Dae Wook (Wooky) Kim
Computer Information Systems Program
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, & Physics
Georgian Court University
900 Lakewood Ave, Lakewood, NJ 08701, USA
Office: Jeffries Hall 136
E-mail: dkim@georgian.edu
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About Me
I am an Assistant Professor and the Program Director of the Computer Information Systems (CIS) program at Georgian Court University. I received the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University at Dayton, OH. My adviser is Prof. Junjie Zhang at Wright State.
What's New? (Last updated: 6/10/2025)
I have been awarded the GCU Summer Research Grant ($5,000.00) to support my student summer work and equipment. Thank you to the the Office of the Provost!
CIS Club website has officially launched on the GCU Organizations platform! I will serve as a faculty advisor to support GCU students’ extracurricular activities (e.g., a summer programming camp for K-12 students).
I have been awarded the GCU Faculty Mini Grant for Spring 2025! This grant ($500.00) will fund a project to develop an AI-driven, real-time motion detection demonstration using an embedded system for on-campus events. Thank you for your support, Office of the Provost!
Stephanie Dorman and I have been selected to participate in the virtual workshops on Funding the Future: Proposal Development for Computer Scientists and Grant Officers, The Council of Independent Colleges on March 11-12!
I am honored to be recognized as a Most Valuable Professor for this Fall 2024 semester at Georgian Court University. Thank you to the GCU Athletics Department for this recognition!
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Cybersecurity
Data Science and Analytics
Education
Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2017.
M.S., Department of Computer Science, Syracuse University, 2007.
B.S., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, 2003.
Publications
Trevor Rice, Dae Wook Kim, and Mengkun Yang, "Developing a GUI Application: GPU-Accelerated Malicious Domain Detection. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 167–171.
Eun Hee Ko, Dae Wook Kim, and Gosu Kim, “Influence of Emojis on User Engagement in Brand-Related User Generated Contents”, Computers in Human Behavior (2022) (IF: 8.957).
Trevor Rice, Allen Roberts, and Dae Wook Kim, “MapReduce based string-matching algorithms for malicious domain detection”, The University Presentation Showcase of Scholars Week, EKU, John Grant Crabbe Main Library, Richmond, April 5-9, 2021. [poster]
Ethen B. Holzapfel, David M. Cannon, Alex J. Dixon, Eun Hee Ko, and Dae Wook Kim, "Developing Web-based Predictive Application for Crowdfunding Campaigns.", the Poster-at-the-Capitol program, Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, March 5, 2020. [poster]
Alex Dixon, Dae Wook Kim and Eun Hee Ko, "Efficient Clustering for User’s Brand Sentiments Analysis on Online Social Media", the 54th NCHC Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 6-10, 2019. [poster]
Alex Dixon and Dae Wook Kim, "Machine Learning-based Predictive Analytics of University Enrollment", the Poster-at-the-Capitol program, Kentucky State Capitol, Frankfort, February 21, 2019. [poster]
Yu Li, Xiaotian Wang, Dae Wook Kim, Junjie Zhang, and Rui Dai, "Designing Self-Destructing Wireless Sensors With Security and Performance Assurance", Computer Networks (2018) (IF: 2.522).
Yu Li, Dae Wook Kim, Junjie Zhang, Derek Doran, "Detecting Suspicious Members in An Online Emotional Support Service", SecureComm 2018, August 8-10, 2018, Singapore, Singapore. (Acceptance rate: 30.5%)
Eun Hee Ko, Douglas Bowman, Sierra Chugg, Dae Wook Kim, "A Study of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Tenure with Competitive Sorting Model", ACM Southeast Conference, Richmond, KY, March 29-31, 2018. [poster]
Dae Wook Kim, Junjie Zhang, "Deriving and Measuring DNS-Based Fingerprints", Journal of Information Security and Applications 36 (2017): 32-42, 2017.
