N. Asokan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo where he holds a David R. Cheriton Chair and serves as the Executive Director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (https://cpi.uwaterloo.ca/). Asokan's primary research theme is systems security broadly, with emphasis on hardware-assisted security, and the interplay between security/privacy and AI. Asokan is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. For more information about Asokan's work see his website at https://asokan.org/asokan/.