N. Asokan, University of Waterloo

Research

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Latest papers

PICASSO: Scaling CHERI Use-After-Free Protection to Millions of Allocations using Colored Capabilities
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
PICASSO: Scaling CHERI Use-After-Free Protection to Millions of Allocations using Colored Capabilities
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
PAL*M: Property Attestation for Large Generative Models
arXiv (Cornell University) · 2026 · senior author

All 301 publications

From the 150 most recent of 301 publications.

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PICASSO: Scaling CHERI Use-After-Free Protection to Millions of Allocations using Colored Capabilities

Merve Gülmez, Sturm Ruben, Hossam ElAtali, Håkan Englund, Jonathan D. Woodruff, N. Asokan, Thomas Nyman

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22671393

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PICASSO: Scaling CHERI Use-After-Free Protection to Millions of Allocations using Colored Capabilities

MERVE GÜLMEZ, Sturm Ruben, Hossam ElAtali, Håkan Englund, Jonathan D. Woodruff, N. Asokan, Thomas Nyman

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20353117

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PAL*M: Property Attestation for Large Generative Models

Prach Chantasantitam, Adam Caulfield, Vasisht Duddu, Lachlan J. Gunn, N. Asokan

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Senior authorOpen Access

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PICASSO: Scaling CHERI Use-After-Free Protection to Millions of Allocations using Colored Capabilities

Merve Gülmez, Ruben Sturm, Hossam ElAtali, Håkan Englund, Jonathan D. Woodruff, N. Asokan, Thomas Nyman

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Open Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.09131

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PAL*M: Property Attestation for Large Generative Models

Prach Chantasantitam, Adam Caulfield, Vasisht Duddu, Lachlan J. Gunn, N. Asokan

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2601.16199

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Defending against Adaptive Prompt Injection Attacks via Reasoning-enabled Task Alignment

Lipeng He, Yihan Wang, Jiawen Zhang, N. Asokan

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Senior authorOpen Access

07

Functional and Secure Code Generation with Task Vectors

Fang Wang, A Das, Mei Nagappan, N. Asokan

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Senior authorOpen Access

08

Artifact: SoK: Colluding Adversaries in Machine Learning Pipelines

Vasisht Duddu, Asim Waheed, Lipeng He, N. Asokan

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20429235

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PATCH: Mitigating PII Leakage in Language Models with Privacy-Aware Targeted Circuit PatcHing

Anthony Hughes, Vasisht Duddu, N. Asokan, Nikolaos Aletras, Ning Ma

2026Open Access

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2026.findings-eacl.271

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Finding Vulnerabilities via LLM-Augmented Semantics-Aware Type-Checking

Ruizhe Wang, Meng Xu, N. Asokan

arXiv (Cornell University)2026Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.14533

Frequent collaborators

Cheriton School of Computer Science
Department of Political Science
Computer Science
Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering
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Nadarajah Asokan

Computer Science

286 shared papers, latest 2026

Mohammad Mannan

Department of Cybersecurity and Intelligent Systems Engineering

3 shared papers, latest 2020

Diogo Barradas

Cheriton School of Computer Science

2 shared papers, latest 2025

Elizabeth Stobert

School of Computer Science

2 shared papers, latest 2018

Meiyappan Nagappan

Cheriton School of Computer Science

1 shared papers, latest 2024

Ronald Deibert

Department of Political Science

1 shared papers, latest 2021

Ron Deibert

Department of Political Science

1 shared papers, latest 2021

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