Biography:N. Asokan
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]
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]
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
- 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
Asokan was part of the team that translated the book Operaatio Elop[21] (Operation Elop) from Finnish into English.[22]
References
- ↑ "This one name business". N. Asokan official website. 21 January 2018. https://asokan.org/asokan/name.php.
- ↑ "David R. Cheriton Chairs in Software Systems". https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/faculty-fellowships-and-awards/david-r-cheriton-chairs-software-systems.
- ↑ "Secure Systems Group: People". https://ssg.aalto.fi/people/.
- ↑ Asokan, N. (1998). "Fairness in Electronic Commerce". https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/292/NQ32811.pdf.
- ↑ "System, method and computer program product for authenticating a data agreement between network entities". August 24, 2010. https://uspto.report/patent/grant/7783041.
- ↑ "Simple Pairing Whitepaper (PDF) V10r00. Bluetooth SIG. 3 August 2006". August 3, 2006. http://www.bluetooth.com/NR/rdonlyres/0A0B3F36-D15F-4470-85A6-F2CCFA26F70F/0/SimplePairing_WP_V10r00.pdf.
- ↑ 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. https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/conferences/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. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Cellular+Authentication+for+Mobile+and+Internet+Services-p-9780470723173.
- ↑ "Secure Systems Group (Aalto University)". https://ssg.aalto.fi.
- ↑ "Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC)". https://haic.fi/about/.
- ↑ "Blockchain Consensus and Beyond: Scalable Secure Consensus & Applications". http://webfocus.aka.fi/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=x_HakKuvaus2&HAKNRO1=309195&UILANG=en.
- ↑ "CloSer Project Public Homepage". https://wiki.aalto.fi/display/CloSeProject/CloSer+Project+Public+Homepage.
- ↑ "Principal Investigators". http://www.icri-cars.org/researchers/.
- ↑ "N. Asokan (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science)". 27 February 2019. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/people/n-asokan.
- ↑ "Professor N. Asokan joins Cheriton School of Computer Science as a Cheriton Chair in Software Systems". April 9, 2019. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/professor-n-asokan-joins-cheriton-school-computer-science.
- ↑ "N. Asokan". http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=in%2Fasokan+and+in%2Fnadarajah&d=PTXT.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 "N. Asokan". https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/asokan_4672457.
- ↑ "ACM SIGSAC Awards". https://www.sigsac.org/award/sigsac-awards.html.
- ↑ "IEEE Fellows 2017". https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/ieee-fellows-2017.
- ↑ "Google Faculty Research Award recipients 2013". https://ai.google/research/outreach/faculty-research-awards/recipients/?category=2013.
- ↑ Salminen, Merina; Nykänen, Pekka (2014) (in fi). Operaatio Elop. Teos. ISBN 978-951-851-590-9. http://www.teos.fi/kirjat/kaikki/2014-syksy/operaatio-elop.html.
- ↑ "Operation Elop". 18 September 2019. https://medium.com/@harrikiljander/operation-elop-6f2b043f52c5.
External links
- N. Asokan at DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- N. Asokan at ACM Digital Library
- N. Asokan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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