Dr. Ding has supervised 100+ students and won EU research grants (€5M+€4M) as Consortium Director & PI by leading a series of international and national R&D projects (H2020, Marie Curie ITN, German DAAD, EIT Digital, Tekes Finland) in tight collaboration with industrial companies of Nokia, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, Broadcom, Telia, NEC, Telefónica and WithSecure. His research focuses on edge computing, edge AI, and data-driven IoT services. For contributing to mobile edge computing with 80+ peer reviewed publications, he received best paper awards & recognition from ACM SIGCOMM, ACM EdgeSys, ACM SenSys CCIoT, IEEE INFOCOM. He is awarded the "Staff Member of the Year" in Computer Science at University of Helsinki. As co-founder, he initiated the FCN series to promote collaborations between top European and Asian research institutes, including Cambridge, Helsinki, London, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Tsinghua, Peking and Fudan. He is the founder of ACM EdgeSys, Associate Editor for ACM TIOT, IEEE OJ-ITS, and Springer Nature Computing. He has served on the organizing and programme committees for numerous prestigious conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, ACM MobiCom, ACM UbiComp, ACM WWW, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiSys, ACM/IEEE SEC, and IEEE INFOCOM. Dr. Ding is a recipient of the esteemed Nokia Foundation Scholarship.