Education and career
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] His term as adjunct professor at Aalto University ended in August 2024.
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]
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