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

Google Scholar

Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl

Group Highlight

"The Principle of Science" -- Richard Feynman

I lead the Cyber Physical Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Engineering Systems and Services at TU Delft. Our lab focuses on Edge AI solutions for cyber-physical systems in smart health, energy and mobility domains through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research across science, engineering and design disciplines. The projects run by CPI Lab are at the intersection of distributed computing, data intelligence, networking and security. CPI Lab is affiliated with Cambridge NetOS Group, Columbia IRT Lab, 4TU Center for Resilience Engineering, Delft Power Web Institute, Delft Transport & Mobility Institute, Delft IoT Consortium, Delft Cyber Security Group, Delft AI DeMoS Lab, Helsinki NODES Lab, and TU Munich Connected Mobility Lab.

CPI Lab is always open to enthusiastic PhD, MSc students and post-doctoral scholars. Projects and funding are available. If you are interested, do not hesitate to contact me. Support for post-doctoral scholars is available via a number of fellowship schemes such as Marie Curie Fellowships. Just to remind the best way for students to join CPI is to participate in thesis projects & courses offered at TU Delft. For those interested in R&D at CPI, I strongly recommend the CPI guidelines.

Funding & Supports

Currently managing EU Horizon grants (€5M + €5.5M) as Consortium Director and PI, my research has been supported by generous funding and gifts from Nokia Foundation, EC Horizon 2020, Marie Curie ITN, EIT Digital, MRDH, TU Delft Safety and Security Institute, DAAD, Bavaria California Technology Center, TUM Global Incentive Fund, Academy of Finland, and Tekes. Numerous projects are in collaboration and supported by industrial partners including Nokia, Intel, Broadcom, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Telia, Deloitte, KPMG, EY, PostNL and F-Secure.

News & Awards

CPI won prestigious EU Marie Curie Grant of €1.5M as PI to innovate on 6G (2024-2028)

CPI won prestigious EU Marie Curie ITN of €4M as PI to innovate on Sustainable Edge AI (2020-2025)

CPI won EU Horizon Grant of €5M on Trustworthy Edge AI as scientific director and coordinator (2021-2024)

CPI successfully hosted ACM EdgeSys with Volker Hilt (Bell Labs Director)

CPI on Chairing Committee of Top-Tier ACM SIGCOMM, CoNEXT, UbiComp, MobiCom, MobiSys & HotNets

Dr. Wiebke Hutiri successfully defended her PhD with Cum Laude and joined SONY AI in Switzerland

Dr. Vittorio Cozzolino successfully defended his PhD and joined Huawei Research in Germany

Dr. Michael Haus successfully defended his PhD and joined Audi Headquarter in Germany

CPI won Best PhD Paper Award of TU Delft ESS

CPI won Postdoc Grant (2-year 150k) on Healthcare AI

CPI won Best Paper Award at ACM SenSys CCIoT

CPI awarded 4TU Grant for our Lorentz Workshop on Edge Computing

CPI awarded Seeding Grants for our projects iSafe, SecureLight and Infrarium

CPI successfully hosted FCN & ACM MobileHCI DatEthics

CPI sponsored ACM EWSN

CPI director featured on "Humans of TU Delft"

CPI director featured on "The Shift to the Edge" and "Hands-on Research"

Wiebke Toussaint awarded Mozilla Technology Fund for Fair EVA Project

Wiebke Toussaint awarded IEEE WIE Travel Grant for IEEE SCC

Wiebke Toussaint awarded Nokia Bell Labs internship, Cambridge, UK

Wiebke Toussaint awarded 2nd Prize at the global EdgeX Foundry Ideation Challenge

Wiebke Toussaint awarded ACM SIGKDD Travel Grant for ACM KDD

Ibbad Hafeez awarded Nokia Foundation Scholarship

Niket Agrawal awarded ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant for ACM CoNEXT

Mirjam van den Boogert awarded Cuperus Prize 2022 for her MSc project

Floor de Jonge joined PwC after winning Cum Laude for her MSc project

Michiel Huisman awarded Cum Laude for his MSc project at CPI

Nick Rakas joined ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam

Jakob Serlier accepted to CMU, Chicago, Columbia, now at Microsoft

CPI Members

Director

Aaron Ding

Principal Fellows

Marijn Janssen
Kornelis Blok (IPCC - Nobel Peace Prize '07)
Lori Tavasszy

Postdoc and Senior Researchers

Marcus Westberg: Trustworthy AI, EU H2020 SPATIAL Project
Michell Boerger: Explainable AI for IoT, EU Horizon SPATIAL Project
Sam Leroux: Adaptive ML, EU Marie Curie ITN APROPOS Project
Fakhra Jabeen: Safe AI for Healthcare, on TBM AI Project
Tanesh Kumar: Healthcare Edge AI, won prestigious Nokia Foundation Jorma Ollila Grant

PhD Researchers

Dewant Katare: approximate edge intelligence for self-driving services, TU Delft
Prachi Bagave: accountable AI for healthcare IoT, TU Delft
Reni Sulastri: trustworthy ML for FinTech, TU Delft
Syafira Auliya: responsible AI for privacy preservation, TU Delft
Cilia Baanstra: future cloud services, TU Delft
Leonardo Tonetto: mobile edge data analytics, with Jörg Ott, TU Munich
Ibbad Hafeez: IoT edge security, with Sasu Tarkoma, University of Helsinki
Mengying Zhou: energy efficient NetAI, with Yang Chen, Fudan University

Project | Teaching Assistants

Iris van der Wel
Maurus Enbergs
Lukas Balzasch
Sophian Beyerlein
Ivo Heikoop
Alexander Jansink
Daan van der Hoeven
Nikhil Daswani
Sophie Schaaf

