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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Aaron Yi DING

Aaron is a Project Lead and Postdoc Associate (5-year Appointment) at the BMW-endowed Chair of Connected Mobility in TU Munich, working with Prof. Jörg Ott since 2016. He has over 10 years of R&D work experience in EU, UK and USA. He is currently mentored by the NetApp Technical Director Dr. Lars Eggert, Huawei CTO Dr. Dirk Kutscher, and Prof. Bernd Radig at TUM. He obtained his MSc and PhD both with distinction from the University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science (Birthplace of Linux). His PhD was supervised by Prof. Sasu Tarkoma (Head of Computer Science Department) at University of Helsinki and Prof. Jon Crowcroft at University of Cambridge.

Aaron's research focuses on mobile edge computing, IoT security, and system networking. Prior to TUM appointment, he's employed by University of Helsinki as Postdoc, PhD and project researcher, respectively. He has been working at the Columbia University of Ivy League (New York, USA) in 2014, advised by Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, and also at the University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK) in 2013 under Prof. Jon Crowcroft. He is awarded the ACM SIGCOMM "Best of CCR 2014" and three-year PhD fellowships (2012-2014) from the Academy of Finland and University of Helsinki. He is a two-time recipient of the highly competitive Nokia Foundation Scholarships in 2012 and 2013, and awardee of the “Staff Member of the Year” by the Department of Computer Science at University of Helsinki. Aaron has received ACM grants from CoNEXT, MobiSys, EuroSys, SenSys, and Middleware.

As a member of ACM, IEEE and IETF, Aaron Co-Chaired the ACM MobiSys PhD Workshop, serves on the Board of IEEE ComSoc YP (04.2016-present) and Executive Committee of IEEE Finland (01.2014-12.2015). He has been serving on IETF Global Design Team and IAB NomCom, responsible for nominating and selecting IETF leadership. Besides as Publicity Chair for IEEE INFOCOM GI '16, he serves on TPC for ACM MobiArch '17, HotPOST '17, HotSpatial '17, IFIP Networking '16 and Shadow TPC for ACM CoNEXT ’15 and ACM EuroSys ’15. He is also the co-founder and co-chair of Finland-China-Germany workshop, striving to strengthen collaborations with top European and Chinese universities, including Cambridge, Munich, Helsinki, Tsinghua, and Peking University.

 

Updates:

New Accepted Papers:

Working Papers:

  • Lightweight Virtualization for IoT Edge Computing, with Ericsson
  • Secure IoT Edge Networks with Fuzzy Clustering, with HIIT
  • IoT SDN Integration, with SICS
  • Integrated Mobility-Traffic Modeling, with U. Florida
  • Practical Service Function Chaining, with Nokia Bell Labs

Travel Agenda

Academic Appointments:

"The Principle of Science" -- Richard Feynman

Research Interests:

 "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research." -- Albert Einstein

  • Mobile Edge Computing and Communication
  • IoT Security and Privacy
  • Transport Security for High Speed (40G/100G) Networks
  • Protocol Design and Standardization

Projects:

Projects prior 2016

Selected Publications:

 "Originality, Significance, Rigour - pick 3." -- Jon Crowcroft

  • "Security and Privacy in Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication: A Review", IEEE Communications Surveys 2017  *corresponding author  [BibTeX - PDF]  #1 Impact in Telecommunications
  • "Managing IoT at the Edge: The Case for BLE Beacons", ACM MobiCom SmartObjects 2017  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "IOTURVA: Securing Device-to-Device (D2D) Communication in IoT Networks", ACM MobiCom CHANTS 2017  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "FADES: Fine-Grained Edge Offloading with Unikernels", ACM SIGCOMM HotConNet 2017  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Securebox: Toward Safer and Smarter IoT Networks", ACM CoNEXT CAN 2016  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Vision: Augmenting WiFi Offloading with An Open-source Collaborative Platform", ACM MobiCom MCS 2015  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Reflections on Middlebox Detection Mechanisms in IPv6 Transition", IAB SEMI 2015  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Bridging the Gap Between Internet Standardization and Networking Research", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) 2014  [BibTeX - PDF]  SIGCOMM Best of CCR Award
  • "Software Defined Networking for Security Enhancement in Wireless Mobile Networks", Computer Networks 2014  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Enabling Energy-Aware Collaborative Mobile Data Offloading for Smartphones", IEEE SECON 2013  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Toward Network Controlled IP Traffic Offloading", IEEE Communications Magazine 2013  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Effect of Competing TCP Traffic on Interactive Real-Time Communication", PAM 2013  [BibTeX - PDF]
  • "Speeding up IPv6 Transition: Discovering NAT64 and Learning Prefix for IPv6 Address Synthesis", IEEE ICC 2012  [BibTeX - PDF]

