Aaron Yi DING, PhD

Assistant Professor, TU Delft
Adjunct Professor, University of Helsinki
Cyber-Physical Intelligence (CPI) Lab

Email: Aaron.Ding (at) tudelft.nl
Address: P.O. Box 5015, ESS, TU Delft
Jaffalaan 5, 2600GA Delft, Netherlands

Service Highlight

I have been contributing actively to various scientific communities in terms of peer reviewing, chairing, programme committee and volunteering. I value the opportunities to work with international scholars of different backgrounds and cultures. Along the way, I visit, host and collaborate with many distinguished colleagues across Europe, Asia, and North America.

As the co-founder of FCN series since 2014, I have been building and strengthening this international community to promote active collaborations between top European and Asian institutes, including Cambridge, Delft, Helsinki, Leuven, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Vienna, EPFL, MPI, IMDEA, HKUST, Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan, and Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).

Academic Services

Journal Editorship

Associate Editor for IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJ-ITS)
Editorial Board for MDPI Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI)

Research Agenda Leadership

Hosting Dagstuhl Seminar "Identifying Key Enablers in Edge Intelligence", 2021
Hosting Lorentz Workshop "Beyond the Mobile-Cloud Computing Paradigm", 2021
Founder & Co-Chair of ACM EdgeSys 2020, Crete, Greece
Founder & Co-Chair of ACM EdgeSys 2019, Dresden, Germany
Founder & Co-Chair of ACM EdgeSys 2018, Munich, Germany

Research Community Consolidation

FCN Workshop 2020, Delft, Netherlands
FCG Workshop 2019, Beijing, China
FCG Workshop 2018, Shanghai, China
FCG Workshop 2017, Munich, Germany
FCG Workshop 2016, Helsinki, Finland
Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop 2015, Beijing, China
Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop 2014, Hong Kong SAR

Conference Chairing and Organizing

Chair of Finance and Poster Demo Award Committee for ACM MobiSys 2020, Toronto, Canada
Co-Chair of Travel Grant for ACM MobiCom 2020, London, UK
Co-Chair for ACM MobileHCI Ethical Data-Centric Design 2020, Oldenburg, Germany
Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM EINSTEIN 2020, Beijing, China
Chair of Finance for ACM MobiSys 2018, Munich, Germany
Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM HotPOST 2018, Honolulu, USA
Chair of Publicity for IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2018, Athens, Greece
Chair of Publicity for IEEE INFOCOM GI 2016, San Francisco, USA
Co-Chair for ACM MobiSys PhD Workshop 2014, sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Brocade, USA
Organizing Committee for Pervasive 2010 (ACM UbiComp), Helsinki, Finland

Conference Technical Programme Committee (TPC)

TPC of Poster and SRC for ACM MobiCom 2020, London, UK
TPC for ACM SIGCOMM SPIN 2020, New York, USA
TPC for IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland
TPC for IEEE ICDCS NMIC 2020, Singapore
TPC for IEEE CSCN 2019, Granada, Spain
TPC for IEEE NetSys 2019, Munich, Germany
TPC for ACM CoNEXT ENCP 2019, Orlando, USA
TPC for IEEE INFOCOM HotSALSA 2019, Paris, France
TPC for IEEE PerCom PerCrowd 2019, Kyoto, Japan
TPC for IEEE ICDE DASC 2019, Macau SAR
TPC for IEEE IPDPS BDDMC 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
TPC for IEEE CSCN 2018, Paris, France
TPC for ACM SIGCOMM MECOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary
TPC for ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2018, Crete, Greece
TPC for IEEE ICPADS 2018, Singapore
TPC for IJCAI AI4IoT 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
TPC for ISOC NDSS DISS 2018, San Diego, USA
TPC for EAI MobiCASE 2018, Osaka, Japan
TPC for ACM SIGCOMM MobiArch 2017, Los Angeles, USA
TPC for ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop 2017, Seoul, South Korea
TPC for IEEE ICDCS HotPOST 2017, Atlanta, USA
TPC for IJCAI AI4IoT 2017, Melbourne, Australia
TPC for Springer HotSpatial 2017, Beijing, China
TPC for Springer ICA3PP 2017, Helsinki, Finland
TPC for IFIP Networking 2016, Vienna, Austria
Shadow TPC for ACM CoNEXT 2015, Heidelberg, Germany
Shadow TPC for ACM EuroSys 2015, Bordeaux, France

Journal Conference Reviewing

Journal Referee for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
Journal Referee for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
Journal Referee for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TOCCN)
Journal Referee for IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine (IEM)
Journal Referee for IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)
Journal Referee for IEEE Network (NETMAG)
Journal Referee for IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)
Journal Referee for IEEE Pervasive Computing (PC)
Journal Referee for IEEE Communications Letters (CL)
Journal Referee for IEEE Access
Journal Referee for ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR)
Journal Referee for Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks (COMNET)
Journal Referee for Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications (COMCOM)
Journal Referee for Elsevier Journal on Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC)
Journal Referee for Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC)
Journal Referee for Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
Journal Referee for Springer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINE)
Journal Referee for Open Transactions on Communication Systems (OTCS)
Journal Referee for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (JWCN)
Invited Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
Invited Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
Invited Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
Invited Reviewer for IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Invited Reviewer for IFIP Networking Conference (Networking)

Academic Hosting

Prof. Jason Pridmore (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), 2019

