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

Oct 25, 2023

Crickets May Be the Cause of Havana Syndrome

ECE 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. The working group is made up of cyber-security experts from across academia, government and industry with the intent to identify research areas and possible solutions, as well as, advance current approaches to bolstering cyber-physical […]

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.

In the Media

Apr 19, 2023

Why FDA’s New Cyber Device Regs Are a ‘Watershed Moment’

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was featured in the Bank Info Security article “Why FDA’s New Cyber Device Regs Are a ‘Watershed Moment’” for how the new regulations will ensure uniformity.

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Jan 31, 2023

Kevin Fu and Raymond Fu Elected AAAS Fellows

ECE/Khoury Professors Kevin Fu and Yun Raymond Fu were elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022 Fellows in the Information, Computing & Communication section.

Faculty

Jan 18, 2023

Fu Selected as ACM Fellow

ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to computer security, and especially to the secure engineering of medical devices.

Faculty

Dec 20, 2022

New Faculty Spotlight: Kevin Fu

Kevin Fu joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in January 2023 as a Professor with a joint appointment in Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

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