Kevin Fu

Selected Publications

• “Protecting COVID-19 Vaccine Transportation and Storage from Analog Cybersecurity Threats” by Yan Long, Sara Rampazzi, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Fu. In AAMI Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, pp. 112–117, September/October, 2021.
• “Cybersecurity of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices ” by David Slotwiner, Arnab Ray, Kevin Fu, Bruce L. Wilkoff. In Efimov I.R., Ng F.S., Laughner J.I. (eds) Cardiac Bioelectric Therapy Computers in Biology and Medicine, Springer, Cham., January 2021.
• “On Cuba, Diplomats, Ultrasound, and Intermodulation Distortion” by Chen Yan, Kevin Fu, Wenyuan Xu. In Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier Press, Volume 104, January 2019, Pages 250-266. (previously released as University of Michigan Technical Report CSE-TR-001-18).
• “Cybersecurity concerns and medical devices: Lessons from a pacemaker advisory” by Dan Kramer, Kevin Fu. In Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), October 18, 2017.
• “Cybersecurity and medical devices: A practical guide for cardiac electrophysiologists” by Ben Ransford, Dan Kramer, Denis Foo Kune, Julio Auto de Medeiros, Chen Yan, Wenyuan Xu, Thomas Crawford, Kevin Fu. In Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology (PACE), 40(8), July, 2017.

Faculty

Mar 20, 2024

Securing Health Care Infrastructure Against Potentially Devastating Cyberattacks

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu advises the health care industry to more effectively protect its infrastructure from hackers who can infiltrate medical devices such as cancer radiation therapy machines.

Faculty

Feb 28, 2024

Change Healthcare Cyberattack Caused by Flawed Cybersecurity Systems

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu explains how the poor design of Change Healthcare’s cybersecurity systems led to a nearly weeklong cyberattack.

In the Media

Feb 12, 2024

New Technique Can Spy on Your Security Cameras Through Walls

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was featured in the Interesting Engineering article “New technique can spy on your security cameras through walls” and the Tech-Fy article “Shocking! Hackers Can Spy on Your Security Camera Through Walls: New Research Exposes Massive Gap.”

Faculty

Feb 09, 2024

Eavesdropping Cyberthreats Through Modern Security Cameras

Research of ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu, who specializes in cybersecurity, uncovered a way to eavesdrop on most modern cameras, from home security cameras and dash cams to the camera on your phone. Called EM Eye, short for Electromagnetic Eye, the technique can capture the video from another person’s camera through walls in real time. 

Faculty

Oct 25, 2023

Crickets May Be the Cause of Havana Syndrome

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu believes the real cause of the mysterious Havana syndrome is caused by the chirps of the short-tailed West Indies cricket.

Faculty

Oct 06, 2023

It’s Possible to Extract Audio from a Still, Soundless Image

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu has developed a machine learning tool called Side Eye that can extract audio from pictures and even muted videos.

Faculty

Oct 03, 2023

There are Ghosts in your Machine. Cybersecurity Researcher can Make Self-driving Cars Hallucinate

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu is researching methods to prevent cyberattacks in self-driving cars caused by optical illusions.

Faculty

Jun 01, 2023

Fu Appointed to PCAST Working Group

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was appointed to the White House President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group to identify research areas and possible solutions, as well as, advance current approaches to bolstering cyber-physical resilience.

Faculty

Jun 01, 2023

Fu Receives AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu received the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award for his groundbreaking research that demonstrated that implantable devices like pacemakers can be vulnerable to hackers and his efforts to mitigate these risks.

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