Kevin Fu Northeastern University

Kevin Fu is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and Bioengineering at Northeastern University, where he directs the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity. Fu previously served as the United States' Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity at U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. His research envisions cyberphysical systems resilient to cyberthreats: pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical devices, healthcare delivery. Fu is most known for his research on defibrillator cybersecurity. His research led to a decade of revolutionary improvements at medical device manufacturers, global regulators, and international healthcare safety standards bodies, foreseeing the risks of ransomware disrupting clinical workflow. Fu has been recognized as an IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS Fellow, Sloan Research Fellow, and MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year. Fu serves on the White House's President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Working Group on Cyber-physical Resilience. He served as the inaugural co-chair of the AAMI cybersecurity working group to create the first FDA-recognized consensus standards to improve the security of medical device manufacturing. He founded the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity. Fu received his BS, MEng, and PhD from MIT.