Hocheol Nam (남호철)

Ph.D. candidate

1420, N4 bldg., KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea (34141)

I'm a Ph.D. student at KAIST, advised by Prof. Min Suk Kang. I received my B.S. in Software Science at Dankook University, and I completed compulsory military service at the Capital Defense Command, R.O.K. Army.

Network security
- Software-defined network and programmable data plane security [NDSS'26]
- Cellular network security
- Satellite communication security
Blockchain and distributed system security [ICSE'25] [CCS'25] [FC'22]

On the Security Risks of Memory Adaptation and Augmentation in Data-plane DoS Mitigation [NDSS'26](To appear)

Hocheol Nam, Daehyun Lim, Huancheng Zhou, Guofei Gu, and Min Suk Kang
In Proceedings of the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 2026

On Frontrunning Risks in Batch-Order Fair Systems for Blockchain [CCS'25] (PDF)(Full version)

Eunchan Park, Taeung Yoon, Hocheol Nam, Deepak Maram, and Min Suk Kang
In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Taipei, Taiwan, Oct. 2025.

Fork State-Aware Differential Fuzzing for Blockchain Consensus Implementations [ICSE'25] (PDF)

Wonhoi Kim*, Hocheol Nam*, Muoi Tran, Amin Jalilov, Zhenkai Liang, Sang Kil Cha, and Min Suk Kang
- (*Co-first authors)
In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Ottawa, ON, Canada, Apr 2025.

Short Paper: On the Claims of Weak Block Synchronization in Bitcoin [FC'22] (PDF)

Seungjin Baek*, Hocheol Nam*, Yongwoo Oh, Muoi Tran, and Min Suk Kang
- (*Co-first authors)
In Proceedings of the IFCA 26th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), St. George's, Grenada, May 2022.

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