Awards, Grants and Honors

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." -- Mark Twain

EU H2020 Grant - Consortium Director, managing project budget of €5M, 2021-2024
EU Marie Curie ITN Grant - PI, total budget of €4M, 2020-2024
Associate Editor - ACM TIOT, 2021-
TU Delft Works Council Standing Committee, 2021-
TBM AI Grant - Healthcare AI, 2021-2023
Seeding Grants - TU Delft Safety Security Institute, 2020-2022
4TU Grant - Lorentz Workshop on Edge Computing, 2021
Award Committee of SRC - ACM SIGCOMM 2021
Invited Panelist - ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop, 2021
Invited Speaker - IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, USA, 2021
Invited Speaker - Swedish Center of Edge Computing (TECOSA), KTH, 2021
Best Paper Award - ACM SenSys CCIoT 2020
Title of Docent (Permanent) - University of Helsinki, 2020
Award Committee of Poster Demo - ACM MobiSys 2020
Editorial Board - MDPI MTI, 2020-
Invited Speaker on Edge AI - IEEE 6G Summit 2020
Best Paper Award - ACM EdgeSys 2019
Associate Editor - IEEE OJ-ITS, 2019-
Invited Keynote on Edge AI - CompSys 2019
"Humans of TU Delft" - TU Delta 2019
EC H2020 Cascading Personal Grant 2019
Best-in-Session Presentation Award - IEEE INFOCOM 2018
Invited Keynote on Edge Computing - ACM MobiSys PhD Forum 2018
Outstanding Journal Reviewer - Computer Communications (COMCOM) 2018
Infotec Grant - University of Oulu 2018
Representative of Scientific Staff for Faculty Evaluation - TU Munich 2017
International PostDoc Relocation Sponsorship - TU Munich 2016
Hecse PhD Grant - ACM MobiCom 2015
DoCS PhD Grant - Visit China Mobile, Tsinghua and Peking University 2015
ISOC Grant - ETH Zurich, Internet Architecture Board, IAB SEMI 2015
Best Paper Award - "Best of CCR", ACM SIGCOMM 2014
PhD Fellowship Grant - Helsinki Computer Science Department 2014
Columbia Visiting Scholar Programme 2014
Columbia Alumni - Permanent since 2014
Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2014
ACM SIGMOBILE Sponsorship - ACM MobiSys 2014
DoCS PhD Grant 2014
HIIT Academic Visit Grant 2014
Nokia Foundation Scholarship 2013
PhD Fellowship Grant - FIGS, Academy of Finland 2013
Cambridge Visiting Scholarship 2013
Cambridge Alumni - Permanent since 2013
Staff Member of The Year - Helsinki Computer Science Department 2013
Cover Story on ACATIIMI - Finnish National Magazine of Academy 2013
ACM UBICITEC Grant - ACM SenSys 2013
FIGS PhD Grant - ACM SIGCOMM 2013
FIGS PhD Grant - IEEE SECON 2013
HIIT Academic Visit Grant 2013
Nokia Foundation Scholarship 2012
PhD Fellowship Grant - FIGS, Academy of Finland 2012
Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2012
ACM SIGCOMM Grant - ACM CoNEXT 2012
ACM PhD Grant - ACM EuroSys 2012
FIGS PhD Grant - ACM SIGCOMM 2012
HIIT Academic Visit Grant 2012
Representative of PhD Students for HIIT Scientific Advisory Board Evaluation 2012
ACM PhD Grant - ACM Middleware 2011
FIGS PhD Grant - Cambridge PURSUIT 2011
Helsinki Chancellor's Grant 2010
Helsinki Computer Science International Grant 2009
Helsinki Computer Science International Grant 2008
European Science Foundation (ESF) MiNEMA Grant 2008
NODES sponsorship to University College London (UCL) UK 2007
Internship offer - Economic Commission for Europe, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007

Synopsis

Best paper awards and recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM EdgeSys, ACM SenSys CCIoT, IEEE INFOCOM
2007 ~ present: awarded EU Horizon grants as Principal Investigator circa €1.1M, as Consortium Director circa €5M
Prior 2007: consecutive 1st-class annual scholarships, municipal candidate for international Mathematics Olympiad competition, member of debate team, starting lineup Point Guard for high school basketball team (national champion school)