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



Travel Logs

 2024

  • EU AIoTwin SmartEdge, Dubrovnik, Croatia     September
    - Invited Keynote on Future Computing
  • TECoSA Edge Computing Summit, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden     June
    - Invited Panelist by Prof. James Gross
  • Cloud Control Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden     June
    - Invited by Prof. Erik Elmroth
  • ACM EdgeSys 2024, Athens, Greece     April
    - Chairing EdgeSys 2024 with visual impressions
  • Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, NL       April
    - PhD Committee on Adolescent Healthcare, invited by Prof. Hein Raat
  • NWO ICT.OPEN, Utrecht, NL     April
    - Chairing ICT.OPEN Responsible Digital Society track and Invited Talk on Sustainable Edge AI
  • ACM/IEEE DATE Conference, Valencia, Spain     March
    - Invited Speaker on Trustworthy Edge AI
  • EU Horizon SPATIAL Consortium Symposium, Tartu, Estonia     March
    - Director of SPATIAL, hosted by University of Tartu
  • Erasmus University, Rotterdam, NL       February
    - Invited Panelist on AI technology transition, hosted by Prof. Jason Pridmore
  • The Netherlands Court of Audit, NEXT Delft, NL       February
    - AI safety infrastructure, hosted by Mondai
  • Nyenrode Executive MBA Programme, NEXT Delft, NL       January
    - Invited Lecturer on Edge AI for Nyenrode Executive MBA

 2023

  • 4TU.NIRICT Community Program, Utrecht, NL     December
    - Sustainable ICT
  • Munich Internet Research Retreat (MIR), Burghausen, Germany     November
    - Invited by Prof. Joerg Ott
  • Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany       October
    - Chairing Dagstuhl on Edge AI
  • ETH Systems Group, Zürich, Switzerland     September
    - Invited by Prof. Timothy Roscoe
  • University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland     September
    - Invited by Prof. Burkhard Stiller
  • University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland     September
    - Invited by Prof. Torsten Braun
  • University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland     September
    - Invited by Prof. Simon Mayer
  • SURF Workshop on Distributed and Multi-agent Systems, Utrecht, NL     August
    - Invited by Prof. Maarten van Steen
  • Lorentz Workshop on Future Computing, Leiden, NL     July ~ August
    - Chairing for "Future Computing for Digital Infrastructures" with visual impressions
  • EU APROPOS, X-Building Delft, NL     June
    - Chairing APROPOS School with visual impressions
  • FCN 2023, Helsinki, Finland       June
    - Chairing FCN 2023 with visual impressions
  • Oude Lutherse Kerk, Amsterdam, NL     May
    - Prof. Andy Pimentel Inaugural Lecture
  • ACM EdgeSys 2023, Rome, Italy     May
    - Chairing EdgeSys 2023 with visual impressions
  • NWO ICT.OPEN, Utrecht, NL     April
    - SPATIAL and Accountable AI for Healthcare
  • EU Horizon SPATIAL Consortium Symposium, Barcelona, Spain     February
    - Director of SPATIAL, hosted by Telefonica

 2022

  • Nyenrode Executive MBA Programme, RoboHouse Delft, NL       December
    - Invited Speaker on Edge AI for Nyenrode NICP
  • Next Delft, Delft, NL       December
    - Edge AI talk at Mondai House of AI
  • FCN 2022, Delft, Netherlands       November
    - Chair of FCN and workshop photos
  • ACM IoT 2022, Delft, Netherlands     November
    - Chair of Workshop Program for ACM IoT
  • IMT Atlantique, Rennes, France       October
    - Invited Talk, hosted by Prof. Marc-Oliver Pahl
  • EU Marie Curie APROPOS Workshop, Valencia, Spain     September
    - Invited Talk on Edge Computing and EU Funding Programmes, hosted by UPV
  • EU Horizon SPATIAL Consortium Symposium, Berlin, Germany     September
    - Director of SPATIAL, hosted by Fraunhofer FOKUS
  • IETF 114, Philadelphia (Online)       July
    - 114th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force
  • EU PPS Event, Brussels, Belgium     June ~ July
    - Invited as Director of EU Horizon SPATIAL Project
  • ACM EdgeSys 2022, Rennes, France     April
    - Co-Chair of EdgeSys with Volker Hilt (Bell Labs Director)
  • University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany       February
    - Invited Talk, hosted by Prof. Olaf Landsiedel
  • University of Oregon, Oregon, USA       January
    - Invited Colloquium Talk, hosted by Prof. Lei Jiao

