Yongdae Kim (김용대)

Director, KAIST Cyber Security Research Center
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Professor, Graduate School of Information Security
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Lab Homepage: SysSec (System Security) Lab

Postal address: EE department, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea
Office Location: 201 (N-26 Building)
email: yongdaek(at)kaist.ac.kr, yongdaek(at)gmail.com  office phone: +82-42-350-7430
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I am a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Graduate School of Information Security and a head of Police Science and Technology Research Center at KAIST. I received a PhD degree from the computer science department at the University of Southern California in 2002. Before joining KAIST in 2012, I was a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities for 10 years. I served as a KAIST Chair Professor between 2013 and 2016 and a director of Cyber Security Research Center between 2018 and 2020. I am currently serving as a steering committee member of ACM WISEC and served as a general chair for ACM CCS 2021, a program committee chair for ACM WISEC 2022, an associate editor for ACM TOPS and a steering committee member of NDSS. His main research interest is finding and fixing novel vulnerabilities for emerging technologies such as drones, self-driving cars, and cellular networks.

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Research Interests and Publication by Area

I am interested in security of emerging and current systems. My research (almost always) involves design/implementation of attacks, design/implementation/analysis of secure systems. Over the past 20 years as a faculty member, I've been working on security of various systems, which are going to expand more in the future. List below was impossible without many bright and hardworking students.

All publications by year. Or from public source such as DBLP, Google scholar, and Microsoft Academic.

Recent Teaching

• 2023 Spring, EE213, Discrete Methods for Electrical Engineering
  
• 2022 Fall, EE515, Security of Emerging Systems
• 2022 Spring, EE488, Introduction to cryptography engineering
  
• 2021 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2021 Spring, EE213, Discrete Methods for Electrical Engineering
  
• 2019 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2019 Spring, EE817/IS893, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
  
• 2019 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2018 Spring, EE817/IS893, Cryptography Engineering and Cryptocurrency
  
• 2018 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2017 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2017 Spring, EE488, Discrete Methods for EE
• 2016 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2016 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2016 Spring, EE817/IS893, Cryptography Engineering
• 2016 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2015 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2015 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2014 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2014 Spring, IS511, Introduction to Information Security
  
• 2013 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• 2013 Spring, EE488, Discrete Methods for EE
  
• 2012 Fall, EE515/IS523, Security 101: Think Like an Adversary
• Teaching in Minnesota
  
• 2011 Fall, CSci 8271: Security and Privacy in Computing
• 2011 Spring, CSci 5471: Modern Cryptography
• 2010 Fall, CSci 2011: Discrete Structures of Computer Science
• 2010 Spring, CSci 5471: Modern Cryptography

Conferences and Journals I am involved in (selected)

Organizing and Steering Committee

• Steering Committee member, ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2022 - Present
• Program Committee Co-chair, ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2022
• General Co-chair (with Jong Kim), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2021
• Program Committee Co-chair (with Javier Lopez, Taesoo Kim), ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2018
• Editorial Board Member, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (previously, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security), 2013 - 2020
• Steering Committee Member, ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2013 - 2018
• Program Committee Co-Chair (with Adrian Perrig, Heejo Lee), International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA), 2013
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Emerging Wireless Networks, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2010
• Program committee co-chair, StorageSS, ACM CCS Workshop, 2008
• NSF Student Travel Grant Committee Chair, IEEE Infocom, 2007
• Local Steering Committee, Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS), 2004

Conference/Workshop Program Committee

• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2013 - 2015, 2017 - 2023
• IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2007 - 2008, 2013 - 2015, 2021 - 2022
• Usenix Security Symposium (Security), 2017 - 2023
• ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011 - 2023
• ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2014 - 2015, 2023
• ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2008, 2012 - 2013
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006, 2009-2011, 2013
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2016
• International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2013
• ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2013
• IEEE Infocom, 2006
• SecureComm, 2005 - 2006