Interests
Computer system security and privacy. RFID security & privacy, implantable medical device security, secure storage, applied cryptography, energy-centric computing, cryptanalysis.
Biography
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. Professor Fu joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts as an Assistant Professor in 2005.
Research
Professor Fu's specific research interests include applications of computer system security and cryptography to computational RFIDs and implantable medical devices.
Awards & Activities
Professor Fu leads the Security and Privacy Research group (SPQR) at UMass Amherst.
He is the director of the RFID Consortium on Security and Privacy and the co-director of the Medical Device Security Center.
Kevin is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. His research received
best paper awards from the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Pacemakers and implantable cardiac defibrillators: Software radio attacks and zero-power defenses) and USENIX Security (Dos and Don'ts on Client Authentication on the Web), and appeared in venues such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He served on numerous program committees of
prestigious conferences in computer security and cryptography, and has
given dozens of invited talks world-wide to industry, government, and
academia. Awards include an Intel Foundation PhD Fellowship Award, a USENIX Scholar Fellowship, and First Place in the ACM International Student Research Contest.
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