Kevin Fu 傅佳偉 Associate Professor, Computer Science Adjunct, Electrical & Computer Engineering Sloan Research Fellow University of Massachusetts Amherst Contact — PGP Key — Bio — CV

My research aims to make embedded computer systems smarter: better security and safety, reduced energy consumption, faster performance. The Security and Privacy Research (SPQR) Lab focuses on two rapidly evolving classes of computing devices: computational RFIDs and implantable medical devices.

Honors: TR35 Innovator of the Year, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER, Paper Awards [ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE S&P, USENIX Security]

News: The OMDRL loans medical devices for research in trustworthy computing. [Archived news]

Selected publications (complete list):

• Half-Wits: Software Techniques for Low-Voltage Probabilistic Storage on Microcontrollers with NOR Flash Memory (ACM TECS)
  

• Designing Privacy-preserving Smart Meters with Low-Cost Microcontrollers (Financial Crypto)

• They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices (ACM SIGCOMM)
  

• Mementos: System Support for Long-Running Computation on RFID-Scale Devices (ACM ASPLOS)
  

• Trustworthy Medical Device Software (Institute of Medicine)
  

• Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses (IEEE S&P)

• Power-Up SRAM State as an Identifying Fingerprint and Source of True Random Numbers (IEEE Trans. Computers)

Selected talks (complete list):

Affiliations: SPQR Lab, Medical Device Security Center, SHARPS, RFID CUSP

CFPs: ACM Workshop on Medical Communication Systems (MedCOMM), USENIX Security, RFIDsec

Research support: NSF, HHS, Sloan Foundation, Microsoft Research, EMC/RSA Labs, UMass President's Office, Intel

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