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    LinkedIn  Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl

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Dr. Aaron Ding leads the Cyber Physical Intelligence (CPI) Lab as tenured Associate Professor at TU Delft and Associate Professor (permanent) in Computer Science at University of Helsinki. He has over 17 years top R&D practices in EU, Switzerland, UK and USA. Prior to TU Delft, he has worked at TU Munich with Jörg Ott, at University of Cambridge with Jon Crowcroft, at Columbia University with Henning Schulzrinne. He has sabbatical at ETH Zürich with Adrian Perrig and is mentored by topnotch inspirational scholars. His PhD is with Sasu Tarkoma (Helsinki) and Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge). Funded by the Nokia Foundation, vital part of his PhD programme is completed at University of Cambridge and Columbia University in New York.

Dr. Ding has supervised 100+ students and won EU grants (€5M + €5.5M) as Consortium Director and PI by leading a series of international and national R&D projects (H2020, Marie Curie ITN, German DAAD, EIT Digital, Tekes Finland) in tight collaboration with industrial companies of Nokia, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Broadcom, Telia, NEC, Telefónica and WithSecure. His research focuses on edge computing, edge AI, and data-driven IoT services. For contributing to mobile edge computing with 90+ peer reviewed publications, he received best paper awards & recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM EdgeSys, ACM SenSys CCIoT, IEEE INFOCOM. He is awarded the "Staff Member of the Year" in Computer Science at University of Helsinki. As co-founder, he initiated the FCN series to promote collaborations between top European and Asian research institutes, including Cambridge, Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan. He is the founder of ACM EdgeSys, Associate Editor for ACM TIOT, IEEE OJ-ITS, and Springer Nature Computing. He has served on the organizing and programme committees for prestigious conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, ACM UbiComp, ACM WWW, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiSys, ACM e-Energy, ACM/IEEE SEC, IEEE INFOCOM. Dr. Ding is a recipient of the esteemed Nokia Foundation Scholarship.

Updates

• Winning prestigious EU Marie Curie Grant on 6G Evolution as PI (4-year Grant 2024~2028)
• Winning Best Paper Award at IEEE CVPR MAT 2024
• Chairing top tier ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2024) in Rome
• Chairing flagship IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2025) in Helsinki
• Chair of FCN 2024 on Future Computing and Networking with Jan Rellermeyer in Hannover, Germany
• Chair of NWO flagship ICT.OPEN Responsible Computing 2024 with Paola Grosso in Utrecht
• Chair of ACM EdgeSys 2024 with Atakan Aral and Volker Hilt in Athens, Greece
• Chair of FCN series, global renowned Dagstuhl 2021+2023, Lorentz 2021+2023, for 4TU awarded Edge AI Roadmap
• Feature on Story of Science + PostNL (Nederlands) + Humans of TU Delft
• Grant Referee for EU CHIST-ERA, Canada NSERC, German Humboldt Foundation, Austria FFG, Swiss NSF
• Awarded €5M grant of EU Horizon on Trustworthy Edge AI as Director (scoring 14.5/15)
• Awarded €4M grant of EU Marie Curie ITN on Sustainable Edge AI as PI (scoring 98/100)
• Keynote Speaker at EU AIoTwin SmartEdge, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Keynote Speaker at ASCI CompSys, Kaap Doorn
• Invited Panelist at ACM CoNEXT Workshop with Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)
• Invited Speaker at ACM/IEEE DATE Conference, Valencia, Spain
• Invited Speaker at Swedish Center of Edge Computing (TECoSA) at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
• Best Paper Award of TU Delft ESS 2023
• Best Thesis Award at Cuperus Prize 2022
• Best Paper Award at ACM SenSys CCIoT 2020
• Best Paper Award at ACM EdgeSys 2019
• Best Presentation Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018
• Invited on Program Committee for top-tier ACM WWW'24, ACM CoNEXT'24,'23, IEEE INFOCOM '24, ACM SEC'23,'22,'21
• Invited on Chairing Committee for top-tier ACM SIGCOMM, MobiCom, UbiComp, CoNEXT, MobiSys, HotNets
• Invited on Editorial Board for ACM TIOT, IEEE OJ-ITS, and Springer Nature Computing
• Invited on Executive Committee for Power Web Institute of TU Delft

