Aaron Ding, PhD

Director, and EU Horizon SPATIAL €5M
Senior Associate Professor (UHD1), TU Delft
Title of Docent, University of Helsinki
Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
Editorial Board, Springer Nature Computing

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Founder of ACM EdgeSys and FCN Series
Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl

Mentor for Life

 "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -- Isaac Newton

  • Paulien Herder: for reminding me all the best and beautiful things in academic life, especially amid tough dark times
  • Catholijn Jonker: for inspiring new and exciting directions to explore, like SPATIAL
  • Bart van Arem: for demonstrating alive how academic scholar can foster and uphold the community
  • Inald Lagendijk: for unveiling hidden norms, traps, and crucial blind spots in establishing leadership
  • Martijn Warnier: for showing the path to live and succeed in a multidisciplinary faculty
  • Cees de Laat: for illuminating different sides and shades of Dutch academia
  • Maarten van Steen: for cultivating exquisite taste of scholar lifestyle, with focus and pace

 Sincere Gratitude

I owe my whole life to these brilliant minds who encourage, endorse, and empower me to see the hope inside myself.