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]
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 |
Education and career
editAsokan 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]
Awards and recognition
edit- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems (2018)[17]
- Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award for pioneering research on fair-exchange protocols, trusted device pairing and mobile trusted execution environments that has had widespread impact and led to large-scale deployment (2018)[18]
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to system security and privacy (2017)[19]
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist (2015)[17]
- Google Faculty Research Award in the field of security (2013)[20]
Other contributions
editAsokan was part of the team that translated the book Operaatio Elop[21] (Operation Elop) from Finnish into English.[22]
References
edit- ^ "This one name business". N. Asokan official website. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "David R. Cheriton Chairs in Software Systems". Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "Secure Systems Group: People".
- ^ Asokan, N. (1998). "Fairness in Electronic Commerce" (PDF).
- ^ "System, method and computer program product for authenticating a data agreement between network entities". United States Patent and Trademark Office. August 24, 2010. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- ^ "Simple Pairing Whitepaper (PDF) V10r00. Bluetooth SIG. 3 August 2006" (PDF). August 3, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 18, 2006. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ^ Laitinen, P.; Ginzboorg, P.; Asokan, N.; Holtmanns, S.; Niemi, V. (2005). Extending cellular authentication as a service. 1st IEE International Conference on Commercialising Technology and Innovation. doi:10.1049/ic:20050605.
- ^ Holtmanns, S.; Niemi, V.; Ginzboorg, P.; Laitinen, P.; Asokan, N. (2008). Cellular Authentication for Mobile and Internet Services. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-72317-3.
- ^ "Secure Systems Group (Aalto University)".
- ^ "Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC)".
- ^ "Blockchain Consensus and Beyond: Scalable Secure Consensus & Applications". Academy of Finland.
- ^ "CloSer Project Public Homepage".
- ^ "Principal Investigators". Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Autonomous & Resilient Systems (CARS).
- ^ "N. Asokan (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)". 27 February 2019. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
- ^ "Professor N. Asokan joins Cheriton School of Computer Science as a Cheriton Chair in Software Systems". University of Waterloo | Cheriton School of Computer Science. April 9, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- ^ "N. Asokan". USPTO.
- ^ a b "N. Asokan". ACM Award Winners.
- ^ "ACM SIGSAC Awards".
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 2017".
- ^ "Google Faculty Research Award recipients 2013".
- ^ Salminen, Merina; Nykänen, Pekka (2014). Operaatio Elop [Operation Elop] (in Finnish). Teos. ISBN 978-951-851-590-9.
- ^ "Operation Elop". Medium.com. 18 September 2019.
External links
edit- Official website
- N. Asokan at DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- N. Asokan at ACM Digital Library
- N. Asokan publications indexed by Google Scholar