 2021

  • ACM SIGCOMM CoNEXT 2021, Virtual Event, Germany       December
    - Chair of Publications and Panelist of Workshop
  • FCN 2021, Virtual Event, Netherlands       December
    - Chair of FCN
  • IEEE TPS 2021, Virtual Event, USA       December
    - Vision Track Panelist on Trustworthy and Sustainable Edge AI
  • ACM SIGCOMM HotNets 2021, Cambridge, UK       November
    - Chair of Publicity
  • IETF 112, Online       November
    - 112th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force
  • EU Marie Curie ITN Workshop, Tampere, Finland       October
    - Supervisory Board Meeting [online]
  • ACM UbiComp 2021, Virtual Event, Global       September
    - Co-Chair of Finance
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual Event, USA       August
    - Co-Chair of Virtual Experience
  • Dagstuhl Seminar, Wadern, Germany       August
    - Chairing Dagstuhl on Edge AI [hybrid]
  • IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, New Orleans, USA     July
    - Invited Speaker on Sustainable and Trustworthy Edge AI [online]
  • IETF 111, Online       July
    - 111th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Lorentz Workshop, Leiden, NL       June
    - Chairing "Beyond the Mobile-Cloud Computing Paradigm" [online] - awarded 4TU NIRICT Grant
  • ACM EdgeSys 2021, Edinburgh, UK     April
    - Co-Chair for EdgeSys [online]
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden     April
    - Invited Talk on Edge AI, hosted by Swedish Center of Edge Computing [online]
  • IETF 110, Online       March
    - 110th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force

 2020

  • ACM MobileHCI 2020, Oldenburg, Germany     October
    - Co-Chair for DatEthics [online]
  • ACM MobiCom 2020, London, UK     September
    - Co-Chair of Travel Grant for MobiCom [online]
  • FCN 2020, Delft, Netherlands     August
    - Chair of FCN [online]
  • ACM MobiSys 2020, Toronto, Canada     June
    - Chair of Finance and Poster Award Committee for MobiSys [online]
  • ACM EdgeSys 2020, Crete, Greece     April
    - Co-Chair for EdgeSys [online]
  • IEEE 6G Wireless Summit, Levi, Finland     March
    - Invited Speaker on Edge AI for 6G [online]
  • Dutch 5G Agenda Meeting, The Hague, Netherlands     February
    - Invited Talk on 5G Edge Infrastructure, hosted by TNO
  • EIT Digital, Delft, Netherlands     January
    - Invited Talk on Edge AI for IoT

 2019

  • Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany     December
    - Hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott
  • IETF 106, Singapore       November
    - 106th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force
  • ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands     October
    - Internet Measurement Conference
  • Round Table Event, The Hague, Netherlands     October
    - Hosted by HSD and ITRI
  • World Port Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands     September
    - Hosted by Port of Rotterdam
  • ICTRS 2019, Rhodes, Greece     September
    - Ethical Hacking for IoT
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2019, Beijing, China       August
    - Flagship Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
  • FCG Workshop 2019, Tsinghua, Beijing, China     August
    - Co-Chair of FCN at Tsinghua and workshop photos
  • Mobile Privacy and Surveillance Workshop, Rotterdam, Netherlands     June
    - Hosted by Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Maryland and University of Wisconsin
  • CompSys 2019, Kaap Doorn, Netherlands     June
    - CompSys Keynote on Edge Computing
  • Dagstuhl Seminar, Wadern, Germany       May
    - Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
  • IETF 104, Prague, Czech Republic       March
    - 104th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force
  • ACM EdgeSys 2019, Dresden, Germany     March
    - Co-Chair of EdgeSys
  • Symposium on SHARED Cities, Leiden, Netherlands     January
    - Hosted by Leiden Delft Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities

 2018

  • CyberSec Event, The Hague, Netherlands     November
    - Hosted by NWO
  • Telefónica Research, Barcelona, Spain     October
    - Hosted by Dr. Ilias Leontiadis
  • Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany     September
    - Hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott
  • Munich Internet Research Retreat (MIR), Burghausen, Germany     September
    - Hosted by TUM, NetApp, and Swisscom
  • FCG Workshop, Shanghai, China     September
    - Co-Chair of workshop at Tongji
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands     July
    - Master Graduation Event
  • ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany     June
    - Keynote at MobiSys PhD Forum
  • ACM EdgeSys 2018, Munich, Germany     June
    - Co-Chair of EdgeSys
  • University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland     February
    - Invited Talk on Edge Computing and Security
  • Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark     January
    - Invited Talk on IoT Edge Security

 2017

  • RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany     December
    - Hosted by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK     November
    - Hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft and Dr. Richard Mortier
  • Queen Mary University of London, London, UK     November
    - Invited Talk, hosted by Prof. Steve Uhlig
  • Connected Mobility Seminar, Frauenchiemsee, Germany     October
    - Postgraduate Retreat
  • FCG Workshop 2017, Munich, Germany     September
    - Co-Chair of workshop at TUM and workshop photos
  • SyMLab, HKUST, Hong Kong     July
    - Hosted by Prof. Pan Hui
  • Promotion Conferment, Helsinki, Finland     May
    - Hosted by University of Helsinki

