diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e31509842a876151c31473d89f7e242f61617544..336993f1f3edda0c14fa7b7478487d65ccdb3072 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ option(PYBIND "python binding" ON)
 option(WERROR "Warning as error" OFF)
 option(TEST "Enable tests" ON)
 option(COVERAGE "Enable coverage" OFF)
+option(ENABLE_ASAN "Enable ASan (adress sanitizer) for runtime analysis of memory use (over/underflow, memory leak, ...)" OFF)
 
 ##############################################
 # Import utils CMakeLists
@@ -53,6 +54,19 @@ target_link_libraries(${module_name}
         cudnn
 )
 
+if( ${ENABLE_ASAN} )
+    message("Building ${module_name} with ASAN.")
+    set(SANITIZE_FLAGS -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer)
+    target_link_libraries(${module_name}
+        PUBLIC
+            -fsanitize=address
+    )
+    target_compile_options(${module_name}
+        PRIVATE
+            ${SANITIZE_FLAGS}
+    )
+endif()
+
 if(TEST)
     target_link_libraries(${module_name}
     PUBLIC