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Dr. Kevin Fu
The Founder of the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Device Security
Dr. Fu is a globally-leading researcher on medical device security. His research remains the number one search hit for medical device security. He is an Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. His research investigates how to achieve trustworthy computing on embedded devices with application to health care, commerce, and communication. His work has appeared in prestigious academic journals and conferences as well as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. He has given several dozen invited talks across the world for universities, research labs, companies, conferences, and regulatory agencies. Prof. Fu has also testified in Congresson health matters and has written commissioned work for the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
Prof. Fu was named MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year, and received a Sloan Research Fellowship and Fed100 Award for his leadership to improve medical device security. He 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
Previous employers include Bellcore, Cisco Systems, HP Labs, and Holland Community Hospital. Prof. Fu spent 11 years at MIT where he received three engineering degrees. He is a member of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy and the NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Trick of Heat? Manipulating Critical Temperature-Based Control Systems Using Rectification Attacks
In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), November 2019.
Adversarial Sensor Attack on LiDAR-based Perception in Autonomous Driving
In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS), November 2019.
IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things Poster
IoT Two-Factor Neurometric Authentication System using Wearable EEG: March 12, 2019
Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security
Response to U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Request for Information on Supported Lifetimes of Legacy Medical Technology: May 2018
Infrastructure Disruption: Internet of Things Security
Statement to the U.S House Energy and Commerce Committee, Joint hearing on Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks, Wednesday, November 16, 2016.
Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices
In response to FDA-2015-D-5105 clearance process for “Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices,” April 21, 2016
Ghost Talk: Mitigating EMI Signal Injection Attacks Against Analog Sensors
In Proceedings of the 34th Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), May 2013.
Security and Privacy Qualities of Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Postmarket Surveillance
Design Challenges for Secure Implantable Medical Devices
In Proceedings of the 49th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2012. Invited paper.
Recent Results in Computer Security for Medical Devices
In International ICST Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare (MobiHealth), Special Session on Advances in Wireless Implanted Devices, October 2011.
They Can Hear Your Heartbeats: Non-Invasive Security for Implanted Medical Devices
Software Issues for the Medical Device Approval Process
Statement to the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate; Hearing on a delicate balance: FDA and the reform of the medical device approval process, Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
Take Two Software Updates and See Me in the Morning: The Case for Software Security Evaluations of Medical Devices
In Proceedings of 2nd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec), August 2011.
Patients, Pacemakers, and Implantable Defibrillators: Human values and security for wireless implantable medical devices
28th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2010.
Clinically Significant Magnetic Interference of Implanted Cardiac Devices by Portable Headphones
Improving the Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices
Neurosecurity: Security and Privacy for Neural Devices
Inside Risks, Reducing the Risks of Implantable Medical Devices: A Prescription to Improve Security and Privacy of Pervasive Healthcare
Privacy of Home Telemedicine: Encryption is Not Enough (poster)
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: New Directions for Implantable Medical Device Security
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) of Implanted Cardiac Devices by MP3 player Headphones
Circulation, 118(18 Supplement), November 2008 Abstract 662, 2008 American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions.
Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing
Secure Software Updates: Disappointments and New Challenges
Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices