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Benessa Defend
I am a fourth year PhD Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My advisor is Professor Kevin Fu in the PRISMS lab. I am also a member of RFID CUSP. I am currently attending the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan, where I am supported by a National Security Education Program Boren Fellowship. During 2005-2008 my graduate studies were supported by a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship.
During the Fall 2007 semester, I was a visiting researcher at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. I worked with Professor Sozo Inoue, with whom I also worked during Summer 2006 when I participated in the NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Program.
I received my BS in Computer Science in May 2005 from Austin Peay State University.
In 2002 I graduated from Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School for Health Sciences and Engineering.
Publications
- Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel. "Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses." IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2008. Best Paper Award.
- Benessa Defend, Mastooreh Salajegheh, Kevin Fu, and Sozo Inoue. "Protecting Global Medical Telemetry Infrastructure." The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection White Paper, March 2008.
- Benessa Defend, Kevin Fu, and Ari Juels. "Cryptanalysis of Two Lightweight RFID Authentication Schemes." PerSec 2007.
- Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Andrei Serjantov, and Benessa Defend. "Nonesuch: A Mix Network with Sender Unobservability." WPES 2006.
- Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Hee-Jin Chae, Benessa Defend, and Kevin Fu. "Privacy for Public Transportation." PET 2006.
Contact Information
Office: Computer Science Building, Room 224
Phone: 413-545-0582
Fax: 413-545-1249
Email: defend@cs.umass.edu
Benessa Defend
Computer Science Building
University of Massachusetts Amherst
140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003
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