Expert Cybersecurity Consulting for Operational Technology
Medical Devices · Health Care · Pharmaceuticals
Internet of Things
Manufacturing · Autonomous Systems · Supply Chain
OT Cybersecurity · Expert Witness · Speaker · Researcher · Advisor · Health Care Delivery · Product Security Design · Intellectual Property · Risk & Vulnerability Management · Strategic Planning
Dr. Kevin Fu, Ph.D.
Professor
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow
Sloan Research Fellow
Dr. Dwight E. Harken Memorial Lecturer
Northeastern University
Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and
Bioengineering
Kevin Fu is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and Bioengineering at Northeastern University in Boston. His research lab focuses on analog cybersecurity—how to model and defend against threats to the physics of computation and sensing. His research led to a decade of revolutionary improvements at medical device manufacturers, global regulators, and international healthcare safety standards bodies. He published widely on medical device security, healthcare ransomware, automobile cybersecurity, RFID security and privacy, secure content distribution, and web security.
Fu served as the inaugural Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity at U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and Program Director for Cybersecurity at the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE).
Fu has testified in the House and Senate on matters of information security and was commissioned by the National Academy of Medicine to publish a report on trustworthy medical device software. He served as the 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 co-founded the N95decon.org team for emergency reuse decontamination of N95 masks during pandemic shortages. Fu received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from MIT.
Fellowships:
ACM Fellow for contributions to computer security, and especially to the secure engineering of medical devices (2023)
AAAS Fellow for distinguished national leadership in technology and policy for improving cybersecurity (2023)
IEEE Fellow for contributions to embedded and medical device security (2018)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2009)
Awards:
MIT Technology Review TR35 Innovator of the Year (2009)
Dr. Dwight E. Harken Memorial Lecture Award (2017)
IEEE Security and Privacy (Test of Time Award for pacemaker security paper, 2019)
IEEE Security & Privacy (Outstanding Paper Award, 2008)
ACM SIGCOMM (Best Paper Award, 2012)
USENIX Security (Best Paper, 2001)
University of Michigan Regents’ Distinguished Public Service Award (2017)
Fed 100 Award (2013)
NSF CAREER Award (2009)
Associations:
Member, White House PCAST Working Group on Cyberphysical Resilience
Member, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Editorial Board
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Chair, USENIX Security Test of Time Award Selection Committee
Founder and Director, Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity
Moderator, UCSF-Stanford Distinguished Speaker Series on Cybersecurity for Biomedical Engineering
Founding Member, N95Decon.org
Former Chair, Computing Community Consortium (CCC), Cybersecurity Task Force
Co-Founder and Former CEO, Virta Labs
Former Member, U.S. NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board
FEATURED ON
Speaker and Moderator
Leaders turn to Dr. Fu for cybersecurity advice.
Whether advising the White House or a corporate executive, Dr. Fu understands how to deliver actionable advice appropriate for the audience. His insightful SWOT analyses reshape corporate strategies and public policy that keeps cybersecurity threats in check without breaking the bank.
Inspiring Talks.
Mixing technology and comedy, Dr. Fu has given hundreds of dazzling talks on cybersecurity for conferences, corporate retreats, engineering societies, clinician societies, patient societies, House and Senate caucuses, the White House, news media, and more. He also regularly serves as a moderator in technical, public policy, and business events. Whether for a large audience of millions of viewers on evening TV news or the small audience of a Board of Directors, Dr. Fu provides riveting talks on cybersecurity that draw on his professional experiences ranging from pacemaker security to hacking sensors with acoustics, lasers, and radio waves.
Dr. Kevin Fu, Ph.D.
Dr. Fu provides expert cybersecurity consulting for Operational Technology across three sectors:
Healthcare and medical devices
Internet of Things
Manufacturing, Autonomous Systems, Supply Chain
SERVICES
Expert Witness
When your expert witness is called to the stand, you want someone with experience, credentials, and composure. Dr. Fu is a seasoned expert witness for cybersecurity litigation, holding three degrees from MIT. His publications and patents are widely cited in top scientific, engineering, and medical journals and conferences. His experience in testimony includes Congressional hearings, and cybersecurity trials ranging from healthcare ransomware to product cybersecurity liability.
Executive Advisor
Dr. Fu’s experience advising corporate Boards of Directors and serving on corporate advisory boards save company time, money, and reputation. U.S. Congress regularly solicits his cybersecurity expertise to inform decision making. His advisory portfolio encompasses cybersecurity risk management, product design, factory floors, supply chain management, and vulnerability management planning. Past clients include large international semiconductor and healthcare corporations in North America, Europe, and Asia. As a former cybersecurity startup CEO and co-founder, Dr. Fu asks the battle-hardened questions for due diligence on venture capital investments in cybersecurity startups.
Engaging Speaker
Dr. Fu delivers inspiring cybersecurity talks that blend technology, public policy, medicine, and comedy. Audiences range from a dozen executives in a board room to millions of viewers on national evening TV news.