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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