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

PhD students

• Benessa Defend, 2005-
• Benjamin Ransford, 2007-
• Mastooreh "Negin" Salajegheh, 2007-
• You, the future

Graduate student alums

• Hee-Jin Chae, 2006-2007 (masters, Raytheon)
• Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, 2005-2007 (masters, IBM Research Zurich)
• Robert Lychev, 2008 (masters, PhD program at GA Tech)

Graduate student thesis committees

• Dan Holcomb, ECE, 2006-2007
• Lang Lin, ECE, 2007-
• Penny Ridgdill, Math & Stats, 2007-
• Weifeng Xu, ECE, 2006-2007

Undergraduate research

• Jean Fredo Louis, 2008
• Mankin Yuen, 2008
• Zak Wirima, 2008
• Shane Clark. Crypto on UHF RFID tags and anonymous credentials, 2007
• Will Morgan. RFID credit cards and the Proxmark3, 2007
• Rene Santiago. Development of undergraduate Electronic Identification Lab (RFID), 2007
• David Eiselen. Batteryless clocks for RFID tags and espresso RFID payment system, 2007
• Timur Alperovich. Anonymous credentials and secure file systems, 2007
• Justin Katsugi. GNU Radio, 2007
• Anthony Swochak. RFID espresso payment system, 2007.
• Mike Ro. RFID security and mobile phones, 2006
• Russell B. Silva. Linux device driver programming for RFID hardware, 2006
• Robert Lynchev. Parasitic content distribution using the all-or-nothing transform, 2005
• Anjali Prakash. Key regression command-line tool (Johns Hopkins, 2004)
• Megumi Ando. Cryptographic reductions (MIT, 2003)
• Rachel Greenstadt. Cookie collection (MIT, 2001)
• Tina Tyan. SFS tools (MIT, 2000)
• Frank Dabek. SFSRO database (MIT, 2000)
• Drew Samnick. Cepheus access control server (MIT, 1999)

High school mentoring

• Pranish Kantak. Fargo North High School, Fargo, ND (2007-08)
• Caitlin Johnston. Crown Point High School, Crown Point, IN (2006-07, now Indiana University)
• Rachel Singh. Boston Latin Academy, Boston, MA (2005-06, now Harvard University)
• Meredith Dempsey. Lexington High School, Lexington, SC (2004-05, now Furman University)

Prospective students

Visit the admissions Web site. UMass Amherst CS students may browse my list of first-year research projects. You will need to use your UMass OIT credentials to authenticate.

Are you considering graduate school? There are many ways to prepare.

• Become intimately familiar with the latest research in your field of interest. Find a researcher you admire, then read his or her papers.
• As an undergraduate, work with graduate students or a professor on a research project. Get a taste of what graduate school is like. Aim to co-author a paper with your supervisors.
• Read books on the life and expectations of the graduate student. A popular book is Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning an M.A. or a Ph.D.
• Apply for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship by December before starting graduate school. If you have a fellowship, you will have much greater flexibility in selecting research topics — no matter what school you attend.
• Read about the research of your potential graduate advisors. Finding a compatible advisor is critical to your success as a graduate student.