Yuseok Jeon (전유석)

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

[email: ysjeon@unist.ac.kr][CV][Google Scholar][GitHub]

I am looking for motivated collaborators (graduate students and undergraduate interns).

Feel free to contact me through email, if you’re interested in software and systems security.

• My research interests are all aspects of computer security including compiler-based, runtime-based, and language-based protection mechanisms and security policies.

• 2015.08 - 2020.12 Ph.D. in Computer Science, Purdue University, USA
• 2008.02 - 2010.02 M.S. in Computer and Communications Engineering, POSTECH, South Korea
• 2003.03 - 2007.08 B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, INHA University, South Korea

• 2021.02 - Present Assistant Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
• 2018.05 - 2018.08 Graduate Intern, Platform Security Division, Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA
• 2016.05 - 2016.08 Research Intern, Security Department, NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ, USA
• 2013.12 - 2015.06 Research Engineer, Software R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, South Korea
• 2010.02 - 2013.06 Research Engineer, National Security Research Institute, South Korea

• SwarmFlawFinder: Discovering and Exploiting Logic Flaws of Swarm Algorithms [ paper ]

  Chijung Jung, Ali Ahad, Yuseok Jeon, Yonghwi Kwon

  Proceeding of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2022

• Certified Malware in South Korea: A Localized Study of Breaches of Trust in Code-Signing PKI Ecosystem [ paper ]

  Bumjun Kwon, Sanghyun Hong, Yuseok Jeon, Doowon Kim

  Proceeding of International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS) 2021

• FuZZan: Efficient Sanitizer Metadata Design for Fuzzing [ paper | slide | code ]

  Yuseok Jeon, WookHyun Han, Nathan Burow, and Mathias Payer

  Proceeding of USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2020

• PoLPer: Process-Aware Restriction of Over-Privileged Setuid Calls in Legacy Applications [ paper | slide ]

  Yuseok Jeon, Junghwan Rhee, Chung Hwan Kim, Zhichun Li, Mathias Payer, Byoungyoung Lee, and Zhenyu Wu

  Proceeding of ACM Conf on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CodaSpy) 2019

• HexType: Efficient Detection of Type Confusion Errors for C++ [ paper | slide | code ]

  Yuseok Jeon, Priyam Biswas, Scott A. Carr, Byoungyoung Lee, and Mathias Payer

  Proceeding of ACM Conf on Computer and Communication Security (CCS) 2017

• TypeSan: Practical Type Confusion Detection [ paper | code ]

  Istvan Haller, Yuseok Jeon, Hui Peng, Mathias Payer, Cristiano Giuffrida, Herbert Bos, and Erik van der Kouwe

  Proceeding of ACM Conf on Computer and Communication Security (CCS) 2016

• A Distributed Monitoring Architecture for AMIs [ paper ]

  Incheol Shin, Junho Huh, Yuseok Jeon, and David M. Nicol

  Proceeding of Smart Energy Grid Security Workshop (In conjunction with CCS) 2013

• LT-OLSR: Attack-Tolerant OLSR against Link Spoofing [ paper ]

  Yuseok Jeon, Tae-Hyung Kim, Yuna Kim, and Jong Kim

  Proceeding of IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2012, Short Paper

• Sunghyun Yang (Researcher)
• Junesoo Kang (Undergraduate)
• Jiun Min (Undergraduate)
• Donhyeon Yu (Undergraduate)
• Gyohun Hwang (Undergraduate)
• Junwha Hong (Undergraduate, intern since 2020.12)
• Almas Abilkhanov (Undergraduate, intern since 2020.12)
• Nodirkhuja Khujaev (Undergraduate, intern since 2020.12)
• Azamat Myrzabekov (Undergraduate, intern since 2020.12)
• Bao Truong (Undergraduate, intern since 2021.1)
• Insuk Seo (Undergraduate, intern since 2021.2)
• Thanh Luong Doan Nguyen (Undergraduate, intern since 2021.2)

• (CSE551) Advanced Computer Security: Fall 2021
• (CSE467) Computer Security: Spring 2021, Spring 2022
• (CSE241) Object Oriented Programming: Fall 2020
• (UNI204) Software hacking and defense: Winter 2021

• USENIX Security Symposium (SEC) 2021, 2022
• European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2021, 2022
• International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2021
• ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) 2021, 2022
• Man-At-The-Middle Attacks Workshop (CheckMATE) Co-located with the ACM CCS, 2021

• Fine-grained analysis and prevention of invalid privilege transitions

  Junghwan Rhee, Yuseok Jeon, Zhichun Li, Kangkook Jee, Zhenyu Wu, Guofei Jiang

  Patent No : US10,402,564 (USA)

• Blackbox Program Privilege Flow Analysis with Inferred Program Behavior Context

  Junghwan Rhee, Yuseok Jeon, Zhichun Li, Kangkook Jee, Zhenyu Wu, Guofei Jiang

  Patent No : US10,505,962 (USA)

• Automated Blackbox Inference of External Origin User Behavior

  Zhenyu Wu, Jungwhan Rhee, Yuseok Jeon, Zhichun Li, Kangkook Jee, Guofei Jiang

  Patent No : US10,572,661 (USA)

• Apparatus and method for analyzing vulnerability of ZigBee Network

  Yuseok Jeon, Incheol Shin, Jaeduck Choi, Gunhee Lee, Sinkyu Kim, Jungtaek Seo

  Patent No : 1014141760000 (South Korea) / US9294496 B2 (USA)

• Fine-grained analysis and prevention of invalid privilege transitions

  Incheol Shin, Yuseok Jeon, Sinkyu Kim, Jungtaek Seo

  Patent No : 1013693830000 (South Korea) / US20150128271 A1 (USA)

• CERIAS Diamond Award, 2020
• Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, 2020
• ACM CCS 2016 Student Travel Grant, 2016
• Expert level (top grade), Samsung S/W Certificate, 2015
• 19th place, Samsung S/W Programming Contest Finals, 2014
• Top prize, National Computer Competition hosted by Kyung-Hee University, 2001
• Bronze prize, Information Technology Competition hosted by Hanyang University, 2001
• Bronze prize, Korea Computer Competition hosted by Soongsil University, 2001