Full publication list and Google Scholar

Selected Awards and Honors:

  • Best Paper Award - ACM SIGCOMM "Best of CCR" 2014
  • "Staff Member of The Year" Award - Computer Science Department, Univ. Helsinki, 2013
  • Nokia Foundation Scholarships (10k euro), 2012 and 2013 *
  • PhD Fellowships (60k) - Academy of Finland and Univ. Helsinki, 2012 -- 2014
  • Chancellor's Grants (4k) - Univ. Helsinki, 2010, 2012, 2014
  • Columbia IRT Alumni, since 2014
  • Cambridge NetOS Alumni, since 2013
  • ACATIIMI Cover Story - the national magazine of Finnish academy, 2013
  • ISOC Grant - IAB SEMI at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Hecse Grant - ACM MobiCom at Paris, France
  • FIGS Grant - ACM SIGCOMM at Chicago, USA
  • SIGMOBILE Sponsorship - ACM MobiSys at Bretton Woods, USA
  • SIGCOMM Grant - ACM CoNEXT at Nice, France
  • UBICITEC Grant - ACM SenSys at Rome, Italy
  • SIGOPS Grant - ACM EuroSys at Bern, Switzerland
  • USENIX Grant - ACM Middleware at Lisbon, Portugal
  • Full list

 * Nokia Foundation Scholarship can be granted at most 2 times to the same person

Research Visits and Hosting:

Visits

  • HKUST SyMLab, Hong Kong (07.2017) - hosted by Prof. Pan Hui
  • University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (03.2016) - invited by Prof. Jon Crowcroft
  • Peking University, Beijing, China (09.2015) - hosted by Prof. Chenren Xu
  • China Mobile, Beijing, China (09.2015) - hosted by Dr. Hui Deng
  • Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (09.2015) - hosted by Dr. Pei Zhang
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (07.2014) - hosted by Prof. Pan Hui
  • Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK (07.2013) - hosted by Dr. Paolo Costa
  • Imperial College London, London, UK (07.2013) - hosted by Prof. Peter Pietzuch
  • Deutsche Telekom Labs, Berlin, Germany (10.2012) - hosted by Prof. Pan Hui
  • University of Padova, Padova, Italy (12.2008) - hosted by Prof. Luigi Beghi

Hosting

  • Prof. Sasu Tarkoma (Helsinki University, Finland), 2016
  • Lic. Hannu Flinck (Nokia Bell Labs), 2016
  • Prof. Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University, UK), 2010 and 2015
  • Prof. Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China), 2014
  • Prof. Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom/HKUST, Germany), 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Prof. Luigi Beghi (Padova University, Italy), 2010
  • Prof. Glenn Luecke (ISU, USA), 2008

Supervised Students:

  • Thomas Paul: at TU Munich, working on transport security for QUIC
  • Ibbad Hafeez: at University of Helsinki, awarded 4-year PhD scholarships (2017-2020)
  • Yanhe Liu: now at Sina Weibo Beijing, the dominant online social networks (aka Facebook) in China
  • Lauri Suomalainen: now at Nebula Helsinki, working on NFV
  • Emad Nikkhouy: at ICE AB/GmbH Berlin, working on NFV
  • Noora Joensuu: at Softability Helsinki
  • Tomi Ronimus: at HiQ Helsinki, one of the most historic companies in Finnish IT sector
  • Peng Liu: at Tuxera Helsinki, working on smarthome multimedia systems
  • Yonghao Li: at a cool startup company (check the review from The Verge)

Supervised Theses:

  • "A Platform for Safer and Smarter Networks", funded by CloSe Project
  • "Securing High Speed Data Center Communications - A Measurement Study", funded by SSICLOPS project
  • "Monitoring Service Chains in the Cloud", funded by Nokia VirNe project
  • "An SDN Platform for Traffic Offloading", funded by EIT SDN project
  • "Aviqa: A VoIP Softphone for Analyzing Speech and Video Quality", funded by Ericsson

Teaching:

  • Master Seminar: Edge Computing and Communication, TUM, 2017
  • Do-It-Yourself Networking, Advanced Practical Course, TUM, 2016
  • Protocol Design, TUM, 2016
  • Pro-Seminar: Internet for All, TUM, 2016
  • University of Helsinki Pedagogy Training - "Practical Teaching Skills", 2015
  • University of Helsinki Pedagogy Training - "Effective Small Group Teaching", 2014
  • Network Programming (in C, Linux & Unix), UH, 2013

Software Implementations:

