Inprogress

📚 Researching on Improving the Scalability of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus (Under Review)

📚 Researching on Automatic Detection and Analysis of Price Manipulation Attack in DeFi

📚 Researching on DeFi Vulnerability detection techiniques

📚 Researching on LLM Prompt Injection Dtection and Prevention

📚 Researching on Decentralized ID Threat Modeling and Security Framework

Education

🏫 [2024.09~] M.S. Candidate in Convergence Security Engineering, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea (Advisor: Il-Gu Lee) (GPA 4.5/4.5)

🏫 [2019.03~2023.02] B.S. in Convergence Security Engineering, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea (GPA 4.32/4.5)

Experience

Research Experience

🥼 [2022.03~2023.01] Undergraduate Internship at Pwnlab, Sungshin Women's University (Advisor: Dae-Hee Jang)

🥼 [2022.01-2022.02] Undergraduate Internship at NSSec, Sungshin Women's University (Advisor: Sung-Min Kim)

🥼 [2021.03-2021.12] Undergraduate Internship at CSE Lab, Sungshin Women's University (Advisor: Il-Gu Lee)

Working Experience

🏢 [2024.03-06] Community Manager for Protocol Camp 6th, Hanwha Life (Dreamplus)

🏢 [2022.07] Assistant of Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology(WISET) Education Program, Sungshin Women's University

Publication

Journals

📄 Nam-Ryeong Kim, Dong-Ju Ryu, Il-Gu Lee, "Code Similarity-Based Framework for Smart Contract Attack Surface Analysis", Journal of Korea Information Assurance Society, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2024 (KCI). 

📄 Eun-Young Lee, Nam-Ryeong Kim, Chae-Rim Han, and Il-Gu Lee, "Evaluation and Comparative Analysis of Scalability and Fault Tolerance for Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant based Blockchain", Journal of the Korea Institute of Informaiton and Communication Engineering (JKIICE), Vol. 26, No. 2, 2022 (KCI).

Conference

🎤 Nam-ryeong Kim, Il-gu Lee, "A Fault-Tolerant Consensus Mechanism for Scalable and Reliable Blockchain Systems", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Technology - Pacific (ICCT-Pacific) 2025, Matsue Shimane, Japan, Mar. 31. 2025.

🥇 Nam-ryeong Kim, Dong-ju Ryu, and Il-gu Lee, "Method for detecting attack surface in smart contract using code similarity techniques," Korea Convergence Security Association 2024 Autumn Conference, The Korea Convergence Security Association, Nov. 8, 2024. 

🎤 Nam-ryeong Kim, Il-gu Lee, "Reliable Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance Mechanism for High Throughput and Low Latency Blockchain Consensus", WISA 2024, Aug. 22. 2024 (Poster)

🥉 Nam-ryeong Kim, Na-ra Im, "A Study on the analysis of security threats and measures in Metaverse," Korea Convergence Security Association 2022 Summer Conference, The Korea Convergence Security Association, Jul. 24. 2022

🎤 Eun-yeong Ahn, Nam-ryeong Kim, Na-ra Lim, Ji-sun Kim, Kyung-jin Kim, Dae-hee Jang, "Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Security Measures in OAuth 2.0," CISC-S'22 (Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Summer 2022) ,KIISC (Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology) 

🎤 Nam-ryeong Kim, Ji-won Ock(*co-first), Seong-min Kim, "Secure de-identification for data privacy with SGX-based Artificial intelligence learning framework," KCSE 2022(The 24th Korea Conference on Software Engineering), Jan. 2022. 

🥇 Eun-young Lee, Nam-ryeong Kim, Chae-rim Han, and Il-gu Lee, "Evaluation Framework for Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant based Consensus Algorithms," The 50th Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (KIICE) Conference, Oct. 28, 2021. 

Mentoring(Mentor)

🎤 Hyo-Been Cho, Nam-ryeong Kim, Il-gu Lee, "Network-Coding Based Mulwti-Link Transmission for Inter-Satellite Communications", ASK 2025(Annual Symposium of KIPS 2025), May. 31. 2025.

🎤 Hyo-Been Cho, Nam-ryeong Kim, Sun-woo Jeong, Il-gu Lee, "Enhancing DeFi Smart Contract Security via LangChain and Retrieval-Augmented Generation", World Conference on Information Security Applications 2025(WISA), Jeju, Aug. 21. 2025.

Honors and Awards

Awards

🥇 Best Paper Award, 2024, KCGSA President, in Korea Convergence Security Association 2024 Autumn Conference

🥇 The First Prize, 2024, 2024 Convergence Security Creative Software Competition

🥇 The First Prize, 2024, Protocol Camp 5th with Dreamplus X HASHED

🥇 The First Prize, 2023, Sungshin CSE x I.Sly() CTF

🥉 Participation Award, 2022, by The Korea Convergence Security Association, in Korea Convergence Security Association 2022 Summer Conference

🥇 Excellent Paper Award, 2021, KIICE President, in the 50th Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering (KIICE) Conference. 

Certificate

🗂️ [2024.09] Engineer Information Processing, Human Resources Development Service of Korea

Professional Activity 

Major Club

🔮 [2021.01~2022.12] HASH, a Hacking Club in Sungshin Women's University

  🔮 Founding Member

🔮 [2021.03~2021.12] The vice president of HASH

    🔮 [2022.01~2022.12] The president of HASH

External Activities

💻 [2025.06~2025.11] Convergence Security Crew, Learned how to detect DeFi Vulnerabilities with LLM and prevent LLM Prompt Injection (Team Leader)

💻 [2023.09~2023.12] ProtocolCamp 5th, Developed a VSCode security assistant that provides real-time security analysis for smart contract development and testing (Team Leader)

💻 [2023.03~2023.06] DreamPlusAcademy, Learned cutting-edge blockchain security skills, developed static analysis-based automated smart contract vulnerability detector

CTF

💻 [2023.1.16] Team 역은카와 아이들, Sungshin CSE x I.Sly() CTF, 1st

💻 [2021.11.11] Team HAC, Power of XX, Korea, 8th

Press