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.