N. Asokan

N. Asokan
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
Syracuse University
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
ThesisFairness in Electronic Commerce (1998)
Doctoral advisorJay Black
Michael Waidner
Academic work
DisciplineComputer Science
Sub-disciplineComputer Security
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Aalto University
University of Helsinki
Nokia Research Center
Websiteasokan.org/asokan

Nadarajah Asokan is a professor of computer science who held the David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems from September 2019 to December 2025 at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. He served as Executive Director of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute from May 2021 to November 2025. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University.