Springer Nature ICA3PP 2017, Helsinki, Finland
IFIP Networking 2016, Vienna, Austria
ACM CoNEXT 2015 (Shadow TPC), Heidelberg, Germany
ACM EuroSys 2015 (Shadow TPC), Bordeaux, France

Journal Referee

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TOCCN)
IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (IEM)
IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)
IEEE Network (NETMAG)
IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)
IEEE Pervasive Computing (PC)
IEEE Communications Letters (CL)
IEEE Access
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR)
Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks (COMNET)
Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications (COMCOM)
Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC)
Springer Nature Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
Springer Nature Journal on Wireless Networks (WINE)
Open Transactions on Communication Systems (OTCS)
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN)

Community Consolidation

Chair of FCN Workshop 2025, Hamburg, Germany

Chair of NWO flagship ICT.OPEN Responsible Digital Society 2024, Netherlands

Chair of FCN Workshop 2024, Hanover, Germany

Chair of FCN Workshop 2023, Helsinki, Finland

Chair of FCN Workshop 2022, TU Delft, Netherlands

Chair of FCN Workshop 2021, TU Delft, Netherlands

Chair of FCN Workshop 2020, TU Delft, Netherlands

Chair of FCN Workshop 2019, Beijing, China

Chair of FCN Workshop 2018, Shanghai, China

Chair of FCN Workshop 2017, Munich, Germany

Chair of FCN Workshop 2016, Helsinki, Finland

Chair of FCN Workshop 2015, Beijing, China

Founder of FCN Workshop 2014, Hong Kong SAR

Scholar Hosting

Prof. Henning Schulzrinne (Columbia University, USA), 2024

Prof. Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge, UK), 2024

Prof. Eve Schooler (University of Oxford, UK), 2024

Prof. Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin, Germany), 2024

Prof. Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany), 2023

Prof. Axel Jantsch (TU Vienna, Austria), 2023

Prof. Jari Nurmi (TUT, Finland), 2023

Prof. Pieter Simoens (Ghent-IMEC, Belgium), 2023

Prof. Atakan Aral (University of Vienna, Austria), 2023

Dr. Till Riedel (KIT, Germany), 2023

Prof. Mikkel Baun Kjargaard (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark), 2022

Prof. Maarten van Steen (University of Twente, NL), 2022

Prof. Andy Pimentel (University of Amsterdam, NL), 2022

Prof. Nirvana Meratnia (TU/e, NL), 2022

Prof. Madhusanka Liyanage (UC Dublin, Ireland), 2022

Dr. Tobias Meuser (TU Darmstadt, Germany), 2022

Prof. Constantinos Antoniou (TU Munich, Germany), 2018

Prof. Yang Chen (Fudan University, China), 2018

Prof. Dimitris Chatzopoulos (UC Dublin, Ireland), 2017

Prof. Chenren Xu (Peking University, China), 2017

Prof. Sasu Tarkoma (Helsinki University, Finland), 2016

Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK), 2015

Prof. Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China), 2014

Prof. Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom/HKUST, Germany), 2011, 2012, 2013

Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK), 2010

Prof. Luigi Beghi (Padova University, Italy), 2010

Prof. Glenn Luecke (ISU, USA), 2008

Professional Services

International and National

TU Munich Mentor Program (Mentor for Scientists), 2023 ~ present
Helsinki Alumni Ambassador, 2019 ~ present
Helsinki Mentor Program (Mentor for PhD), 2016 - 2018
Advising Committee for Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers, 2012 - 2016
Chair for Well-being Group of Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki, 2008 - 2016

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

IETF Global Design Team, 2013 - 2015
IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom), 2012 - 2013