The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has appointed Former Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council member Kevin Fu (University of Michigan and the Archimedes Center) as the first ever Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity. Fu’s role also includes a one-year appointment as Program Director of Cybersecurity in the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), a division launched in September 2020 within CDRH. “The Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE) is part of the planned evolution of the Digital Health Program in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and will align and coordinate digital health work across the FDA. It marks […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Posts Tagged ‘embedded security’
Former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu Appointed as FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health Acting Director of Medical Device Cybersecurity
February 12th, 2021 / in Announcements, CCC, policy, Research News / by Helen WrightApply to Attend the 2nd Annual Embedded Security Workshop
August 17th, 2020 / in Announcements, Security / by Khari DouglasInterested in embedded security? Apply to join the second annual Embedded Security Workshop. The workshop will be hosted by Kevin Fu, former CCC Council Member and principal investigator of the SPQR Lab at the University of Michigan. From their website: “The workshop consists of a diverse set of talks by leading faculty and industrial researchers across the world ranging from medical device security to physics of analog sensor cybersecurity. Students will give lightning pitches of their research and participate in small breakout groups for discussion. The speakers range from industrial researchers to practicing neurosurgeons. The event focuses on improving diversity and inclusion for leading research in embedded security. There is […]
CCC Embedded Security Workshop Report Released
May 19th, 2020 / in CCC, conference reports, Security, workshop reports / by Khari DouglasThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Leadership in Embedded Security workshop report. The workshop was organized by former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu (University of Michigan), Wayne Burleson (UMass Amherst), and Farinaz Koushanfar (UC, San Diego). It brought together around fifty academics, industrial researchers, and government agency program managers who work close to the topic of embedded security. The workshop included deep dive group discussions as well as short visionary talks by several international speakers to lend perspectives on successful strategies for funding embedded security research overseas. The report, titled Grand Challenges for Embedded Security Research in a Connected World, focuses on the challenges and potential research opportunities across five […]
