Kevin Fu
{{Short description|American professor of computer science}}
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| discipline = Computer Science
| thesis_year = 2005
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Kevin Fu is a professor of computer science in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University{{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu |url=https://coe.northeastern.edu/people/fu-kevin/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Northeastern University College of Engineering |language=en}} known for his contributions to computer security{{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu |url=https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/fu_4063954 |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}} and security for medical devices.{{Cite journal |last1=Gollakota |first1=Shyamnath |last2=Hassanieh |first2=Haitham |last3=Ransford |first3=Benjamin |last4=Katabi |first4=Dina |last5=Fu |first5=Kevin |date=2011-08-15 |title=They can hear your heartbeats: non-invasive security for implantable medical devices |url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2043164.2018438 |journal=ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=2–13 |doi=10.1145/2043164.2018438 |issn=0146-4833|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite book |chapter=Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses |chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4531149 |access-date=2024-01-14 |doi=10.1109/SP.2008.31 |title=2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Sp 2008) |date=2008 |last1=Halperin |first1=Daniel |last2=Heydt-Benjamin |first2=Thomas S. |last3=Ransford |first3=Benjamin |last4=Clark |first4=Shane S. |last5=Defend |first5=Benessa |last6=Morgan |first6=Will |last7=Fu |first7=Kevin |last8=Kohno |first8=Tadayoshi |last9=Maisel |first9=William H. |pages=129–142 |isbn=978-0-7695-3168-7 |url=https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=cs_faculty_pubs }}{{Cite web |title=Award Papers of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy |url=https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2008/oakland08-award-papers.html |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.ieee-security.org}} Previously, he was a professor at the University of Michigan.{{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu |url=https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kevinfu/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=web.eecs.umich.edu}}{{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu {{!}} USENIX |url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2016/speaker-or-organizer/kevin-fu-university-michigan |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.usenix.org}}
Education
Fu received his SB in Computer Science in 1998 and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1999, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |title=Six With Ties to MIT Honored as ACM Fellows – MIT EECS |url=https://www.eecs.mit.edu/six-with-ties-to-mit-honored-as-acm-fellows/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.eecs.mit.edu}}{{Cite web |last=Fu |first=Kevin |title=Kevin Fu CV |url=https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kevinfu/files/fu-cv.pdf }} Fu completed his PhD as well at MIT in 2005 with a thesis titled "Integrity and access control in untrusted content distribution networks" advised by Ron Rivest and Frans Kaashoek.{{Cite book |last=Fu |first=Kevin |url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/34464 |title=Integrity and access control in untrusted content distribution networks |date=2005-09-06 |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|hdl=1721.1/34464 }}
Awards
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022){{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu and Raymond Fu Elected AAAS Fellows |url=https://coe.northeastern.edu/news/kevin-fu-and-raymond-fu-elected-aaas-fellows/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Northeastern University College of Engineering |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=2022 AAAS Fellows |url=https://www.aaas.org/page/2022-fellows-0 |access-date=2024-01-15 |website=American Association for the Advancement of Science}}
- ACM Fellow (2022)
- IEEE Fellow (2018) {{Cite web |title=Kevin Fu Elected IEEE Fellow for Contributions to Embedded and Medical Device Security |url=https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/kevin-fu-elected-ieee-fellow-for-contributions-to-embedded-and-medical-device-security/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=Computer Science and Engineering |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Mansfield |first=Kathy |date=2018-04-12 |title=IEEE Computer Society Members Elevated to Fellow for 2018 |url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2017-news/cs-fellows-2018/ |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=IEEE Computer Society |language=en-US}}
- NSF Career Award (2009 - 2013){{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1331652 - CAREER: Computational RFID for Securing Zero-Power Pervasive Devices |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1331652 |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 0845874 - CAREER: Computational RFID for Securing Zero-Power Pervasive Devices |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0845874&HistoricalAwards=false |access-date=2024-01-14 |website=www.nsf.gov}}
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Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:2022 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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