Kevin Fu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prof. Fu makes embedded computer systems smarter: better security and safety, reduced energy consumption, faster performance. His most recent contributions on trustworthy medical devices and computational RFIDs appear in computer science and medical conferences and journals. The research is featured in critical articles by the NYT, WSJ, and NPR. Prof. Fu served as a visiting scientist at the Food & Drug Administration, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School, Microsoft Research, and MIT CSAIL. He is a member of the NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Prof. Fu received a Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER award, and best paper awards from various academic silos of computing. He was named MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year. Prof. Fu received his Ph.D. in EECS from MIT when his research pertained to secure storage and web authentication. He also holds a certificate of achievement in artisanal bread making from the French Culinary Institute.
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Cryptanalysis of Two Lightweight RFID Authentication Schemes (with Benessa Defend and Ari Juels), Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series (2007)
Vajda and Butty´an proposed several lightweight authentication protocols for authenticating RFID tags to readers, and...
Key Regression: Enabling Efficient Key Distribution for Secure Distributed Storage (with Seny Kamara and Tadayoshi Kohno), Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series (2006)
The Plutus file system introduced the notion of key rotation as a means to derive...