  • SoftOffload: Open Platform for Mobile Offloading
  • MADNet: Energy-aware offloading for smartphones
  • Linux kernel and P-GW/GGSN modules for NAO
  • GNU C library implementation for NAT64/DNS64 heuristic discovery and address prioritization
  • DNS BIND9 patch for EDNS0 IPv6 address synthesis extension
  • Linux netlink patch for IPv6 address label manipulation
  • ns-2 modules for EAP fast authentication protocol
  • Virtualization-based migration framework for flexible on-demand VoIP services

Link to source code repositories

Academic Services:

  • Co-Chair for ACM MobiSys '14 PhD Workshop (sponsored by Google, Microsoft, Brocade), USA
  • Co-Chair for Finland-China-Germany Workshop '17, Munich, Germany
  • Co-Chair for Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop '16, Helsinki, Finland
  • Organizing Chair for Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop '15, Beijing, China
  • Organizing Chair for Helsinki-HKUST-Tsinghua Workshop '14, Hong Kong
  • Publicity Chair for IEEE PerCom PerCrowd '18, Athens, Greece
  • Publicity Chair for IEEE INFOCOM GI '16, San Francisco, USA
  • Local Organizer for Pervasive '10 (ACM UbiComp), Helsinki, Finland
  • Technical Program Committee for IEEE PerCom PerCrowd '18, Athens, Greece 
  • Technical Program Committee for ACM SIGCOMM MobiArch '17, Los Angeles, USA
  • Technical Program Committee for ACM CoNEXT Student Workshop '17, Seoul, South Korea
  • Technical Program Committee for IEEE ICDCS HotPOST '17, Atlanta, USA
  • Technical Program Committee for IJCAI AI4IoT '17, Melbourne, Australia
  • Technical Program Committee for HotSpatial '17, Beijing, China
  • Technical Program Committee for ICA3PP '17, Helsinki, Finland
  • Technical Program Committee for IFIP Networking '16, Vienna, Austria
  • Shadow Technical Program Committee for ACM CoNEXT '15, Germany
  • Shadow Technical Program Committee for ACM EuroSys '15, France
  • Reviewer for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TOCCN)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Network (NETMAG)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters (CL)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Access
  • Reviewer for ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR)
  • Reviewer for Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC)
  • Reviewer for Springer Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)
  • Reviewer for Springer Journal on Wireless Networks (WINE)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
  • Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
  • Reviewer for IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
  • Reviewer for IFIP Networking Conference (Networking)

Professional Services:

  • Board of IEEE ComSoc YP, 04.2016 - present
  • Helsinki Mentor Program, 2016 - present
  • IETF Global Design Team, 2013 - present
  • Executive Committee of IEEE Finland, 01.2014 - 12.2015
  • IETF Nominating Committee (NomCom), 2012 - 2013
  • Advising Committee for Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers, 2012 - 2016
  • Chair of Well-being Group at Computer Science Department, University of Helsinki, 2008 - 2016

Co-authors:

Jon Crowcroft, Henning Schulzrinne, Sasu Tarkoma, Jörg Ott, Aravind Srinivasan, Pan Hui, Vassilis Kostakos, Raimo Kantola, Valtteri Niemi, Jukka Manner, Yong Li, Yu Xiao, Dirk Kutscher, Jouni Korhonen, Bo Han, Jose Costa-Requena, Zhen Cao, Hannes Tschofening, Petteri Nurmi, Laila Daniel, Huber Flores, Kai Zhao, Xiang Su, Markku Antikainen, Hannu Flinck, Markku Kojo, Teemu Savolainen, Markus Isomäki, Samuli Hemminki, Ilpo Järvinen, Aki Nyrhinen, Seppo Hätönen, Vittorio Cozzolino, Michael Haus

Personal:

Aaron is from Changsha, the capital city of Hunan (of similar size and population to UK)

  • Citizenship: China
  • Married
  • EU Green Card Holder (permanent resident)

Point Guard (PG) since age 10, representing high school and faculty of science. PG role model John Stockton

Life at TUM Connected Mobility @ Munich

"Juggling" in Jon's Academic Family @ Cambridge

Promotion Conferment, plus the moment in video @ Helsinki

Links, Photos, @Dagstuhl, @Helsinki, @MobiSys, @SIGCOMM, with friends, with Linus Torvalds

Contact:

  • Email: aaron.ding [at] tum.de
  • Phone: +49-89-289-18654
  • Office: 01.05.042
  • Post Address: 

    Dr. Aaron Yi Ding
    Technical University of Munich, Chair of Connected Mobility
    Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching bei München
    Bayern, Germany

 

 "Success consists of going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" -- Winston Churchill 

 "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever" -- Mahatma Gandhi