  Recent Publications

• [Edge AI] Trustworthy and Sustainable Edge AI with Marijn Janssen and Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge)
• [Edge AI] Approximate Edge AI for Autonomous Driving Services at IEEE COMST
• [Edge AI] Roadmap for Edge AI at ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
• [Edge AI] Bias Propagation in On-device Machine Learning at ACM TOSEM
• [Edge AI] Bias in Automated Speaker Recognition at ACM FAccT
• [Edge AI] Bias Detection on Edge for Autonomous Driving at ACM/IEEE SEC
• [Edge] Energy Efficient Offloading for AR Services at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
• [Edge] Revisiting Edge Computing Research at IEEE Internet Computing

Academic Interests

• Sustainable Future Computing and Infrastructure
• Trustworthy Edge Computing and Analytics (Edge AI)
• IoT Systems and Networking
• Protocol Design and Standardization

Academic Leadership

• Director: EU Horizon SPATIAL Project (€5M) on Trustworthy Edge AI
• Director: Cyber Physical Intelligence Lab, TU Delft
• Principal Investigator: EU Marie Curie ITN APROPOS (€4M) on Sustainable Edge AI
• Principal Investigator: EU Marie Curie ENSURE 6G (€1.5M) on 6G Evolution
• Editorial Board: Springer Nature Computing Associate Editor, 2024 ~ present
• Editorial Board: ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT) Associate Editor, 2021 ~ present
• Editorial Board: IEEE Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJ-ITS) Associate Editor, 2019 ~ present
• Founding Chair: ACM EdgeSys, 6+ years annually, since 2018
• Founding Chair: International FCN Series,10+ years annually, since 2014
• Chair: ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2024
• Chair: NWO ICT.OPEN Future Computing Track 2024
• Chair: ACM IoT Conference 2023
• Chair: Dagstuhl on Edge AI, 2023
• Chair: Lorentz on Future Computing for Digital Infrastructures, 2023
• Chair: Dagstuhl on Identifying Key Enablers in Edge Intelligence, 2021
• Chair: Lorentz on Beyond the Mobile-Cloud Computing Paradigm, 2021
• Chair: ACM MobileHCI DatEthics 2020
• Chair: IEEE INFOCOM HotPOST 2018
• Chair: ACM MobiSys PhD Forum 2014
• Chair: Helsinki Computer Science Wellbeing Group, 2008 - 2016
• Program Committee: ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• Program Committee: ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2024
• Program Committee: ACM CoNEXT 2021, 2023, 2024
• Program Committee: IEEE INFOCOM 2024
• Organizing Committee: ACM SenSys 2024
• Organizing Committee: ACM IoT 2022, 2023, 2024
• Organizing Committee: ACM SIGCOMM 2021, 2022, 2023
• Organizing Committee: ACM MobiSys 2018, 2020, 2023
• Organizing Committee: ACM UbiComp 2021
• Organizing Committee: ACM CoNEXT 2021
• Organizing Committee: ACM MobiCom 2020
• Executive Committee: TU Delft Power Web Institute, 2019 ~ present

 Full List of Commitment + Projects

Academic Practices

• TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands  -  NL #1 & EU Engineering #1
  • 2018 ~ present
  • Department of Engineering Systems and Services
  • Associate Professor (ius promovendi)
• TU Munich, Munich, Germany  -  DE #1 & EU Computer Science #1
  • 2016 ~ present
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Inaugural Fellow, Habitation Fellow, TUM Mentor
• University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland  -  FI #1 & Birthplace of Linux
  • 2007 ~ present
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Associate Professor (Permanent), Alumni Ambassador
• ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Visiting Professor, 2023
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Hosted by Adrian Perrig (Fellow of ACM + IEEE, Five IEEE Test-of-Time Awards)
• Columbia University, Manhattan, New York, USA
  • Nokia Foundation Scholar, 2014 - 2015
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Hosted by Henning Schulzrinne (Fellow of ACM + IEEE, Internet Hall of Fame, my PhD advisor at Columbia)
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • Nokia Foundation Scholar, 2013 - 2014
  • Department of Computer Science
  • Hosted by Jon Crowcroft (Fellow of ACM + IEEE + Royal Society, my PhD advisor at Cambridge)

