CV

CV

Work Experience

Georgia Institute of Technology

Postdoctoral Fellow — School of Cybersecurity and Privacy

Jan 2025 - Present

Core member of Team Atlanta, 1st place winner of DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Developing multi-agent AI systems for automated vulnerability discovery and exploitation.

  • Advisor: Prof. Taesoo Kim

Samsung Security Center, Samsung SDS

Senior Engineer — Advanced Penetration Testing Group

Aug 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 5 months)

Drove Red Team operations across AI systems, IoT devices, Android apps, and kernel-level mitigations. Secured 1B+ users through security reviews across 30+ consumer/enterprise products.

KAIST

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mar 2022 - Jul 2022 (5 months)

Continued research on acoustic and targeted EMI injection attacks against drones with recovery, and specification-based logic vulnerability analysis in smartphone baseband software.

  • Advisor: Prof. Yongdae Kim

Education

KAIST

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

Mar 2016 - Feb 2022

Thesis: Improving Large-Scale Vulnerability Analysis of IoT Devices with Heuristics and Binary Code Similarity

  • Advisor: Prof. Yongdae Kim

KAIST

M.S. in Electrical Engineering

Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

Thesis: Dissecting VoLTE: Exploiting Free Data Channels and Security Problems

  • Advisor: Prof. Yongdae Kim

EURECOM

Visiting Scientist — Software and System Security

Jun 2014 - Jul 2014

  • Advisor: Prof. Aurélien Francillon

KAIST

B.S. in Computer Science

Feb 2010 - Feb 2014

  • Advisor: Prof. Jongmoon Baik

Awards & Recognition

AwardResultTeamDate
DARPA AIxCC1st Place ($4M)Team AtlantaAug 2025
DEF CON 27 CTFFinals (12th/16)KaisHack GoNAug 2019
DEF CON 26 CTFFinals (21st/24)KaisHack+PLUS+GoNAug 2018
WhiteHat Contest1st Place ($30K)Old GoatskiNNov 2017
HDCON1st Place ($20K)maxlenNov 2017
Codegate CTF3rd Place ($5K)Old GoatskiNApr 2017
DEF CON 24 CTFFinals (5th/15)KaisHack GoNAug 2016
WhiteHat Contest1st Place ($20K)SyssecNov 2014
DEF CON 22 CTFFinals (10th/20)KAIST GoNAug 2014
WhiteHat Contest1st Place ($20K)KAIST GoNOct 2013
HDCONSilver ($2K)GoNDec 2013
DEF CON 20 CTFFinals (17th/20)KAIST GoNAug 2012
HDCONSilver ($2K)KAIST GoNJul 2012
Codegate CTF3rd Place ($5K)KAIST GoNApr 2012
ISEC CTF1st Place ($10K)GoNSep 2011