Aaron Ding, PhD

Director, & H2020 SPATIAL (€5M)
Associate Professor (Ius Promovendi), TU Delft
Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on IoT
Editorial Board, IEEE Journal OJ-ITS
Editorial Board, Springer Nature Computing
Founder, ACM EdgeSys

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Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl



Awards, Grants and Honors

 "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -- Mark Twain

  • EU Marie Curie Grant - PI, budget €1.5M, 2024-2028
  • EU Marie Curie Grant - PI, budget €4M, 2020-2025
  • EU Horizon Grant - Consortium Coordinator and Scientific Director, budget €5M, 2021-2024
  • 4TU Grant - ICT for Energy Systems, 2024
  • Best Paper Award - IEEE CVPR MAT 2024
  • "Story of Science" - TU Delft, 2024
  • Invited Keynote - AIoTwin SmartEdge Summer School, 2024
  • Invited Panelist - TECoSA Edge Computing Summit, 2024
  • Invited Speaker - ACM/IEEE DATE Conference, 2024
  • Invited Speaker - Nyenrode Executive MBA Programme, 2024
  • Invited Speaker - Delft Green Week on Sustainable AI, 2024
  • TBM AI Grant - Healthcare Safe AI, 2022-2023
  • TU Delft SFP Grants - Safety Security Institute, 2020-2023
  • Sabbatical Grant - ETH Zürich, 2023
  • Healthy Start Grant - TU Delft EUR EMC Convergence, 2023
  • Representative of Tenured Staff - TU Delft Faculty Evaluation, 2023
  • Best Paper Award - TU Delft ESS 2023
  • Best Paper Runner Up - ACM IoT 2023
  • Best Thesis Award - Cuperus Prize 2022
  • Invited Speaker - Nyenrode Executive MBA Programme, 2022
  • Invited Speaker - Cyber CNI Series, ACM Germany, 2022
  • Invited Speaker - KuVS AINet Summer School, University of Ulm, Germany, 2022
  • Invited Speaker - University of Oregon, USA, 2022
  • 4TU Grant - Lorentz Workshop on Edge Computing, 2021
  • Award Committee - ACM SIGCOMM SRC 2021
  • Invited Panelist - ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2021
  • Invited Speaker - IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, USA, 2021
  • Invited Speaker - Swedish Center of Edge Computing (TECOSA), KTH, 2021
  • Best Paper Award - ACM SenSys CCIoT 2020
  • Title of Docent (Permanent) - University of Helsinki, 2020
  • Award Committee - ACM MobiSys Poster Demo 2020
  • Invited Speaker on Edge AI - IEEE 6G Summit 2020
  • Best Paper Award - ACM EdgeSys 2019
  • Invited Keynote on Edge AI - CompSys 2019
  • "Humans of TU Delft" - TU Delta 2019
  • EU H2020 Cascading Personal Grant 2019
  • Best-in-Session Presentation Award - IEEE INFOCOM 2018
  • Invited Keynote on Edge Computing - ACM MobiSys PhD Forum 2018
  • Outstanding Journal Reviewer - Computer Communications (COMCOM) 2018
  • Infotec Grant for Invited Lecture - University of Oulu 2018
  • Representative of Scientific Staff - Faculty Evaluation of TU Munich 2017
  • International PostDoc Relocation Grant - TU Munich 2016
  • Hecse PhD Grant - ACM MobiCom 2015
  • DoCS PhD Grant - Visit China Mobile, Tsinghua and Peking University 2015
  • ISOC Grant - ETH Zürich, Internet Architecture Board, IAB SEMI 2015
  • Best Paper Award - ACM SIGCOMM Best of CCR 2014
  • PhD Fellowship Grant - Helsinki Computer Science Department 2014
  • Columbia Visiting Scholar Appointment 2014
  • Columbia Alumni - Permanent since 2014
  • Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2014
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Sponsorship - ACM MobiSys 2014
  • DoCS PhD Grant 2014
  • HIIT Academic Grant 2014
  • Nokia Foundation Personal Grant 2013
  • PhD Fellowship Grant - FIGS, Academy of Finland 2013
  • Cambridge Visiting Scholar Appointment 2013
  • Cambridge Alumni - Permanent since 2013
  • Staff Member of The Year Award - Helsinki Computer Science Department 2013
  • Cover Story on ACATIIMI - Finnish National Magazine of Academy 2013
  • ACM UBICITEC Grant - ACM SenSys 2013
  • FIGS PhD Grant - ACM SIGCOMM 2013
  • FIGS PhD Grant - IEEE SECON 2013
  • HIIT Academic Grant 2013
  • Nokia Foundation Personal Grant 2012
  • PhD Fellowship Grant - FIGS, Academy of Finland 2012
  • Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2012
  • ACM SIGCOMM Grant - ACM CoNEXT 2012
  • ACM PhD Grant - ACM EuroSys 2012
  • FIGS PhD Grant - ACM SIGCOMM 2012
  • HIIT Academic Grant 2012
  • Representative of PhD for HIIT Scientific Advisory Board Evaluation 2012
  • Representative of PhD for Helsinki Faculty of Science Evaluation 2011
  • ACM PhD Grant - ACM Middleware 2011
  • FIGS PhD Grant - Cambridge PURSUIT 2011
  • Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2010
  • Helsinki Computer Science International Grant 2009
  • Helsinki Computer Science International Grant 2008
  • European Science Foundation (ESF) MiNEMA Grant 2008
  • NODES Grant to University College London 2007
  • Internship offer - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007

 Synopsis

  • Best paper awards & recognition: ACM SIGCOMM, ACM EdgeSys, ACM IoT, ACM SenSys, IEEE INFOCOM, TU Delft
  • 2007 ~ present: Awarded EU Horizon grants €5M+€5.5M as Consortium Director and Marie Curie Principal Investigator
  • Prior 2007: Consecutive 1st-class annual scholarships, municipal candidate for international Mathematics Olympiad competition, member of debate team, starting lineup Point Guard for high school basketball team (national champion school)