 2016

  • Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B), Garching, Germany     December
    - Invited Talk on Edge Computing
  • Munich Internet Research Retreat (MIR), Burghausen, Germany     November
    - Hosted by TUM and NetApp
  • Connected Mobility Seminar, Burghausen, Germany     October
    - Postgraduate Retreat
  • Dagstuhl Seminar, Wadern, Germany     August ~ September
    - Aware Machine-to-Machine Communication
  • Workshop on Mobile Services and Edge Computing, Helsinki, Finland     July
    - Co-Chair of workshop hosted by University of Helsinki and workshop photos
  • Dagstuhl Seminar, Wadern, Germany     July
    - Network Latency Control in Data Centres
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK     March
    - NetOS Group
  • Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany     January
    - Invited Talk at Chair of Connected Mobility

 2015

  • NFV Workshop, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany     October
    - Workshop on Network Function Virtualization
  • Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China     September
    - The 2nd Joint Workshop on Mobile Big Data and Networking
  • China Mobile, Beijing, China     September
    - Network Technology Group
  • Peking University, Beijing, China     September
    - Center for Energy-efficient Computing and Applications
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China     September
    - State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology
  • ACM MobiCom 2015, Paris, France     September
    - Flagship Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
  • IETF 93, Prague, Czech Republic       July
    - 93rd Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • IAB Workshop, ETH Zürich, Switzerland       January
    - Stack Evolution in a Middlebox Internet

 2014

  • Columbia University, New York, USA     September ~ December
    - Internet Real Time Lab (IRT), Computer Science Department
  • IETF 91, Honolulu, USA       November
    - 91st Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2014, Chicago, USA       August
    - Flagship Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
  • Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop, Hong Kong     July
    - The 1st Joint Workshop on Cloud and Mobile Computing
  • ACM MobiSys 2014, Bretton Woods, USA       June
    - Flagship SIGMOBILE Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
  • Open Innovation House, Espoo, Finland       March
    - HIIT Scientific Advisory Board Evaluation Meeting
  • Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, Germany       February
    - EU EIT SDN Meeting

 2013

  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom     June ~ December
    - Systems Research Group, Computer Laboratory
  • IAB Workshop, Cambridge, United Kingdom       December
    - Internet Technology Adoption and Transition
  • EIT SDN Workshop, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France       December
    - SDN in Mobile Networks
  • ACM SenSys 2013, Rome, Italy       November
    - Flagship SIGMOBILE Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2013, Hong Kong, China       August
    - Flagship Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
  • IETF 87, Berlin, Germany       July ~ August
    - 87th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom     July
    - Cambridge Systems and Networking Group
  • Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom     July
    - Large-scale Distributed Systems Group
  • IEEE SECON 2013, New Orleans, USA       June
    - 10th IEEE International Conference of Sensing, Communication, and Networking
  • IoT Week 2013, Helsinki, Finland       June
    - EU event on IoT technologies, Innovation, and Business
  • IETF 86, Orlando, USA       March
    - 86th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

 2012

  • ACM CoNEXT 2012, Nice, France       December
    - The 8th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
  • Deutsche Telekom Labs, Berlin, Germany    September ~ October
    - MADNet Mobile Data Offloading
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2012, Helsinki, Finland       August
    - Flagship Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication
  • TiViT IoT Sprint 2012, Tampere, Finland       August
    - Internet of Things
  • ACM EuroSys 2012, Bern, Switzerland       April
    - The European Conference on Computer System
  • IETF 83, Paris, France       March
    - 83th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

 2011

  • ACM Middleware 2011, Lisbon, Portugal       December
    - 12th International Middleware Conference
  • IETF 82, Taipei, Taiwan       November
    - 82nd Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom       August - September
    - PURSUIT Information Centric Networking
  • Aalto University, Espoo, Finland       June
    - EIT Cloud Computing
  • NODES event, Tallinn, Estonia       May
    - NODES PhD Seminar
  • IETF 80, Prague, Czech Republic       March - April
    - 80th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

 2010 and Before

  • IETF 79, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China       November 2010
    - 79th Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden       July 2010
  • CMS'2010, Linz, Austria       May - June 2010
    - 11th Joint IFIP TC6 and TC11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security
  • University of Munich, Germany       April 2010
  • MobiCom 2009, Microsoft Research, Beijing, China     September 2009
    - Flagship Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom     2009
    - Academic English for prospective PhD candidate, scholarship from University of Helsinki
  • Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Gothenburg, Sweden       March 2009
    - MiNEMA Winter School
  • University of Padova, Padova, Italy       December 2008
    - Research visit and invited talk
  • Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland       August 2008
    - ESF MiNEMA 17th Summer School on Telecommunications
  • Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark       July 2008
  • Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, Netherlands       July 2008
  • University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia       September 2007
  • University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom       July 2007
  • University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom       July 2007
    - Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES)
  • University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland       December 2006
  • Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland       September 2006