Prof. Michael Nagenborg (University of Twente, Netherlands), 2019

Prof. Lin Wang (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2019

Prof. Constantinos Antoniou (TU Munich, Germany), 2018

Prof. Yang Chen (Fudan University, China), 2018

Prof. Dimitris Chatzopoulos (HKUST, HK SAR), 2017

Prof. Chenren Xu (Peking University, China), 2017

Prof. Sasu Tarkoma (Helsinki University, Finland), 2016

Lic. Hannu Flinck (Nokia Bell Labs), 2016

Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK), 2015

Prof. Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China), 2014

Prof. Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom/HKUST, Germany), 2011, 2012, 2013

Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK), 2010

Prof. Luigi Beghi (Padova University, Italy), 2010

Prof. Glenn Luecke (ISU, USA), 2008

Keynotes and Invited Talks

6G Wireless Summit, Finland, 2020
- Invited Talk on Edge AI for 6G

Dutch 5G Agenda Meeting, The Hague, 2020
- Plenary Speaker on Beyond-5G Infrastructure

ACM ICTRS Conference, Rhodes, Greece, 2019
- Panel Speaker on Drone and IoT Services

CompSys Conference, Kaap Doorn, Netherlands, 2019
- Keynote on Edge Computing

Embedded and Networked Systems Lab, Delft, Netherlands, 2019
- invited by Dr. Marco Zuniga
- "Wireless Edge Analytics and Edge Offloading"

Distributed Systems Lab, Delft, Netherlands, 2019
- invited by Dr. Jan Rellermeyer
- "Edge Analytics and Offloading"

Telefónica Research, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
- invited by Dr. Ilias Leontiadis
- "Case Studies on Edge Analytics and Edge Offloading"

Transport Institute, Delft, Netherlands, 2018
- invited by Prof. Lóri Tavasszy
- "Edge Computing for Smart Transport Systems"

Delft Design for Values Institute, Delft, Netherlands, 2018
- invited by DDfV
- "IoT Privacy: By-design or After-design?"

Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2018
- invited by Prof. Weixiong Rao
- "Edge Computing for IoT Systems"

NAS Lab, Delft, Netherlands, 2018
- invited by Prof. Piet Van Mieghem
- "Edge Computing for IoT"

ACM MobiSys PhD Forum, Munich, Germany, 2018
- Keynote on "Riding on the Edge, the Fun, the Risks, and the Lessons"

Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
- invited by Prof. Jan Madsen
- "Edge and IoT Security for Cyber-Physical Systems"

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 2018
- invited by Dr. Xiang Su
- "Distributed Edge Computing and Security"

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 2017
- invited by Prof. Klaus Wehrle
- "Edge Computing and Security for Smart Cities"

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2017
- invited by Prof. Jon Crowcroft
- "Play it on the Edge: the Fun, the Risks, and the Lessons"

Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2017
- invited by Prof. Steve Uhlig
- "Lessons from Developing Edge Computing Systems"

TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, 2017
- invited by Prof. Marijn Janssen
- "Edge Architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems"

Zentrum Digitalisierung.Bayern (ZD.B), Garching, Germany, 2016
- invited by ZD.B
- "Edge Computing Ecosystem"

Dagstuhl Seminar on Aware Machine-to-Machine Communication, Wadern, Germany, 2016
- invited by Prof. Stephan Sigg
- "SoftOffload + Securebox: Toward Smarter and Safer Network Edge"

BMW Connected Mobility Lab at TUM, Munich, Germany, 2016
- invited by Prof. Joerg Ott
- "Mobile Data Offloading"

NFV Workshop, Hannover, Germany, 2015
- invited by Dr. Zhen Cao
- "SoftOffload: An Open-source Platform to Augment Mobile Offloading for 5G"

Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop, Beijing, China, 2015
- invited by Prof. Yong Li
- "Mobile Offloading for 5G"

Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop, Hong Kong, 2014
- invited by Prof. Pan Hui
- "Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for the Evolving 4G and Beyond"

IEEE SECON 2013 Internet of Things Workshop, New Orleans, USA, 2013
- invited by Prof. Harold Liu
- "Enabling Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones"

University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 2008
- invited by Prof. Luigi Beghi
- "Handover Security for Wireless Mobile Networks"

Research Visits

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2019
- hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2019
- hosted by Prof. Yong Li

Telefónica Research, Barcelona, Spain, 2018
- hosted by Dr. Ilias Leontiadis

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2018
- hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott

Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2018
- hosted by Prof. Weixiong Rao

University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 2018
- hosted by Dr. Xiang Su

RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, 2017
- hosted by Dr. Oliver Hohlfeld

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2017
- hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft and Dr. Richard Mortier

Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, 2017
- hosted by Prof. Steve Uhlig

HKUST SyMLab, Hong Kong, 2017
- hosted by Prof. Pan Hui

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2016
- hosted by Prof. Jon Crowcroft

Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, 2016
- hosted by Prof. Joerg Ott

Peking University, Beijing, China, 2015
- hosted by Prof. Chenren Xu

China Mobile, Beijing, China, 2015
- hosted by Dr. Hui Deng

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2015
- hosted by Dr. Pei Zhang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 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

Deutsche Telekom T-Labs, Berlin, Germany, 2012
- hosted by Prof. Pan Hui

University of Padova, Padova, Italy, 2008
- hosted by Prof. Luigi Beghi

Professional Services

International and National Communities

Executive Committee of TU Delft Power Web Institute, 2019 ~ present
TU Delft Works Council - Research & Education Committee, 2019 ~ present
Helsinki Alumni Ambassador, 2019 ~ present
Helsinki Mentor Program, 2016 - 2017
Advising Committee for Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers, 2012 - 2016
Co-Chair for Well-being Group of Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki, 2008 - 2016

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Board of IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals, 2016 - 2018
Executive Committee of IEEE Finland, 2014 - 2015

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

IETF Global Design Team, 2013 - 2015
IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom), 2012 - 2013