About Me
About Me
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Hyungseok Kim is an Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University, where he leads the SWSEC Lab. His research interests lie at the intersection of systems and software security, with a particular focus on binary analysis, automated vulnerability detection, and software hardening. His work has been published in top-tier venues such as USENIX Security, FSE, ISSTA, and ASPLOS. Notably, his recent work received the Distinguished Paper Award at ISSTA 2024. He received his Ph.D. degree in the Graduate School of Information Security (GSIS) from KAIST in 2024.
Prior to joining Chungnam National University, he worked at the National Security Research Institute (NSR), where he was responsible for analyzing network systems. He also has deep expertise in binary rewriting and system software, including the Linux kernel and compilers.
Education
Education
Ph.D. in the Graduation School of Information Security (GSIS), KAIST, Feb. 2024
✓ Advisor: Sang Kil Cha
✓ Thesis: Towards Reliable Reassembly with Hardware-assisted Stateless CFI
✓ Thesis Committee: Brent ByungHoon Kang, Insik Shin, Youngjin Kwon, and Kangkook Jee
M.S. in the School of Computing, KAIST, Feb. 2012
✓ Advisor: Daeyoung Kim
✓ Thesis: IPR: Incremental Path Reduction Algorithm for Tree-based Routing in Low-Rate Wireless Mesh Networks
B.S. in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Soongsil University, Feb. 2010
Work Experiences
Work Experiences
Assistant Professor at Chungnam National University (CNU), Sep. 2025 ~ Current
Senior Researcher at the National Security Research Institute (NSR), Jan. 2016 ~ Aug. 2025
Researcher at the National Security Research Institute (NSR), Dec. 2011 ~ Dec. 2015
Undergraduate Researcher Assistant at Samsung Electronics Software Membership, Jan. 2008 ~ May. 2009
Undergraduate Researcher Assistant at System Software Lab in Soongsil University, Sep. 2007 ~ Dec. 2008
Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Paper Award, National Security Research Institute (NSR), 2024
Director's Commendation, National Information Service (NIS), 2024
ACM Distinguished Paper Award, ISSTA, 2024
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, KAIST, 2024
National Full Scholarship, KAIST, 2010 ~ 2012
Academic Scholarship, Soongsil University, 4 Semesters
Publications
Publications
International Conferences
Hyungseok Kim, Soomin Kim, and Sang Kil Cha, "Towards Sound Reassembly of Modern x86-64 Binaries," In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025, pages 1317-1333, 2025. [paper]
Hyungseok Kim, Soomin Kim, Jungwoo Lee, and Sang Kil Cha, "AsFuzzer: Differential Testing of Assemblers with Error-Driven Grammar Inference," In Proceedings of ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), pages 1099-1111, 2024. (🏆 Distinguished Paper Award) [paper]
Soomin Kim, Hyungseok Kim, and Sang Kil Cha, "FunProbe: Probing Functions from Binary Code through Probabilistic Analysis," In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), pages 1419-1430, 2023. [paper]
Hyungseok Kim, Soomin Kim, Junoh Lee, Kangkook Jee, and Sang Kil Cha, "Reassembly is Hard: A Reflection on Challenges and Strategies," In Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), pages 1469-1486, 2023. [paper]
Hyungseok Kim, Junoh Lee, Soomin Kim, SeungIl Jung, and Sang Kil Cha, "How’d Security Benefit Reverse Engineers? The Implication of Intel CET on Function Identification," In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems Networks (DSN), pages 559–566, 2022. [paper]
Minkeun Ha, Seong Hoon Kim, Hyungseok Kim, Kiwoong Kwon, Nam Giang, and Daeyoung Kim, "SNAIL Gateway: Dual-mode Wireless Access Points for WiFi and IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks in The Internet of Things," In Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), pages 169–173, 2012. [paper]
Hyungseok Kim, Seong Hoon Kim, Minkeun Ha, Taehong Kim, and Daeyoung Kim, "IPR: Incremental Path Reduction Algorithm for Tree-based Routing in Low-rate Wireless Mesh Networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pages 2300–2305, 2012. [paper]
International Journals
Jungwoo Yang, Hyungseok Kim, Sangwon Park, Changki Hong, and Insik Shin, "Implementation of Compositional Scheduling Framework on Virtualization," ACM SIGBED Review, Volume 8, Issue 1, pages 30-37, 2011. [paper]
Domestic Conferences
Hyungseok Kim, Seungyeop Lee, Hyuntae Kim, and Sang Kil Cha, "Binary-Only Address Sanitizer," Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W), 2018.
Hyungseok Kim, Jinbock Lee, and Jaeyoung Choi. "Application Streaming System with Virtual Filesystem in Grid Environments," In the Conference on Korea Computer Congress (KCC), 2008.
Selected Talks
Selected Talks
Jan. 2025, Invited talk at Korea Conference on Software Engineering (KCSE)
Aug. 2019, Technical talk at Samsung Security Tech Forum (SSTF)
Academic Service
Academic Service
ISC 2025, Program Committee
ICSE 2025, Artifact Evaluation Committee
ACSAC 2023, Artifact Evaluation Committee
Contact
Contact
hyungseok.kim (at) cnu.ac.kr
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