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.

• Dec, 2020: was invited to serve on the PC of ESORICS'21
• Nov, 2020: was invited to serve on the PC of USENIX Security'21 and ACM CODASPY'21
• Sep, 2020: won the CERIAS Diamond Award
• Aug, 2020: joined the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at UNIST (official start will be Jan, 2021)

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

• 2015.08 - 2020.08 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

• 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

• 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

• Spring 2021: Computer Security (CSE467)
• Fall 2020: Object Oriented Programming (CSE241)

• 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
• ACM CCS 2016 Student Travel Grant, 2016
• Bronze prize, Information Technology Competition hosted by Hanyang University, 2001
• Bronze prize, Korea Computer Competition hosted by Soongsil University, 2001

• Program Committee: USENIX Security'21, ESORICS'21, ACM CODASPY'21
• Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Dependable and Secure Computing
• Trainer at the Samsung ITP “Profiling with Dynamic Instrumentation Tools” course, 2014
• Algorithm Trainer at the Information Olympiad training camp, 2004
• Algorithm Trainer at the IM4U (InforMatics for You), 2003.03 - 2007.02