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We are thrilled to share the wonderful news that Professor Rhongho Jang, a former member of our research lab, has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

His awarded project is titled

“CAREER: In-network GPU Integration for Vision-inspired Generative Inference.”

The NSF CAREER Award is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished honors for early-career faculty members in the United States. It recognizes not only exceptional research achievements, but also the promise to make lasting contributions through the integration of research and education.

Professor Jang built a strong academic foundation in our lab, and it has been a great joy to watch his growth as a scholar and researcher over the years. Seeing him receive this important recognition is both deeply meaningful and a source of great pride for all of us.

We warmly congratulate Professor Jang on this remarkable achievement. We are proud of his success, grateful to have been part of his academic journey, and confident that he will continue to make outstanding contributions to the research community.

We wish him every success in this exciting new chapter of his career.

Professor Nyang gave an interview to the Ewha Womans University Newspaper, where he shared his vision and aspirations as the Director of the Office of Information and Communications.

For more details, check this out!

Arriving San Diego.

A fine view from the hotel room.

Omar, the session chair and Sian

Sian giving a talk in the session

Sian giving a talk in the session

Our group just after Sian’s talk photographed by Prof. Heekuck Oh

Me and Aziz by the pool

Me photographed by Aziz at a coffee house

Me at the sunset cliff

NDSS 2023 (27 of Feb – 3 of March, 2023) was held at Catamaran hotel in San Diego, CA.

San Diego international airport T2

NDSS welcoming board

We (Sian, Jiyoo, and me) attended the conference. The welcoming board stood in the hotel lobby.

Lunch in the Mission beach with Jiyoo, me, Heekuk Oh (Hanyang Erica), SungHyun Cho (Hanyang Erica), Suel Son (KAIST).

JaeJong invited us a dinner in a sushi restaurant (Mizu). Unlike the name, the restaurant serves various Korean cuisine, which was very good. Thank you JaeJong!

Sian is giving a talk on Count-Less (A robust counting sketch for data plane intrusion detection).

After the talk, three of us took a walk to the Pacific beach pier.

We had a dinner in a ramen restaurant nearby, and I took a photo of sunset.

Me, Jiyoo, Jinchun at a restaurant in UCF, Orlando, FL, Feb. 7th, 2018 (I visited UCF for GRL workshop)

I am delighted to share this good news. Jinchun is going to join ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) in January 2023. Big congratulations to Jinchun!

He was one of my PhD students at Inha and also was co-advised by David@UCF starting in 2018. He obtained PhD degree (CS) in 2020, and then he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in Texas A&M University-Kingsville, TX, USA ( 2020 – 2022 ). His main research theme is block chain, IoT security, malware analysis, and Cyber-Physical System security. He is a hard-working researcher and successfully published 21 papers in top journals and conferences including Computer Networks, IEEE transactions on network and service management, IEEE IoT journal, IEEE Systems Journal, etc. Now, he is going to start another stage in his career in DaeJeon. I believe that he is gonna be good and successful as a researcher.

Congrats again Jinchun!

Sian gave a talk on PortCatcher in CCS 2022 in LA, US on the 10th of November, 2022.

A photo of the room “Museum A”. Sian is on the podium, and I was taking a photo of her (Left).

Rhongho, David, and me at a hotel lobby (Photographer was JeongHye.) It’s been quite a long time to gather together.

Sian, Juhee, JeongHye, and me in the banquet

Angels flight railway was just by our hotel. A scene from LaLa Land was filmed here.

Kichang Yang at Hyundai motor company gave a talk on vehicular security in cyber security department’s weekly colloquium at Ewha. His talk showed many interesting vehicular security issues as well as what to do to become a vehicular security engineer. It must be very helpful to young students as a career guidance. He has been leading a security group as a director of security division in HMC since 2016. His group is working on all aspects of vehicular security like hacking, reproducing reported vulnerabilities, regulations, and what not. We got to understand what are the issues in vehicular security, career path, and even how to do a good interview.

Every week, we will have an invited talk about various issues in security!

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Changhun Jung starts his career as a researcher at R&D center of Hyundai Motor Company.

