Benessa Defend

I am a third year graduate student in the MS/PhD program 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 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

• 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