MSc BSc Students

Jonathan Schmid (MSc honor track)
Jan-Mark Dannenberg (MSc MoT track)
Niklas Biermann (MSc MoT track)
Bob Warringa (MSc MoT track)
Hubert Bratek (MSc MoT track)
Yining Ren (MSc MoT track)
Tijn Sewandono (MSc MoT track)
Kevin Doan (MSc MoT track)
David Lensen (MSc CoSEM track)
Lukas Balzasch (MSc CoSEM track)
Kas Raaijman (BSc honor track)

Affiliated Members

Alumni & Whereabouts

Michael Haus: PhD of TU Munich, now at Audi Headquarter in Germany
Mirjam van den Boogert: MSc '22 of TU Delft, Cuperus Prize 2022, now at Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Den Haag
Floor de Jonge: Cum Laude MSc '21 of TU Delft, now at PwC in Rotterdam
Stefania Stoccuto: MSc '20 of TU Delft, now at Kubota Europe in Amsterdam
Jakob Serlier: BSc honor '20 of TU Delft, first CMU, accepted to Columbia, now at Microsoft
Parya Lotfi: BSc honor '20 of TU Delft, now CEO of DuckDuckGoose
Gianluca Limon: MSc '19 of TU Delft, first Deloitte, now at Hilti Corporation in Switzerland
Nick Rakas: MSc '19 of TU Delft, now at ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam

CPI Alumni Full List

Thesis Projects

Open Topics

Topic details

Selected Theses - completed at CPI

IT Architecture to Enable Value-based Healthcare (with PwC)
Edge-driven IoT Orchestration Framework for Collaborative Processing (with EWI)
Integration of Digital Interfaces in Outbound Logistics (with PostNL)
Vulnerability Management for IoT with Bug Bounty Programs and Responsible Disclosure (with Deloitte)
The Openness between IoT Platforms (with KPMG)
Edge Computing on the Rise: Analyzing the Potential of Edge Computing for IoT Applications (with EY)
A User Centered, Edge based Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Vehicles (with MAS)
Securing High Speed Data Center Communications (funded by H2020 SSICLOPS project)
A Platform for Safer and Smarter Networks (funded by Tekes CloSe project)
An SDN Platform for Traffic Offloading (funded by EIT SDN project)
Monitoring Service Chains in the Cloud (funded by Nokia VirNe project)
Aviqa: A VoIP Softphone for Analyzing Speech and Video Quality (funded by Ericsson)

CPI Guidelines

Research & Experiment

The shape of your problem - please check this before the first meeting

Methodology 101 - Scribbr

Data, Knowledge to Insight and Impact

Benchmarking crimes - Gernot Heiser

Pragmatics on PhD proposal - recommend before Go-or-No-Go meeting

Scientific Venues to Follow

ACM: SIGCOMM, MobiCom, UbiComp, SOSP, EuroSys, SenSys, MobiSys, CoNEXT, IMC
IEEE: INFOCOM, PerCom, ICDCS, ICNP, SECON
USENIX: OSDI, NSDI, ATC
Top Journals in Networking Systems

Best Papers

Career & Tips

You and Your Research + Video - master piece, period
How to do great research - Nick Feamster
Do you need a PhD? - Matt Welsh
PhD survive guide - what you may need

Hacking Path

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - a MUST read if you consider this path seriously
How to become a hacker - Eric S. Raymond
Craftsmanship - JOEL SPOLSKY

International Collaborators

University of Cambridge

Jon Crowcroft and Richard Mortier

Domain: Lightweight virtualization and edge computing

Columbia University

Henning Schulzrinne
Domain: Edge computing for smart infrastructure

Technical University of Munich

Jörg Ott
Domain: Edge computing and Internet of Vehicles (IoV)

University of Helsinki

Sasu Tarkoma
Domain: 5G, edge security, and mobile data analytics

Carnegie Mellon University

Kun Zhang
Domain: Transfer learning on sparse data

University of Oslo

Michael Welzl
Domain: Network standardization and NLP ML

University of Florida

Ahmed Helmy
Domain: Mobility and wireless data analytics

Aalto University

Jukka Manner
Domain: Networking and mobile measurement

Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam

Hein Raat
Domain: Edge AI for health/social care

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Jason Pridmore
Domain: E-Health AI privacy

University of California, Irvine

Ardalan Amiri Sani
Domain: Security in IoT sensing

University College Dublin

Madhusanka Liyanage
Domain: 5G and IoT services

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Xiang Su
Domain: IoT Edge consolidation

University of Tartu

Huber Flores
Domain: Mobile computing and offloading

University of Bern

Zhongliang Zhao
Domain: Edge computing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Drones

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Pan Hui
Domain: D2D trust ecosystem

Tsinghua University, Beijing

Yong Li
Domain: D2D communications

Peking University, Beijing

Chenren Xu
Domain: Visible light based edge communication

Fudan University, Shanghai

Yang Chen
Domain: Data analytics

Tongji University, Shanghai

Weixiong Rao
Domain: Transfer learning based edge analytics

Apple

Babak Alipour
Domain: Edge data analytics

Ericsson

Nicklas Beijar
Domain: Virtualization for IoT

Nokia Bell Labs

Volker Hilt
Domain: Edge Systems

Nordic Semiconductor

Jouni Korhonen
Domain: Mobile offloading

Telefónica

Nicolas Kourtellis
Domain: Fair and Severless Edge AI

Meta

Diego Perino
Domain: Approximate Edge AI

WithSecure

Samuel Marchal
Domain: IoT and Edge Security

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Nikolay Tcholtchev
Domain: Trustworthy Edge AI