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. In 2026 he was named a university professor, the University of Waterloo's most prestigious institutional recognition. He served as Executive Director of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute from May 2021 to November 2025, and was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University.
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In this Indian name, the name Nadarajah is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Asokan.
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He served as Executive Director of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute from May 2021 to November 2025.
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