Short Bio

I have been an Assistant Professor of the School of Software at Kwangwoon University since March 2022. Before joining here, I obtained my Ph.D. in the School of Electrical Engineering and a master's degree in the Graduate School of Information Security from KAIST. I received my B.S. from Chungnam National University. My research interests broadly include cloud computing and network systems security.

Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  • Dissertation: Securing Software-Defined WAN Through Analyzing Network Attack Surfaces

  • Advisor: Seungwon Shin

• Master's in Information Security

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  • Advisor: Seungwon Shin

• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering

  • Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Publication

• SecTracer: A Framework for Uncovering the Root Causes of Network Intrusions via Security Provenance (paper)
  Seunghyeon Lee*, Hyunmin Seo*, Hwanjo Heo, Anduo Wang, Seungwon Shin, and Jinwoo Kim
  Elsevier Computers & Security
  (*co-first authors)

• PassREfinder-FL: Privacy-Preserving Credential Stuffing Risk Prediction via Graph-Based Federated Learning for Representing Password Reuse between Websites (paper)
  Jaehan Kim, Minkyoo Song, Minjae Seo, Youngjin Jin, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim
  Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications

• Noisy Neighbor: Exploiting RDMA for Resource Exhaustion Attacks in Containerized Clouds (paper)
  Gunwoo Kim, Taejune Park, Jinwoo Kim
  The 4th International Workshop on System Security Assurance (SecAssure, colocated with ESORICS) 2025

• The Hidden Dangers of Public Serverless Repositories: An Empirical Security Assessment (paper)
  Eduard Marin, Jinwoo Kim, Alessio Pavoni, Mauro Conti, Roberto Di Pietro
  The 30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2025

• CryptoGuard: Lightweight Hybrid Detection and Response to Host-based Cryptojackers in Linux Cloud Environments (paper)
  Gyeonghoon Park, Jaehan Kim, Jinu Choi, Jinwoo Kim
  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2025

• (Poster) Illusion Worlds: Deceptive UI Attacks in Social VR (paper)
  Junhee Lee, Hwanjo Heo, Seungwon Woo, Minseok Kim, Jongseop Kim, Jinwoo Kim
  IEEE VR 2025

• MUFFLER: Secure Tor Traffic Obfuscation with Dynamic Connection Shuffling and Distributing (paper)  (slide)
  Minjae Seo*, Myungsung You*, Jaehan Kim, Taejune Park, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2025
  (*co-first authors)

• Uncovering Threats in Container Systems: A Study on Misconfigured Container Components in the Wild (paper)
  Dongmin Choi*, Hyunmin Seo*, Kwangwoo Kim, Myungsung You, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim
  IEEE Access (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Q2)
  (*co-first authors)

• (Poster) EO-VLM: VLM-Guided Energy Overload Attacks on Vision Models* (paper) (poster)
  Minjae Seo, Myoungsung You, Junhee Lee, Jaehan Kim, Hwanjo Heo, Jintae Oh, Jinwoo Kim
  The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2024
  (*Best Poster Presentation Award)

• gShock: A GNN-based Fingerprinting System for Permissioned Blockchain Networks over Encrypted Channels (paper)
  Minjae Seo*, Jaehan Kim*, Myoungsung You, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim
  IEEE Access (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Q2)
  (*co-first authors)

• CENSor: Detecting Illicit Bitcoin Operation via GCN-based Hyperedge Classification (paper)
  Suyeol Lee*, Jaehan Kim*, Minjae Seo, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin, and Jinwoo Kim
  IEEE Access (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Q2)
  (*co-first authors)

• Fatriot: Fault-Tolerant MEC Architecture for Mission-Critical Systems using a SmartNIC (paper)
  Taejune Park,  Myoungsung You,  Jinwoo Kim*, Seungsoo Lee*
  (*co-corresponding authors)
  Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) 2024 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Q1)

• Ambusher: Exploring the Security of Distributed SDN Controllers through Protocol State Fuzzing (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Minjae Seo, Eduard Marin, Seungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Nam, and Seungwon Shin
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) 2024 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Q1)

• Enhancing Security in SDN: Systematizing Attacks and Defenses from a Penetration Perspective (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Minjae Seo, Seungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Nam, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Guofei Gu, Seungwon Shin
  Elsevier Computer Networks 2024 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q1)

• Poster: Towards a Secure and Practical System to Obfuscate Tor Network Traffic (paper) (poster)
  Minjae Seo*, Myoungsung You*, Taejune Park, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim**
  The 8th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) 2023
  (*co-first authors, **corresponding author)

• Systematizing Attacks and Defenses in Software-Defined Networking: A Survey (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Minjae Seo, Seungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Nam, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Guofei Gu, Seungwon Shin
  TechRxiv (preprint)

