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
Invited Keynote - ACM CLOSER, 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 - KPN Royal Dutch Telecom on 6G Edge AI, 2024
Invited Speaker - ACM/IEEE DATE Conference on Trustworthy AI, 2024
Invited Speaker - Dutch Open Science Week on Ethical AI, 2024
Invited Speaker - Nyenrode Executive MBA Programme on Edge AI, 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)