Tadayoshi Kohno's Professional Bio

Tadayoshi Kohno is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. His research focuses on assessing and improving the security and privacy properties of current and future technologies. Kohno is the recipient of a 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and in 2007 was recognized by MIT's Technology Review magazine as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35. Kohno's analysis of a common pacemaker and implantable cardiac defibrillator sparked widespread discussion on the security and privacy of wireless medical devices. His 2003 analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machine helped catalyze the national debate on e-voting security. He has presented his voting machine research to the U.S. House of Representatives and has been cited in media outlets ranging from The New York Times to CNN Headline News. He has received numerous awards for his research, including the Best Paper and Outstanding Paper Awards at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, and the International Conference on Mobile Systems, Application, and Services (MobiSys). Kohno received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at San Diego.

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