• Extended SDN Data Plane Architecture for In-Network Security Services (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Yeonkeun Kim, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin, Taejune Park
  Elsevier Computers & Security 2022 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q2)

• Towards Building Secure and Reconfigurable Virtual Networks on Multi-Tenant Data Centers (paper) (slide)
  Jinwoo Kim, Jaehyun Nam
  IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC) Fast Abstract 2022

• Extended SDN Data Plane Architecture for In-Network Security Services (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Yeonkeun Kim, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin, Taejune Park
  Elsevier Computers & Security 2022 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q2)

• Heimdallr: Fingerprinting SD-WAN Control-Plane Architecture via Encrypted Control Traffic (paper) (slide)
  Minjae Seo, Jaehan Kim, Eduard Marin, Myoungsung You, Taejune Park, Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Shin, Jinwoo Kim
  The Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022 (Acceptance rate: 24%, one of top-tier security conferences)

• EqualNet: A Secure and Practical Defense for Long-term Network Topology Obfuscation (paper)(slide)
  Jinwoo Kim, Eduard Marin, Mauro Conti, Seungwon Shin
  The Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022 (Acceptance rate: 16.2%, one of top-tier security conferences)

• A Framework for Policy Inconsistency Detection in Software-Defined Networks (paper)
  Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Woo, Jinwoo Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2022 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q1)

• BottleNet: Hiding Network Bottlenecks Using SDN-Based Topology Deception (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Suyeol Lee, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2021 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q1)

• AudiSDN: Automated Detection of Network Policy Inconsistencies in Software-Defined Networks (paper)
  Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Woo, Jinwoo Kim, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020

• GapFinder: Finding Inconsistency of Security Information From Unstructured Text (paper)
  Hyeonseong Jo, Jinwoo Kim, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2020 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q1)

• A Comprehensive Security Assessment Framework for Software-Defined Networks (paper)
  Seungsoo Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Woo, Changhoon Yoon, Sandra Scott-Hayward, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Seungwon Shin
  Elsevier Computers & Security 2020 (SCIE Journal, JCR JIF Quartile Q2)

• Re-checker: Towards Secure Restful Service in Software-Defined Networking (paper)
  Seungwon Woo, Seungsoo Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) 2018

• Software-Defined HoneyNet: Towards Mitigating Link Flooding Attacks (paper)
  Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin
  IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W) 2017

• Athena: A Framework for Scalable Anomaly Detection in Software-Defined Networks (paper)
  Seunghyeon Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran
  IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2017

Talk

• Development of a Cryptojacking Detection and Prevention System in Cloud Environments” (link)
  2024 Technical Seminar & Communication Day for Information Security Professionals,
  Women’s Committee of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology (KIISC), Aug. 2024

• Analysis of Potential Vulnerabilities in Distributed SDN Controllers within SD-WAN Environments
  Seminar on Latest 5G Technologies: Network Security and SLAM,
  ETRI Honam Research Center, Oct. 2022

• (Briefing) The Finest Penetration Testing Framework for Software-Defined Networks (link)
  Seungsoo Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Woo, Seungwon Shin
  Black Hat, Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 2018

• (Arsenal) DELTA: SDN Security Evaluation Framework (link)
  Jinwoo Kim, Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Woo, Seungwon Shin
  Black Hat, Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 2018

• (Arsenal) DELTA: SDN Security Evaluation Framework (link)
  Jinwoo Kim, Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Woo, Seungwon Shin
  Black Hat, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 2017

Experience

• Conference Committee:

  • Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) 2023 TPC

• Conference Reviewer:

  • IEEE VR 2026 (external reviewer)

• Journal Reviewer:

  • Elsevier Computers & Security (COSE)

  • Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)

  • Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)

  • Elsevier Reliability Engineering and System Safety (RESS)

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

  • ACM Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP)

• Research Observer (Supervisor: Phillip Porras)
  SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, Summer 2019

• Research Observer (Supervisor: Phillip Porras)
  SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, Winter 2017

Award

• 29th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (Bronze Prize)
  Jaehan Kim, Myungsung Yoo, Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin

• 28th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (Silver Prize)
  Jinwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin

• 2021 Cybersecurity Paper Competition (Encouragement Award)
  Minjae Seo, Jinwoo Kim, Jae-han Kim, Taejun Park, Myungsung Yoo, Seungwon Shin

• 2021 KIISC Honam Branch Paper Competition (Grand Prize)
  Myungsung Yoo, Jinwoo Kim, Taejun Park, Seungwon Shin

• 26th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award (Silver Prize)
  Jinwoo Kim, Sooyoul Lee, Jaehyun Nam, Seungwon Shin