Kevin Fu

fu_thawKevin Fu is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. His security research focuses on medical devices and health care.  Prior to joining Michigan, Prof. Fu served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  Prof. Fu serves as a member of the NIST Information Security and Privacy AdvisoryBoard and as an ORISE Fellow at the Food & Drug Administration.  He has testified on cybersecurity in U.S. Congress House subcommittee on Health, and was previously a visiting researcher at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School, Microsoft Research, and MIT CSAIL.  Prof. Fu received a Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, best paper awards from top computing conferences, and the distinction of MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year.  Prof. Fu earned his Ph.D. in EECS at MIT for research on secure storage and web authentication.