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Kevin Fu is a professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, based in Boston. He founded and directs the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity. Fu’s research vision is a world in which security is designed into all embedded systems, including medical devices, autonomous transportation, manufacturing, and the Internet of Things. His research lab focuses on analog cybersecurity — the modeling and defense against threats to the physics of computation and sensing. Fu’s best-known research, which defended against vulnerabilities in implantable cardiac defibrillators, prompted improvements at medical device manufacturers, global regulators, and international safety standards bodies; the resulting security solutions preempted worldwide ransomware attacks against hospitals by a decade. Fu has worked to translate his findings into expert counsel and tangible improvements. He has testified in the US House and Senate, penned a report on trustworthy medical device software for the National Academy of Medicine, and served in several federal science advisory groups. He co-founded Virta Labs, a healthcare cybersecurity startup, and N95decon.org, a team that developed emergency decontamination methods for N95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before joining Northeastern, Fu served as the inaugural acting director of medical device cybersecurity at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, program director for cybersecurity at the Digital Health Center of Excellence, and associate professor at the University of Michigan.

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