Hyungjoon (Kevin) Koo
Associate Professor in SKKU (kevin.koo AT skku.edu); 27316B, 2nd Eng. Bldg., Natural Science Campus, Sungkyunkwan University (2066 Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon, South Korea)
I am an associate professor in Computer Science and Engineering at College of Computing in Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). Currently, I am leading SecAI Lab at SKKU. I was a postdoctoral researcher at SSLab in Georgia Tech, working with Taesoo Kim. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS) from Stony Brook University (adviser: Michalis Polychronakis). I received the M.Sc. degree in Information Security from Korea University, working at the Digital Forensics Lab (DFRC) with Sangjin Lee. I studied computer science in the University of Texas at Austin as an exchange student. I also had worked for Samsung SDS and Shinhan bank in a security team. I am fortunate to have a variety of interesting experiences from both industrial and academic sides in the security field, thanks to the great people who led me.
With the Internet of Things, security matters everywhere by getting more connected each other ever. So I wanted to make this space reserved for writing down stuff (security findings, knowledge I often forget, what I have done for fun and so on). I like dealing with practical security which impacts on human’s life, based upon theory.
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence for Security
- Binary Analysis and Protection
- Software Security
- Digital Forensics
- Anonymity VS Censorship
- Malware Analysis
- Insider Threat and Profiling
- Internet of Things Security
- Visualization for Security
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News
| Dec 22, 2025 | Our paper, Fool Me If You Can: On the Robustness of Binary Code Similarity Detection Models against Semantics-preserving Transformations has been accepted to FSE ‘26! |
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| Dec 8, 2025 | Our paper, UnPII: Unlearning Personally Identifiable Information with Quantifiable Exposure Risk, has been accepted to ICSE-SEIP ‘26! |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Our paper, A Deep Dive into Function Inlining and its Security Implications, has been accepted to NDSS ‘26! |
| Oct 15, 2025 | Our paper, A Decade-long Landscape of Advanced Persistent Threats: Longitudinal Analysis and Global Trends, received a Distinguished Paper Award at CCS ‘25! |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Our paper, Rescuing the Unpoisoned: Efficient Defense against Knowledge Corruption Attacks on RAG Systems, has been accepted to ACSAC 25! |
Latest posts
| May 23, 2018 | Compiler-assisted Code Randomization |
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| Sep 5, 2017 | ELF Sections for Exception Handling |
| Nov 11, 2016 | Dynamic Linking in ELF |