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

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My research objective is to improve the security and privacy of pervasive computation by analyzing threat models and creating software and hardware that protect everyday embedded devices. My research focuses on two large classes of such computational devices: implantable medical devices and computational RFIDs. My research often involves cryptography, mixed-signal embedded systems, and file systems. I am the co-director of the Medical Device Security Center and director of the RFID Consortium for Security and Privacy (RFID CUSP).

Honors: A.P. Sloan Research Fellowship, Intel PhD Fellowship, USENIX Scholars Fellowship, Best Paper Awards

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Selected research papers:

Inside risks, reducing the risks of implantable medical devices:
A prescription to improve security and privacy of pervasive health care.
Kevin Fu. Communications of the ACM, 52(6):25--27, June 2009.
Keywords: IMD; security; [bibtex] [abstract] [html]

CCCP: Secure remote storage for computational RFIDs.
Mastooreh Salajegheh, Shane Clark, Benjamin Ransford, Kevin Fu, and Ari Juels.
In Proceedings of the 18th USENIX Security Symposium, Montreal, Canada, August 2009. to appear.
Keywords: security; privacy; RFID; crypto; [bibtex] [conference]

Getting things done on computational RFIDs with energy-aware checkpointing and voltage-aware scheduling.
Benjamin Ransford, Shane Clark, Mastooreh Salajegheh, and Kevin Fu.
In Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower), December 2008.
Keywords: Power Management; [bibtex] [PDF]

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.
Related awards: Outstanding Paper Award, Eugene M. Isenberg Fellowship
Media coverage: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe
Blog coverage: Schneier, Slashdot, RISKS, medGadget, medGadget
Keywords: security; IMD; Award Paper; [bibtex] [details] [PDF] [slides]

Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards.
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Dan V. Bailey, Kevin Fu, Ari Juels, and Tom O'Hare.
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, Senate
Keywords: security; RFID; [bibtex] [PDF] [slides] [techreport] [demo]

Comprehensive list of publications and talks.

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