Tadayoshi Kohno (aka Yoshi Kohno)

Tadayoshi Kohno
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

UW Email: yoshi at cs.washington.edu
Non-UW Email: yoshi at shmoo.com
Phone: 206-685-4853
Fax: 206-616-3804
Office: Paul G. Allen Center, Room 558 (Directions and Map)

Professional Bio: Online here

Mailing Address:
CSE Department
University of Washington, Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350

Research

My research spans a broad range of topics related to computer security, privacy, and applied cryptography. Please see my list of research project (links below) for some examples of what I've done in the past. But, honestly, I find that many topics in computer science (and life) have neat security-related twists, so please try me if you have a crazy idea!

Most of my publications are online here.

Teaching

CSE 484, Computer Security, Undergraduate Course, Winter 2009.
CSE 564, Computer Security and Privacy, Graduate Course, Autumn 2008.
CSE 484, Computer Security, Undergraduate Course, Winter 2008. [ UW Computer Security Course Blog, Wired, Slashdot ]
CSE 599G/H, Computer Security and Privacy, Graduate Course, Autumn 2007.
CSE 490K, Computer Security, Undergraduate Course, Spring 2007.
CSE P590B, Computer Security, Professional Masters Course, Winter 2007.
CSE 599G/H, Computer Security, Graduate Course, Autumn 2006.

Students

I'm very fortunate to work with some excellent PhD students:

And some excellent undergraduate and masters students:

Vjekoslav Brajkovic;
Ivayla Dermendjieva;
Amit Levy.

And an excellent high school student:

Ankur Dave.

I was also very fortunate to work with the following past students:

Gabriel Maganis, BS 2007;
David J. St. Hilaire, BS 2008;
Julia Schwarz, MS 2009.

Professional Activities

Program Committee, 2010 Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).
Program Chair, 2009 Hot Topics in Security (HotSec).
Program Committee, 2009 ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS).
Program Committee, 2009 MobiSys.
Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Program Committee, 2009 HotMobile.
Program Committee, 2009 Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS).
Program Committee, 2008 ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS).
Program Committee, 2008 Usenix Security.
Program Co-chair, 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT).
Program Committee, 2008 MobiSys.
Program Committee, 2008 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Program Committee, 2008 EUROCRYPT.
Program Committee, 2008 HotMobile.
Program Committee, 2008 ShmooCon.
Program Committee, 2007 Usenix Security.
Program Committee, 2007 Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet (SRUTI).
Program Committee, 2007 MobiSys.
Program Committee and WIPs Chair, 2007 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
Program Committee, 2007 WWW Security, Privacy, Reliability and Ethics Track.
Program Committee, 2006 Workshop on Recurring Malcode (WORM).
Program Committee, 2006 ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe).
Program Committee, 2006 Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2006.
Program Committee, 2006 NDSS.
Program Committee, 2005 Usenix Security.
Program Committee, 2005 WWW Security, Privacy, and E-Commerce Track.
Program Committee, 2004 WWW Security and Privacy Track.

Panelist, 2007 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.
Panelist, 2007 National ACLU Biennial Conference.
Panelist, 2007 ACLU of Washington Annual Membership Conference.
Panelist, First Microsoft Youth Summit for Online Safety, 2005.

Invited Witness, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on House Administration, Hearing on Electronic Voting System Security, July 2004.

Security and Privacy Research at the University of Washington

For additional information about security and privacy research at UW, please visit the following pages: