2026 Nadarajah Asokan: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	73	1609	1562	54	49	299	18854

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2018 - ACM Fellow For contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems
2017 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to system security and privacy
2015 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Nadarajah Asokan is a researcher affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada, with a primary research focus within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Hardware and Architecture, and Signal Processing.

The topics covered in their research include:

Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Security and Verification in Computing
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security

Recent notable papers from Asokan's work include:

Parallel and Asynchronous Smart Contract Execution, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Exploitation Techniques for Data-oriented Attacks with Existing and Potential Defense Approaches, 2021, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Effective writing style transfer via combinatorial paraphrasing, 2020, Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
WAFFLE: Watermarking in Federated Learning, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
A little goes a long way: Improving toxic language classification despite data scarcity, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Asokan frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

Samuel Marchal
Buse G. A. Tekgul
Ruizhe Wang
Meng Xu
Jian Liu

Their research has been published in various venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

In addition to journal and conference papers, Asokan has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Jupiter Publications Consortium eBooks titled Version 2.0 Concept 3 (2023).

Asokan has received several professional recognitions including:

ACM Fellow (2018) for contributions to systems security and privacy, especially of mobile systems
IEEE Fellow (2017) for contributions to system security and privacy
ACM Distinguished Member (2015)

Best Publications

Oblivious Neural Network Predictions via MiniONN Transformations

Jian Liu;Mika Juuti;Yao Lu;N. Asokan

736
Citations
Optimistic protocols for fair exchange

N. Asokan;Matthias Schunter;Michael Waidner

734
Citations
IoT Sentinel Demo: Automated Device-Type Identification for Security Enforcement in IoT

Markus Miettinen;Samuel Marchal;Ibbad Hafeez;Tommaso Frassetto

729
Citations
Key agreement in ad hoc networks

N Asokan;P Ginzboorg

683
Citations
Asynchronous protocols for optimistic fair exchange

N. Asokan;V. Shoup;M. Waidner

504
Citations
Optimistic fair exchange of digital signatures

N. Asokan;V. Shoup;M. Waidner

502
Citations
The state of the art in electronic payment systems

N. Asokan;P.A. Janson;M. Steiner;M. Waidner

434
Citations
DÏoT: A Federated Self-learning Anomaly Detection System for IoT

Thien Duc Nguyen;Samuel Marchal;Markus Miettinen;Hossein Fereidooni

429
Citations
State of the art in electronic payment systems

N. Asokan;Philippe A. Janson;Michael Steiner;Michael Waidner

422
Citations
PRADA: Protecting Against DNN Model Stealing Attacks

Mika Juuti;Sebastian Szyller;Samuel Marchal;N. Asokan

419
Citations
Man-in-the-middle in tunnelled authentication protocols

N. Asokan

354
Citations
Practical attacks against privacy and availability in 4G/LTE mobile communication systems

Altaf Shaik;Ravishankar Borgaonkar;N. Asokan;Valtteri Niemi

334
Citations
Scalable Byzantine Consensus via Hardware-Assisted Secret Sharing

Jian Liu;Wenting Li;Ghassan O. Karame;N. Asokan

327
Citations
C-FLAT: Control-Flow Attestation for Embedded Systems Software

Tigist Abera;N. Asokan;Lucas Davi;Jan-Erik Ekberg

311
Citations
Fairness in electronic commerce

N. Asokan

297
Citations
Protecting the computation results of free-roaming agents

Günter Karjoth;N. Asokan;Ceki Gülcü

293
Citations
Secure Deduplication of Encrypted Data without Additional Independent Servers.

Jian Liu;N. Asokan;Benny Pinkas

292
Citations
All You Need is "Love": Evading Hate Speech Detection

Tommi Gröndahl;Luca Pajola;Mika Juuti;Mauro Conti

258
Citations
SEDA: Scalable Embedded Device Attestation

N. Asokan;Ferdinand Brasser;Ahmad Ibrahim;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

251
Citations
Is this app safe?: a large scale study on application permissions and risk signals

Unknown

248
Citations
Secure Vickrey auctions without threshold trust

Helger Lipmaa;N. Asokan;Valtteri Niemi

232
Citations
D"IoT: A Federated Self-learning Anomaly Detection System for IoT

Thien Duc Nguyen;Samuel Marchal;Markus Miettinen;Hossein Fereidooni

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt

Jan-Erik Ekberg Aalto University

Kaisa Nyberg Aalto University

Michael Waidner Technical University of Darmstadt

Gene Tsudik University of California, Irvine

Nitesh Saxena Texas A&M University

Sasu Tarkoma University of Helsinki

Lucas Davi University of Duisburg-Essen

Jörg Ott Technical University of Munich

Michael Steiner Intel (United States)

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