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 protecting the security and privacy of current and future technologies. Example topics of past and on-going research include: provable security for cryptographic protocols; security and privacy for wireless medical devices; electronic voting machine security and privacy; digital rights management and DMCA enforcement; human-computer interaction and security and privacy; and RFID security and privacy. Kohno is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Kohno is also the author of multiple award papers, including papers at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), the International Conference on Mobile Systems, Application, and Services (MobiSys), and the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). In 2004 Kohno presented his research on electronic voting security and privacy to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 2007 Kohno was awarded the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, recognizing him as one of the world's top innovators under the age of 35. Kohno is also dedicated to computer security education and his methods for teaching "the security mindset" have received national attention. Kohno received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at San Diego.

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