Kevin Fu is an assistant professor of computer science at UMass Amherst, where he co-directs the Medical Device Security Center. He is the principal investigator of the Radio Frequency Identification Consortium on Security and Privacy (RFID CUSP). His research involves the security and privacy of pervasive technology, including RFID technology, implantable medical devices and file systems. His contributions include cryptographic methods for secure-content distribution and security analysis of medical devices, RFID-enabled credit cards and software update mechanisms. Fu has served on many program committees for conferences in computer security and cryptography. His research has been widely covered by the press, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Good Morning America. Fu earned his bachelor's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and went on to receive his master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical computing and computer science from MIT. He also served as a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute.
Tadayoshi Kohno is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. His research focuses on assessing and improving the security and privacy properties of current and future technologies, and he serves as co-director of the Medical Device Security Center. Kohno is the recipient of a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and in 2007 was recognized by MIT's Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35. His 2003 analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machine helped catalyze the national debate on e-voting security. Kohno's demonstration of security flaws in the Nike+iPod Sport Kit sparked widespread discussion on security of consumer electronics. He has presented voting machine research to the U.S. House and has been cited in media outlets ranging from The New York Times to CNN Headline News. Kohno received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and went on to earn his master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of California at San Diego. He served as a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute and at the University of California at Berkeley.
Dr. Daniel Kramer studied Philosophy at Brown University and earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School before training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cardiology/Cardiac Electrophysiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Kramer was a Medical Device Fellow of the Food and Drug Administration and continues to serve as an expert consultant to the FDA's Circulatory Systems Advisory Panel. Dr. Kramer's research focuses on ethics, policy, and performance aspects of cardiovascular devices, and he has served as a task force member for the Heart Rhythm Society's expert consensus guidelines on managing cardiac implantable electrical devices at the end-of-life. Current projects include analyses of regulatory approaches to novel cardiovascular devices, controversies regarding deactivation of life-sustaining medical devices, and outcomes in cardiac resynchronization therapy.
Nathanael Paul is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee and a research scientist in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division within the cybersecurity research group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research is focused on security for embedded systems including areas in health, energy delivery, and transportation. His research contributions include work in secure electronic voting, instruction set randomization, disk-level security, and medical device system security and privacy. Current projects include designing new ways to manage security and privacy in insulin pump systems and the artificial pancreas (Univ. Tenn.) and a project to address security and privacy inside the Smart Grid (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). Paul received his bachelor's degree from Bob Jones University, his master's degree from Clemson University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia — all degrees in computer science. As a postdoctoral research scientist, he was a member of the Systems and Security research group at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.