N. Asokan
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N. Asokan | |
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Born | Nadarajah Asokan |
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 | Aalto University University of Helsinki Nokia Research Center |
Website | https://asokan.org/asokan/ |
Nadarajah Asokan[1], who goes by the name N. Askoan, is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University[2] where he co-leads the Secure Systems Group (SSG)[3] and directs the Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC).[4]
Education and career
Asokan received a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Honours in Computer Science & 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.[5]
From 1999 to 2012 he worked at Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where he worked on several notable projects, including what would become the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture.[6][7]
From September 2012 until December 2017 he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki (part-time from August 2013 onwards), and in 2013 he became a tenured (full) Professor of Computer Science at Aalto University. At Aalto University he has led research projects funded by the Academy of Finland,[8] Business Finland,[9] and various companies. He is a principal investigator (PI) of the Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Resilient and Autonomous Systems (CARS).[10] Asokan is the inventor of over 50 granted patents.[11]
Awards and Recognition
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems (2018)[12]
- 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)[13]
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to system security and privacy (2017)[14]
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Scientist (2015)[12]
- Google Faculty Research Award in the field of security (2013)[15]
Other Contributions
Asokan was part of the team that translated the book Operaatio Elop[16] (Operation Elop) from Finnish into English.[17]
References
- ^ "N. Asokan - About Me".
- ^ "N. Asokan (Aalto University)".
- ^ "Secure Systems Group (Aalto University)".
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(help) - ^ "Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC)".
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(help) - ^ Asokan, N. (1998). "Fairness in Electronic Commerce" (PDF).
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(help) - ^ 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.
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(help) - ^ "Blockchain Consensus and Beyond: Scalable Secure Consensus & Applications". Academy of Finland.
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(help) - ^ "Principal Investigators". Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Autonomous & Resilient Systems (CARS).
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(help) - ^ "N. Asokan". USPTO.
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(help) - ^ a b "N. Asokan". ACM Award Winners.
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(help) - ^ Salminen, Merina; Nykänen, Pekka (2014). Operaatio Elop [Operation Elop] (in Finnish). Teos. ISBN 978-951-851-590-9.
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External links
- N. Asokan (personal home page)
- DBLP
- ACM Digital Library
- N. Asokan publications indexed by Google Scholar
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