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Aaron Yi Ding ( ),  Ph.D.

PhD Supervising Committee
FIGS PhD  &  UH Distinguished MSc
Staff Member of NODES Group  &  HIIT
Editor of CS department International Blog
Chair of CS department Well-Being Group



2016

  • Munich Internet Research Retreat (MIR), Burghausen, Germany     November
    - Hosted by TUM and NetApp
  • TUM Chair of 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, hosted by University of Helsinki
  • 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
    - 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
    - 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
  • IETF 93, Prague, Czech Republic       July
    - 93rd Meeting of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
  • IAB Workshop, ETH Zurich, 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 Annual 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 Annual 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 Annual Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
  • ACM SIGCOMM 2013, Hong Kong, China       August
    - Flagship Annual 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 Annual 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 Annual 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
    - 15th Annual International 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


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