 Mentorship Appreciation

Academic Visits

• ETH Systems Group, Zürich, Switzerland, 2023
  - hosted by Prof. Timothy Roscoe
• University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 2023
  - hosted by Prof. Burkhard Stiller
• University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2023
  - hosted by Prof. Torsten Braun
• TU Munich, Munich, Germany, 2019
  - hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019
  - hosted by Prof. Yong Li
• Telefónica, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
  - hosted by Dr. Ilias Leontiadis
• University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 2018
  - hosted by Prof. Xiang Su
• RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 2017
  - hosted by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2017
  - hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft and Prof. Richard Mortier
• University of London, London, UK, 2017
  - hosted by Prof. Steve Uhlig
• University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2016
  - hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft
• Peking University, Beijing, China, 2015
  - hosted by Prof. Chenren Xu
• China Mobile, Beijing, China, 2015
  - hosted by Dr. Hui Deng
• HKUST, Hong Kong SAR, 2014
  - hosted by Prof. Pan Hui
• Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, 2013
  - hosted by Dr. Paolo Costa
• Imperial College London, London, UK, 2013
  - hosted by Prof. Peter Pietzuch

 Academic Travel Traces

Advised Students

• Wiebke Hutiri (Delft): PhD Cum Laude, now at SONY AI in Zürich Switzerland
• Michael Haus (Munich): PhD, now Project Manager of Vehicular AI at Audi Headquarter in Germany
• Vittorio Cozzolino (Munich): PhD, now at Huawei Research in Munich Germany
• Mirjam van den Boogert (Delft): Cuperus Prize 2022, now at Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Den Haag
• Floor de Jonge (Delft): MSc distinction degree, now at PwC in Rotterdam
• Ernst de Groot (Delft): now at Coolblue in Amsterdam
• Nick Rakas (Delft): now at ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam
• Jakob Serlier (Delft): BSc honor, accepted by CMU and Columbia, now at Microsoft
• Parya Lotfi (Delft): BSc honor, now CEO of DuckDuckGoose
• Leonardo Tonetto (Munich): mobile data analytics, PhD at TU Munich
• Chaitanya Aggarwal (Munich): now at Nokia Bell Labs in Munich
• Yonghao Li (Helsinki): now at Nets Group in Helsinki -- check his product reviewed by The Verge

 Full List of Graduates

Awards and Honors

• Scientific Director & Consortium Coordinator for EU Horizon Grant of €5M
• Title of Docent (permanent) at University of Helsinki
• Nokia Foundation Scholarships
• Best Paper Award - IEEE CVPR MAT 2024
• Best Paper Award - TU Delft ESS 2023
• Best Thesis Award - Cuperus Prize 2022
• Best Paper Award - ACM SenSys CCIoT 2020
• Best Paper Award - ACM EdgeSys 2019
• Best Presentation Award - IEEE INFOCOM 2018
• Best Paper Award - ACM SIGCOMM "Best of CCR" (featured on ACM Computing Review), 2014
• Personal Grants by Nokia, EU H2020, Academy of Finland, TKTL
• TU Delft Story of Science and Humans of TU Delft
• Cover Story of ACATIIMI, national academia magazine of Finland
• "Staff Member of The Year" Award, University of Helsinki
• IRT Alumni at Columbia University
• NetOS Alumni at University of Cambridge

 Full List of Awards

Delft is Cool

After moving to Delft, my wife and I have discovered lots of fun here. Comparing to Munich and Helsinki (both we really love), Delft is cozy, discreet, artistic and culture dignifying. It features many bridges, river passages, and a soothing atmosphere, very much like Cambridge. While comparing with New York City, Delft is quiet and peaceful but of no less energy, thanks to all the young and entrepreneurial students in this famous university town.

Some of my photo collections:  Life at TU Delft