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N. Asokan
Principal Scientist
Security
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Background

I am a researcher in NRC, Helsinki working on security technologies. During March 2006 to December 2007, I also served as a part-time professor at the Helsinki University of Technology. I joined Nokia in 1999. Prior to joining Nokia, I was with the security group at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. I am an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), Syracuse University, and the University of Waterloo. I serve on the editorial board of the IEEE Network magazine.

In my personal home page you can find the list of conferences I am involved with, an up-to-date list of my publications as well as slides from recent talks and my standard bio.

Research Interests

My research focus is on security technologies. I am interested in all aspects of security, especially in networked and distributed systems. In my dissertation research, I designed protocols for fair exchange. At Nokia, I have been working on various security-related topics including cryptographic protocols, usable security, and secure platforms. You can see a list of my publications via Google Scholar or CiteSeer or DBLP.

Supporting/Other Information

Recent Talks

On-board Credentials with Open Provisioning
- Distingiushed Lecturer seminar, UC Irvine Department of Computer Science, Irvine, CA, USA, October 2008 [slides]
- Invited keynote at WISTP 2008, Seville, Spain, May 2008.
Securing Disruption-tolerant Communication
- DIT seminar series, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione - DISI, University of Trento, Feb 6, 2008
- Invited speaker series, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Jan 17, 2008
Security Associations for Personal Devices (aka Securing First Connect)
- Invited speaker series, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Jan 16, 2008
- Tutorial at the ZISC workshop on Wireless Security, ETH Zurich, Sep 29, 2007
- Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University of Bochum, Mar 15, 2007
- Networking laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Feb 23, 2007
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, Feb 9, 2007
- Distributed systems seminar, University of Waterloo, May 31, 2006
Phishing and Phones
- Panel on "Future of Phishing", Usable Security workshop (USEC '07), Feb 15, 2007