Associate Professor (continuing appointment)
(Reader in the UK) in School of EECS, UQ.
Deputy Director, UQ Cyber Security Centre, UQ.
Lead, Dependable and Secure systems Lab (DSL), UQ.
Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching, University of Canterbury, 2017
2008-2011, Postdoc, Duke University, USA
Jan-Dec 2007, Visiting scholar, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, USA
B.S. (2001), M.S. (2003), Ph.D (2008). all from KAU, South Korea. (Among universities specialized in aerospace and aviation, KAU is widely regarded as the leading institution in Korea. )
Building 78; room 440 (UQ Cyber space),
The University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia
Email: dan Y kim X uq Y edu Y au (where X = AT and Y = DOT)
Links: Google Scholar, DBLP (publications), LinkedIn, Facebook.
Dr. Dan Dongseong Kim is an Associate Professor (equivalent to UK Reader) (continuing academic) and Deputy Director of UQ Cyber at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia since 2019. Prior to UQ, he led the Cybersecurity Lab. at The University of Canterbury (UC), Christchurch, New Zealand from August 2011 to Dec 2018. He was a Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at UC. He was a visiting scholar at The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland in the US in 2007. From 2008 to 2011, he was a postdoc at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in the US. His research interests are in cybersecurity and dependability for various systems and networks.
Dr. Dan Dongseong Kim is the Deputy Director of UQ Cybersecurity and an Associate Professor (in the commonwealth system, broadly equivalent to a North American full professor) with a continuing appointment in Cyber Security at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. In his current role, he is dedicated to advancing research and education in cybersecurity, focusing on the security and dependability of various systems and networks.
Before joining UQ, Dr. Kim was a faculty member at The University of Canterbury (UC) in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 2011 to 2018. During his tenure at UC, he served as a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security from 2015 to 2018 and as a Lecturer from 2011 to 2014 in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. His leadership in the Cyber Security field at UC was marked by significant contributions to research and teaching.
Dr. Kim's academic journey includes a postdoctoral position at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, from 2008 to 2011. Prior to that, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, in 2007. These experiences allowed him to collaborate with leading experts and expand his research horizons.
His research interests lie in Cyber Security and Dependability for various systems and networks. He has a particular focus on developing robust security mechanisms for critical infrastructure, IoT devices, and networked systems. His work aims to enhance the resilience and reliability of these systems against cyber threats, ensuring their safe and secure operation.
Dr. Kim has an impressive publication record, with over 185 publications and more than 7000 citations. His Google Scholar profile boasts an h-index of 41 and an i10-index of 117. Some of his notable research focuses include:
Graphical Models for Cyber Security: Model-based Cyber Security Risk Analysis
AI for Cybersecurity & Cyber Security for AI: Securing AI systems and Cybersecurity using AI techniques
Moving Target Defense (MTD): Resilient and Proactive Defence
Evolving Attacks and Defense Automation: Red team and Blue team Automation and evaluation using AI
Dr. Kim is actively involved in professional activities, serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, an Editorial Board Member for Elsevier Computers and Security, and Elsevier Computer Networks. He is also an elected member of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance and serves on several steering committees, including IFIP/IEEE DSN and IEEE PRDC.
Dr. Kim's research has been supported by various sponsors, including NSF (US), IBM T.J. Watson (US), US Army Research Lab./DEVCOM-Pacific (US), NEC (Japan), Tait Communications (NZ), MBIE (NZ), NPRP (Qatar), ADD (Republic of Korea), and NRF (Republic of Korea).
As for his academic genealogy, his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Professor Jong Sou Park (Pennsylvania State University, 1994); his one was Paul Thomas Hulina (Pennsylvania State University, 1969); then it runs back through Jon G. Bredeson (Northwestern University, 1967), Seifollah Louis Hakimi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1959), Mac Van Valkenburg (Stanford University, 1952), Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. (Stanford University,1949), Frederick Emmons Terman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1924, Sc.D.) and Vannevar Bush (MIT, 1916) to Arthur Edwin Kennelly (self-taught) (who was working in Thomas Edison's West Orange Laboratory from December 1887 to March 1894) and Duglad C. Jacson.
His postdoc advisor is Kishor S. Trivedi (UIUC, 1974) who is the Hudson Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, USA.
Please visit the academic tree from Duglad C. Jackson to all the way up to the ancestors at: academic tree (link).
Journal editorships
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor: 25.249 (2021), #1 impact factor among all the IEEE journals), 2021 - present.
Editorial Board Member, Elsevier Computers and Security (impact factor: 4.438), 2019 - present.
Editorial Board Member, Elsevier Computer Networks (impact factor: 4.474), April 2022 - present.
International Conference organization (selected)
2025, General co-chair, The IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2025), 2–4 , July 2025, Gold Coast, Australia.
2024, General chair, The IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2024, June 2024, Brisbane, Australia.
2019, General co-chair of The 24th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2019), July, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand
2017, General chair of The 22nd IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2017) in January, 2017 in Christchurch, New Zealand
2023, Program co-chair, the 42nd the International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 2023 (SRDS 2023) (https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/srds/2023/291000z010/1UoH0DBHAMU)
2019, Program Co-Chair, The IEEE International Congress on Internet Of Things (IEEE ICIOT 2019), July 8th-13th, 2019, Milano, Italy. [a top tier IoT international conference]
2019, Security track co-chair, IEEE Int. Sym. On Trusted Computing (TrustCom) 2019 [CORE Rank A]
2015, Program Co-Chair, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Automatic and Secure Computing (DASC)/The 11th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security.
Student paper co-chair, The 43rd IEEE/IFIP Int. Conf. on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2013) [CORE Rank A* in 2013]
Workshop organization (selected)
Program co-chair, The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec) 2016
Conference/workshop technical program committee (selected)
The IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2019-2020) [CORE Rank A]; one and only TPC member from Australia (from 2019-2020).
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2020) [CORE Rank A]
ICDCS 2020 (The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems) [CORE Rank A]
The 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2017-2019 [CORE Rank A]
The 36th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2017,2019 [CORE Rank A]
The IEEE Int. Sym. On Trusted Computing (TrustCom) 2009-2017, 2019 [CORE Rank A]
The International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec) 2014-2017, 2019 [Prestigious graphical security modeling workshop]
Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP) 2016-present [CORE Australasian]
The IEEE Conf. on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2009 – 2014 [CORE Rank A]