My name is Asokan. I am a researcher in
computer science. My research work has focussed primarily on security
issues. In particular, I am interested in applying cryptographic
techniques to construct secure protocols for distributed systems.
I serve on the Steering Committee of
the ACM WiSec conference and
served on the editorial boards of the
IEEE Network
magazine (2007-2011) and
the Elsevier
Computer Communications journal (2009-2010).
My research page contains pointers to my publications and recent talks. More lists of publications from Google Scholar, (or my Google Scholar profile), Microsoft Academic Search DBLP, ACM Author Profile, ResearcherID profile, or CiteSeer.
Since 1999, I have been working at the Nokia Research Center in Helsinki. From March 2006 till December 2007, I also served as a part-time professor of at TML in the Helsinki University of Technology (now part of Aalto University).
Prior to joining Nokia, I spent three years with the Security Research Group at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (ZRL) as a research scientist and six years at MFCF at the University of Waterloo as a Unix Lizard.
While at ZRL, I worked on the SEMPER project in which my primary responsibility was the design and implementation of the generic payment service framework. I also co-designed the fair exchange protocols in the Fair and Secure Electronic Transactions project. I received my formal education at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, at the dear departed School of Computer and Information Science (now part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciene) at Syracuse University, and at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Here is a pointer to my standard bio (full
version or short version) which contains a little bit more information.
