N. Asokan | |
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Occupation | Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Waterloo Syracuse University Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
Thesis | Fairness in Electronic Commerce (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Jay Black Michael Waidner |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Computer Science |
Sub-discipline | Computer Security |
Institutions | University of Waterloo Aalto University University of Helsinki Nokia Research Center |
Website | asokan |
Nadarajah Asokan [1] is a professor of computer science and the David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems [2] at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. [3]
Asokan received a bachelor of technology (BTech) honours in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1988,a Master of Science (MS) in computer and information science from Syracuse University in 1989,and a PhD in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1998. His doctoral thesis was on the topic of Fairness in Electronic Commerce. [4]
From 1999 to 2012 he was employed at Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki,Finland,where he worked on several notable projects,including contributions to the design of the numeric comparison protocol [5] as part of the Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing update, [6] as well as what would become the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture. [7] [8]
From September 2012 until December 2017 he was a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki (part-time from August 2013 onwards). In 2013 he became a tenured (full) professor of computer science at Aalto University,where he co-led the Secure Systems Group (SSG) [9] and established the Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC),since renamed to the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity. [10]
At Aalto University he led research projects funded by the Academy of Finland, [11] Business Finland, [12] and various companies. He was a principal investigator (PI) of the Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Resilient and Autonomous Systems (CARS). [13]
In 2019 he joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo as a (full) professor and a David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems. [14] [15]
Asokan is the inventor of over 50 granted patents. [16]
Asokan was part of the team that translated the book Operaatio Elop [21] (Operation Elop) from Finnish into English. [22]
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