Dr. KANG received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS) from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, where he also served as the director of the Graduate School of Information Security and is the director of the Cyber Systems Security Lab (CysecLab, https://cysec.kaist.ac.kr https://cysec.kr). The CysecLab aims to research system design and defense technologies that enable existing computer systems, which are inherently vulnerable, to remain secure against current and future cyber threats.
The main research areas are the design of secure system defense technologies such as OS kernel integrity monitor, hardware-based trusted execution environment, memory address translation integrity, code reuse attack defense, ghost servers, dialect computing. Some highlights can be found at KAIST Innovation Research (http://breakthroughs.kaist.ac.kr/?post_no=163). Recently, CysecLab has been conducting research on security threat defense for AI computing systems based on confidential computing and trusted execution environment.
He received the Ministerial Award for Meritorious Service in Information Security from the Ministry of Science and ICT for his contribution to research and education to foster advanced human resources in information security.
His international activities include program committee positions at the top information security conferences, IEEE Security and Privacy, ACM CCS, USENIX SECURITY, and NDSS, and he recently gave an invited talk at the CMU CyLab Distinguished Seminar.