Prof. Aaron Ding - Habitation Fellow

Prof. Aaron Ding joined BMW Chair of Connected Mobility as an Inaugural Fellow, working with Prof. Jörg Ott since 2016.

Prof. Ding has over 18 years top R&D across EU, Switzerland, UK and USA. Besides as a tenure faculty with Ius Promovendi at TU Delft, he has worked at University of Cambridge with Professor Jon Crowcroft, at Columbia University in New York with Professor Henning Schulzrinne, with his sabbatical at ETH Zürich hosted by Professor Adrian Perrig. 

Prof. Ding is EU Horizon Coordinator and Marie Curie Principal Investigator. Focusing on interconnected Edge AI systems, he has won substantial EU grants (€5M+€5.5M) to lead a series of R&D projects in tight collaboration with industrial companies of Nokia, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Broadcom, Telia, NEC, Telefónica. He has supervised 100+ students and served as PhD examiner for many institutions including University of Cambridge, TU Munich, Aalto University, Rotterdam Erasmuc MC. For contributing to mobile edge computing with a dedicated book and 100+ peer reviewed publications, he has received best paper awards and recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM IoT, ACM EdgeSys, ACM SenSys CCIoT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CVPR MAT, and TU Delft. Besides "Staff Member of the Year" award at University of Helsinki, he is the founder of ACM EdgeSys, Associate Editor for ACM TIOT, IEEE ITS, and Springer Nature Journal on Computing. As co-founder, he initiated the FCN series to promote collaborations between top European and Asian institutes, including Cambridge, Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan. He has served on chairing and programme committee for prestigious conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM WWW, ACM UbiComp, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiSys, ACM CoNEXT, ACM SenSys, ACM e-Energy, ACM/IEEE SEC, IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE ICDCS. He is a recipient of the esteemed Nokia Foundation Personal Grants.

Homepage: https://sk-alg.tbm.tudelft.nl/aaron/