Kevin Fu Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst Email: kevinfu PGP Key Bio Computer Science Building 140 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003-9264 Phone: (413) 545-4006 Fax: (413) 545-1249

Learn about my research contributions.

My research objective is to understand how to provide security and privacy for pervasive computation by analyzing threat models and investigating mechanisms that provide unobtrusive security and privacy for ubiquitous computing. My research focuses on two large classes of such computational devices: implantable medical devices and RFID. My research often involves cryptography and file systems. I am the co-director of the Medical Device Security Center and coordinator of the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (RFID CUSP). I am a faculty member in PRISMS, the UMass Amherst Center for Advanced RFID Research, and SUMA.

Why CS at UMass Amherst rocks.

Events: Chicago Federal Reserve, MobiSys Security Panel, RFID Security 2008, BlackHat

Featured talk:

Payments Fraud: Perception Versus Reality.
RFID Security & Privacy: What's in Your Pocket?
2008 Payments Conference
Federal Reserve Reserve Bank of Chicago, June 6, 2008.
Media coverage: Digital Transactions
[PDF slides][RFID CC video][Chip & pin video 1][Chip & pin video 2][Chip & pin video 3]

Selected research papers:

Pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators: Software radio attacks and zero-power defenses.
D. Halperin, T. S. Heydt-Benjamin, B. Ransford, S. S. Clark, B. Defend, W. Morgan;
K. Fu, T. Kohno, and W. H. Maisel.
In Proceedings of the 29th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008.
Outstanding Paper Award.
Media coverage: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe
Blog coverage: Schneier, Slashdot, RISKS
Keywords: security; IMD; Award Paper; [bibtex] [details] [PDF]

Initial SRAM state as a fingerprint and source of true random numbers for RFID tags.
Daniel E. Holcomb, Wayne P. Burleson, and Kevin Fu.
In Proceedings of the Conference on RFID Security, July 2007.
Media coverage: Slashdot
Keywords: RFID; crypto; security; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [conference] [demo]

Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards.
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Dan V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom OHare.
In Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, Lowlands, Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago, February 2007.
Media coverage: New York Times, NBC/ABC News, AP News
Blog coverage: Slashdot, Senator Charles Schumer
Keywords: security; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [techreport] [conference] [demo]

News: UMass CVIP, WSJ

Research support: National Science Foundation, RSA Labs: The Security Division of EMC, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), Intel Research, ThingMagic