Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA - USA

Visiting Professor
Integrated Systems Laboratory
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
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Overview of the Challenges in Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

IMD security and privacy  introduces challenging design problems due to the unique combination of resource constrained computation (size, cost and most importantly energy), and the critical assets of personal safety and health information.  A systematic approach will be developed for analyzing these systems engineering problems by considering vulnerabilities and defenses across multiple levels. A taxonomy of IMDs will be presented based on their physical location, energy requirements, bandwidth, sensing/actuating functions, and vulnerabilities. 

 

About the speaker:
Wayne Burleson is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he has been since 1990. He has degrees from MIT and the University of Colorado and has worked as a design engineer and consultant in the semiconductor industry. Wayne collaborates extensively in Europe and is currently visiting at EPFL. His research is in the general area of VLSI, including circuits and CAD for low-power, long interconnects, clocking and mixed signals, on-chip sensor, reliability, thermal effects, process variation and noise mitigation.  He also conducts research in hardware security, secure systems, signal processing and multimedia instructional technology.  Wayne has published over 150-refereed publications in these areas and is a member of the ACM, ASEE, Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions in integrated
circuit design and signal processing.