About Me
I am an MS ECE student at UIUC, working with Professor Lav Varshney and Professor Daniel Alabi. I received my BS ECE with a minor in math also from UIUC this past May. I am interested in information theory, security and privacy, and ai/ml. I also have worked with Professor Muriel Medard and her group at MIT EECS for the past 3+ years. I am grateful to be supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Contact: bdkim4 [at] illinois [dot] edu - Google Scholar - CV - Linkedin
News
Jan. 2026
Submitted my second paper from my MS to ICML 2026. (arXiv coming soon)
Dec. 2025
Submitted my first paper from my MS to ISIT 2026. (arXiv)
Aug. 2025
Excited to start my MS at UIUC advised by Lav Varshney and Daniel Alabi!
Had a great summer doing research at MIT Lincoln Lab's Group 62 on Information theory and Statistical Signal Processing. Thank you to my colleagues and mentors at MIT LL.
Jun. 2025
Our work on utilizing coding to design an efficient hybrid KEM scheme was accepted to ITW '25 (arXiv)
May 2025
Graduated with a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UIUC!!
Apr. 2025
Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Mar. 2025
Happy to recieve the Edward C. Jordan Award from the Illinois ECE Department. Thank you to my mentors.
Jan. 2025
A preprint of my senior thesis / journal paper, which utilizes ML-based information theoretic metrics for cryptanalysis, is available on arxiv (arXiv)
Dec. 2024
Honored to be selected as a Finalist for the CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award
Aug. 2024
Had a great summer at MIT RLE's Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group. Thank you to Professor Médard and my Postdoc Dr. Vipindev Adat Vasudevan!
Mar. 2024
Honored to receive Donald L. Bitzer and H. Gene Slottow Creativity Award from the Illinois ECE Department.
Our work 'On the Benefits of Coding for Network Slicing' was accepted to IEEE ICC 2024 Workshop on XURLLC6G.
Feb. 2024
Our work on leveraging AES as error correction in IOT and crypto-mine were both presented at ITA 2024 as invited sessions.
Dec. 2023
Our work 'Crypto-mine' was accepted to IEEE ICASSP '24
Honors and Awards
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Apr. 2025
Five year fellowship from the national science foundation.
Edward C. Jordan Award, Apr. 2025
Awarded by UIUC’s ECE department for highest excellence in academics and research among the graduating undergraduate class.
CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award Finalist, Jan. 2025
Recognized by the computing research association as 1 of 30 finalists in North American colleges and universities for outstanding undergraduate research among all computing fields.
Outstanding Senior (Homecoming Court) Finalist, Aug. 2024
1 of 40 selected in UIUC’s class of 2025 for academic achievements, leadership, and community involvement.
Donald L. Bitzer and H. Gene Slottow Creativity Award, Apr. 2024
Awarded each year to the undergraduate student majoring in ECE that shows the most creativity in a design project.
Other
In my freetime, I enjoy playing basketball, weightlifting, hanging out with friends, and trying new foods. To the right is a picture of me with my dog Rosie.
