Nadarajah Asokan[1] is a professor of computer science and the David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems[2] at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

[4] From 1999 to 2012 he was employed at Nokia Research Center (NRC) in Helsinki, Finland, where he worked on several notable projects, including contributions to the design of the numeric comparison protocol[5] as part of the Bluetooth Secure Simple Pairing update,[6] as well as what would become the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture.

[7][8] From September 2012 until December 2017 he was a professor of computer science at the University of Helsinki (part-time from August 2013 onwards).

In 2013 he became a tenured (full) professor of computer science at Aalto University, where he co-led the Secure Systems Group (SSG)[9] and established the Helsinki-Aalto Center for Information Security (HAIC), since renamed to the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity.

He was a principal investigator (PI) of the Intel Research Institute for Collaborative Resilient and Autonomous Systems (CARS).