Tadayoshi Kohno Explained

Tadayoshi Kohno is an American professor in the fields of data and computer security. He is the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access, and Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.^[1] He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,^{[2] [3]} a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Technical Advisory Board,^[4] and was an inaugural member of the Cyber Resilience Forum within the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.^[5]

Education and career

Kohno earned his bachelor of science degree from University of Colorado and his Ph.D. from University of California San Diego.^[6]

Kohno is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering;^[7] adjunct professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the School of Information, and the School of Law; associate director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access in the Allen School; co-director of the Security & Privacy Research Lab; and co-director of the Tech Policy Lab.

Fiction work

• "Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence," 2020.^[8]
• "Our Reality," a novella written to contribute to discussions on society, racism, and technology, 2021.^[9]
• "Off by One," column editor, IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine.^[10]

Awards

• Technology Review TR-35 Award (2007)^[11]
• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2008)^[12]
• IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of medical device computer security (2019)^{[13] [14]}
• IEEE S&P Test of Time Award for his work initiating the modern field of automotive computer security (2020)^{[15] [16]}
• ACSAC Test of Time Award (2019)^[17]
• AAAS Golden Goose Award (2021), an award managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science with bipartisan Congressional support;^[18] awarded for his work establishing the modern field of automotive computer security^{[19] [20] [21]}
• Allen School ACM Teaching Award (2022)^[22]

Research

• "Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices," Tamara Denning B.S., Yoky Matsuoka Ph.D., and Tadayoshi Kohno Ph.D., Journal of Neurosurgery.^[23] This work coined the term "neurosecurity."
• "Improving the Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices," William H. Maisel, M.D., M.P.H., and Tadayoshi Kohno, Ph.D., New England Journal of Medicine^[24]
• "Driverless: Who Is In Control?" Science Museum in London^[25]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty Leadership | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering .
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20221130163052/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2023-newly-elevated-fellows.pdf IEEE
3. Web site: Allen School professors Tadayoshi Kohno and Rajesh Rao named IEEE Fellows for pioneering new directions in computing research .
4. Web site: Security Expert Tadayoshi Kohno Joins EFF Advisory Board . 18 May 2020 .
5. https://www.nationalacademies.org/_cache_8b87/content/2015-cyberforum-annual-report-4885770000053945.pdf
6. Web site: Tadayoshi Kohno (aka Yoshi Kohno). homes.cs.washington.edu.
7. https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty
8. Web site: Telling Stories | Tech Policy Lab .
9. Web site: Q&A with Tadayoshi Kohno: In his new novella 'Our Reality,' Allen School professor invites readers to consider who benefits (And who doesn't) from technology .
10. Web site: CSDL | IEEE Computer Society .
11. http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2007
12. https://sloan.org/storage/app/media/files/annual_reports/2008_annual_report_vf.pdf
13. Web site: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2019. www.ieee-security.org.
14. Web site: Groundbreaking study that served as the foundation for securing implantable medical devices earns IEEE Test of Time Award .
15. Web site: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2020 .
16. Web site: UW and UCSD researchers earn Test of Time Award for driving automobile security in new directions .
17. Web site: Test of Time Awards - Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). www.acsac.org.
18. Web site: History .
19. Web site: Awardees. The Golden Goose Award.
20. Web site: "They were very unsure what to do with us": How Golden Goose Award-winning researchers at UW and UCSD put the brakes on automobile cybersecurity threats and transformed an industry .
21. Web site: 2021: The Fast and the Curious . 22 September 2021 .
22. Web site: ACM Teaching Award | Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. www.cs.washington.edu.
23. Neurosecurity: security and privacy for neural devices. Tamara. Denning. Yoky. Matsuoka. Tadayoshi. Kohno. July 1, 2009. Neurosurgical Focus. 27. 1. E7. thejns.org. 10.3171/2009.4.FOCUS0985. 19569895 . free.
24. https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/papers/IMD/NEJM-Maisel-Kohno.pdf
25. Web site: In London? See our work on Adversarial Machine Learning at the Science Museum – Security and Privacy Research Lab. August 6, 2019.