Mingxuan Sun, Guangyue Xu, Junjie Zhang, Dae Wook Kim, "Tracking You Through DNS Traffic: Linking User Sessions By Clustering With Dirichlet Mixture Model", the 20th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), Nov. 21st-25th, 2017, Miami Beach, USA (Acceptance rate: 27%).
Yadong Zhou, Dae Wook Kim, Junjie Zhang, Lili Liu, Huan Jin, Hongbo Jin, and Ting Liu, "ProGuard: Detecting Malicious Accounts in Social-Network-Based Online Promotions", IEEE Access 5 (2017): 1990-1999 (IF: 3.557).
Dae Wook Kim and Junjie Zhang, "You Are How You Query: Deriving Behavioral Fingerprints from DNS Traffic." Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. Springer International Publishing, 2015. 348-366. (Acceptance rate: 30/108= 27.7%).
Dae Wook Kim, Peiying Yan, and Junjie Zhang, "Detecting fake anti-virus software distribution webpages." Computers & Security 49 (2015): 95-106 (IF: 2.650).
Dae Wook Kim and Mehmet M. Dalkilic, "Analysis of Proximity Networks from Multiple Mobile Sensor Data." International Journal of Future Computer and Communication 2.3 (2013): 134-139.
Teaching
CS231 Intro to DB Systems, Georgian Court University, Spring 2025
CS212/IS312 Data Analytics for Business, Georgian Court University, Spring 2025
CS126 Computer Programming II, Georgian Court University, Spring 2025
CS450 Applications Project, Georgian Court University, Fall 2024
CS414 Research Problem in CS or CIS, Georgian Court University, Spring 2025 (Two sessions), Fall 2024.
SL100 Service Learning, Georgian Court University, Spring 2025
CS306 Topics in CS or CIS (Machine Learning), Georgian Court University, Fall 2024
CS227 Data Structures, Georgian Court University, Fall 2024
CS220 Python Programming, Georgian Court University, Fall 2024
CS120 Introduction to Python, Georgian Court University, 7wk 1 session, Fall 2024
CSC 101 Introduction to Computer Science, Vaughn College, Spring 2024
CSC 322 Computer Operating Systems, Vaughn College, Spring 2024
CSC 211 Database Fundamentals, Vaughn College, Fall 2023
CSC 321 Machine Learning, Vaughn College, Fall 2023
CPSC 6660 Artificial Intelligence, Governors State University, Spring 2023
CPSC 6210 Scripting Languages, Governors State University, Fall 2022
CPSC 4190 Introduction to Software Engineering, Governors State University, Fall 2022
CPSC 8985 Graduate Seminar in CPSC, Governors State University, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 (Two sessions)
CSC 313 Introduction to Database Systems, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2020.
CSC 210 Data Structures and Programming, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2020.
CSC 583 Data Visualization, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2020-2022.
CSC 542 Internet Forensics, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2019.
CSC 582 Big Data, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2019, Fall 2020.
CSC 581/781 Machine Learning, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2019.
CSC 547/747 Network Forensics and Investigation, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2017-2022.
CSC 546/746 Artificial Intelligence, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2018.
CSC 520/720 Multimedia System and Forensics, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2018-2022.
CSC 310 Data Structures, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2017-2019, Spring 2018, 2019, 2022.
CSC 495 Independent Study (Undergraduate), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2022
CSC 890 Independent Study (Graduate), Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
INF 307 Cyberspace Security and Ethics, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Fall 2020, Spring 2021
INF 104 Computer Literacy with Software Applications, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Spring 2018, Fall 2017.
Grants/Awards/Recognitions
GCU Summer Research Grant Award ($5000.00), April, 2025.
GCU Faculty Mini Grant Award ($500.00), March, 2025.
Recognition of Most Valuable Professor, GCU Student-Athlete Department,December, 2024
GCU Faculty Mini Grant Award ($500.00), November, 2024.
ICUNJ Undergraduate Research Symposium Award ($3,432.91), November, 2024
NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Sponsored Program ($2,000), October, 2024
Battelle-EKU Science Scholars Program ($3,500), May 2021, 2022.
NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium Sponsored Program ($2,000), 2024
EKU Student Research Grant Award ($497.00), January, 2022.
AWS Educate, April 2021
EKU COS Junior Faculty Summer Research Award ($4,500), March 2018.
EKU Faculty Mini-Grant (PI: Dae Wook Kim; $2,886), December 2017.
EKU Faculty Development Grant, October 2018, 2017.
NVIDIA GPU Grant program, August 2017.
The AWS Cloud Credits for Research 2016 recipient.
Professional Development Grant, Wright State University GSA, Fall 2015.
Professional Services & Associations
Session Chair: ACMSE 2018
Program Committee: ACMSE 2026, 2025, 2024, ICDIS (2022, 2020, 2018)
Reviewer: MLIS 2023, GSU Foundation Scholarship 2023, ICDIS 2022, ACM TMIS 2019, COSE (2019, 2018), PyOhio 2019, EKU CS 2019, IEEE Access (2024, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018), JISA 2017
Subreviewer: NCS 2018, ACMSE 2018
External Reviewer: Hillcrest High School (Queens, NY) 2024, SecureComm 2016, COSE 2016, IJNM 2016, IPCCC 2015, KNOSYS 2014, IET-IFS 2014, TDSC 2014, TIFS 2014
Grant Reviewer:
Kentucky Academy of Science Research Grants, 2021
Poster Judge:
LISEF, Woodbury, NY, 2024, 2025
Virtual eCYBERMISSION, March 13-27, 2024
Concept Science & Engineering Fair, Rosemont, IL, 2023
Illinois LSAMP Symposium, 2023
Kentucky Academy of Science Annual Meeting, 2021
Kentucky Science & Engineering Fair, Richmond, KY 2018, 2021.
1st Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 2017.
Member:
Member, School Curriculum Committee, Georgian Court University, Sept. 2024 -.
Mentor, Technology and Engineering Research Toolkit Program, Chicago State University, IL March 2023 -.
Association for Computing Machinery, Feb. 2018-.
IEEE Computer Society, Feb. 2018-.
Member, Technology Advisory Committee, Governors State University, May 2023 - 2025.
Member, DSMT Curriculum Committee, Governors State University, Fall 2022 - 2024.
Kentucky Cyber Threat Working Group, Kentucky Office of Homeland Security, Aug. 2017 - May 2022.
Kentucky High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), July 2017 - May 2022.
Budget Committee, EKU Computer Science Dept., 2018 - 2020.
Member, Curriculum Committee, EKU College of Science, 2020 - May 2022.
Member, Research and Faculty Development Committee, EKU College of Science, 2019 - May 2022.
Alternative, Research and Faculty Development Committee, EKU College of Science, 2018 - 2019.
Coordinator, Artificial Intelligence in Data Science Concentration, EKU Computer Science Dept., 2018 - May 2022.
Organizer, EKU Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Team, Computer Science Dept., October 1, 2018 - May 2022.
Graduate Faculty, EKU Graduate School, Spring 2021, - Spring 2023.
Kentucky Academy of Science, Nov., 2018 - May 2022.
ACM UPE, April, 2019 - May 2022.
Student Research Advising
Students
Andrew Harfenist, Accounting, Georgian Court University, Mar. 2025 - .
Alumni
Natalija Beleska, Computer Information Sciences, Georgian Court University, Nov. 2024 - May 2025.
Detecting Typosquatting in Python Packages Using Generative AI, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Bell works, Holmdel NJ, April 1, 2025.
Constantinos Kottas, Computer Information Sciences, Georgian Court University, Oct. 2024 - May 2025.
Clustering Urban Pollution Patterns: A Comparative Study of K-means and K-means++ in U.S. Cities, NASA New Jersey Space Grant Consortium, Rutgers University, Camden, April. 25, 2025.
Links
A list of security conferences that I am interested in.
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