- Active Funds -
PI- External, Intelligent IoT Security: Next-Generation Cyber Defense Mechanisms and Vulnerability Exploration Using Language Models
Period: June 1, 2024 - December 31, 2026
Budget: $133,333
Sponsor: Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), South Korea
Co-PI- External, HSI: ELPSE: EI: A Guided Pathway to Enhancing HSI Student Experience and Success in Generative AI with the Planting of Education-Oriented GPU Cluster,
Period: December 15, 2024 - November 30, 2026
Budget: $199,413
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PI- Unrestricted Gift
Period: July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2027
Budget: $29,650
Sponsor: Hanyang University-ERICA
PI- External, Development of Lightweight Multimodal Anti-Phishing Models and Split-Learning Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Anti-Phishing,
Period: July 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025
Budget: $200,688.36 and Dean's matching fund of $247,019, totaling $447,707.36
Sponsor: Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), South Korea
Senior Personnel- External, NSF SFS: Empowering the Cybersecurity Workforce with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence
Period: January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2028
- Awards -
Excellent Reviewer
IEEE Communications Society
Date: December 2022
Outstanding Early Career Award
President of Kennesaw State University
Date: April 6, 2021
Best Paper Award
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2016), Atlanta, GA, USA, October 8-10, 2016.
Best Ph. D. Dissertation Award
Organization: Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
Dissertation Title: Improving Efficiency of the Cryptosystem by Delegating Partial Computation in Cloud Computing Environment
Date: August 22, 2014
Best Paper Award
The IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2012), Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 13-16, 2012.
- Research Funds/Grants/Gifts (Completed) -
PI - Research Gifts, November 23, 2022 - December 31, 2023
Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea, $17,000
PI - External, Secure and Efficient Federate Learning for Automated Internet-of-Things Environment, July 1, 2021 - October 31, 2022
Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), South Korea, KRW 450,000,000 ($405,405, exchange rate=1,110/$1 with my portion of $102,358.39 plus stipend for five visiting graduate students
PI - External, Research on Mobile Platforms and Robots for Next-Generation Smart Service, May 1, 2020 - July 31, 2021
BOBA ROBO Co., US$15,000
PI - External, A Federated Approach to Image Feature Extraction, June 1, 2019 - May 31, 2021
Oracle Retail Applied Research, US$200,000
PI - External, Research on ICT core technologies and cultivation of innovative talents to lead next-generation smart healthcare, July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2021
Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP), South Korea, KRW 950,000,000 ($805,084, exchange rate=1,180/$1) with my portion of US$199,737.92 + stipend for 5 visiting graduate students
Co-PI - External, The Study on the Automation of Red Team Behavior and the Methodology to Build Critical Infrastructure Cyber Range for Large-scale Cyber Defense Training, July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
National Security Research Institute (NSR), South Korea, US$ 80,000 with my portion of $13,287.13, PI: Donghyun Kim
Co-PI - External, Development of Online Log Correlation Analysis System using HPCC Systems Platform, April 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Alpharetta, GA, US$ 50,000, PI: Donghyun Kim
Co-PI - External, Security Strategy for Secure Wireless Communication and Reliable IoT platforms, September 1, 2018 - February 28, 2020
Institute for National Security Strategy, South Korea, US$ 7,000 with my portion of $4,252.12, PI: Donghyun Kim
PI - Internal, Machine Learning-based Malware Defense for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Post-Doc Support Internal Grant, Kennesaw State University, US$ 39,900
Post-Doc, “Privacy-Preserving Trustworthiness Management Scheme for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks”, Fall 2016 - Summer 2017
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) Post-Doc Support Internal Grant, Kennesaw State University, US$ 24,680 (including Dean's matching fund of $7,180)
Post-Doc, “Research on Detecting Malware using Encrypted Traffic”, June 2016 - November 2016
National Security Research Institute (NSR), South Korea, US$ 80,000
Post-Doc, “NCCU Computational Center for Fundamental and Applied Science and Education (NCCU-CCFASE)”, February 2014 - August 2016
US NSF - The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) Phase II Grant# HRD-1345219, US$ 5,000,000, Feb. 2014 - Jan. 2019, Lead PI: B. Vlahovic
Investigator, "On the Analysis of Quantum Key Distribution Algorithms," September 2014 – May 2015
National Security Research Institute (NSR), South Korea, US$ 30,000
Investigator, “Advanced Data Encryption Schemes for Big Brother Problems,” May 2012 – August 2014
National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea, US$ 270,000
Investigator, "VPC Security Framework for Secure and Efficient Content Sharing," March 2012 - August 2014
National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea, US$ 100,000
Investigator, "IPTV 2.0 Security Framework for 4A Services," March 2009 – February 2012
National Research Foundation of Korea, South Korea, US$ 270,000
Investigator, "Securing IPTV: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures," March 2010 – August 2010
Korea Internet & Security Agency, US$ 40,000