He obtained M.S. and PhD degree in 2017 and 2022, respectively in my lab. His main research interests are authentication, network security, data plane security, AI-based attack detection, data structure and algorithm for high performance switch architecture. During his study, he published eight papers in top venues such as ICASSP (2018), AAAI AI for Social Good (2019), Computers and Security (2021), BMC Medical Imaging (2022), IEEE/IFIP DSN (2022), IEEE TMC (to appear), ACM CCS (2022), and NDSS (2023). He is one of the most earnest students in pursuing research goals I have ever seen, and I was able to get through a lot of difficulties we met during our research work owing to his earnest endeavors. Even though he is leaving us, we are going to collaborate on further research works.

Congratulations again to Changhun!

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/09/boffins_unveil_ssdinsider_promise_ransomware/

SSD-Insider (IEEE Trans on Computers) is on “The Register”, UK-based tech magazine!

You can take a look at the article titled “Boffins unveil SSD-Insider++, promise ransomware detection and recovery right in your storage” by Gareth Halfacree (Thank you Gareth!). Also, it is quite fun to read the readers’ comments in the article.

Also, ZDNet Korea interviewed me to introduce SSD-Insider, which can be found at

https://zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20210916105104

 Me, waiting for the award in NetSec-KR 2021 after keynote speech.

The vice-minister of science and ICT and me are pausing for photo taking.

The commendation certificate.

I was the awardee of Minister of Science and ICT’s commendation for best researchers.  The awarding ceremony was held in NetSec-KR 2021 at COEX today. I would like to share this honor with my colleagues and students, David, Jiyoo, Mohammed, Changhoon. Thank you for your support.

Update (2020. 9.1): Dr. Jang (Now, Prof. Jang) started his career as an assistant professor at Dept of Computer Science of Wayne State University. The photo is from the dept’s website.

I am very pleased to announce that Dr. RhongHo Jang has got an offer for an assistant professor position from Department of Computer Science of Wayne State University in midtown Detroit, Michigan. He will be joining Wayne State University this Summer. This is another big news in our group following Dr. Mohammed’s joining in Loyola University Chicago and Dr. Tamer’s joining in SKKU in Korea. Rhongho started his research career as an MS student in my lab in September of 2013. He continued his study as a PhD in 2015 and also joined the dual degree program with University of Central Florida in Fall of 2018 under the co-supervision of Prof. David Mohaisen.

Dr. Jang’s main research area include network traffic measurement, sampling theory, network architecture, network/system/mobile security, and deep learning based security. During his PhD study, he published three INFOCOM papers, three ICDCS papers, and one in IEEE TMC. He got the PhD degree from Inha this Spring, and now he is graduating this coming Summer from UCF. He is now commencing a new career as a professor at Wayne State University, and he is expected to make more and better outcomes in the new environment in Michigan.

Sponsored by Global Research Lab Fund of Korea’s NRF, we are making and will be making records even in education as well as in research.

Update (2020.9.12): Dr. Abuhamad (Now, Prof. Abuhamad) started his career as an assistant professor at Dept of Computer Science of Loyola University Chicago. The photo is from Prof. Abuhamad, and the profile is from the dept’s website.

I am pleased to announce that Mohammed Abuhamad, one of my excellent students is going to join Computer Science Department of Loyola University Chicago this fall semester. He signed the final offer today from Loyola and completed the contract. Loyola is ranked #104 by USNews.

He joined my group in September 2016 as a PhD student, and started a dual degree program under the supervision of David Mohaisen at UCF in 2018 Fall. During his PhD study, he published actively lots of works on security research taking advantage of his comprehensive knowledge on AI and machine learning. One of his works is the 2018 ACM CCS paper entitled “Large-Scale and Language-Oblivious Code Authorship Identification“, and other than that, he is publishing our work at Privacy Enhancing Technology (just accepted), IEEE ICDCS, IEEE IoT Journal, Future Generation Computer Systems. He is graduating this semester and he is going to start a new career as an assistant professor at Loyola. I am very proud of him together with David Mohaisen who is another advisor of Mohammed supporting him at UCF.

Congratulations to Mohammed!

I attended IEEE DSC 2019 in Hangzhou with Aziz.

We’ve got a best paper award (runnerup) in the conference.

Changhoon gave a talk on our paper “W-Net: A CNN-based Architecture for White Blood Cells Image Classification” in AAAI-FSS for Social Goods 2019 at Arlington, VA, USA.