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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