Building Unexploitable Systems!
Dr. Yeongjin Jang is an elite cybersecurity researcher. He hacks CPU, OS, iPhone, IoT devices, and anything that is operated by computers. He is interested in trustworthy computing, vulnerability discovery and analysis, side-channel attack and defense, developing new exploit primitives, mobile security, practical applied cryptography, jailbreaking, and ‘buidl’ing defense mechanisms.
His prior research projects covered in popular media including: MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Reuters, CNN, CBS News, Wired, Telegraph, and many more.
In addition to the academic works, he has been enjoying playing capture-the-flag (CTF) contests. He is fortunate to be an advisor of OSUSEC, the team advanced to the DEF CON 30 CTF Final in 2022, and he received the Black Badge(s) from DEF CON, as the winner (team DEFKOR) of DEF CON 23 CTF (2015) and the winner (team DEFKOR00t) of DEF CON 26 CTF (2018).
You can watch demo videos of my hacks from below:
- Cybersecurity/Hacking
- Automated Vulnerability Discovery
- Operating Systems Security
- Software Security
- Applied Cryptography
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science, 2010
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
News
- [03/01/2024] We are hiring vulnerability researchers. Please drop me an email if you are interested in working with us at Samsung Research America.
- [02/28/2024] RSTI has been accepted to ASPLOS 24. The work can mitigate potential malicious behaviors in 3rd-party code (a.k.a. supply-chain attacks) without any annotation on the code!
- [07/16/2023] QSYM won the Frontiers of Science Award in Crytpography and Information Security area from the International Congress of Basic Science.
Recent Publications
Teaching
I have been teaching the following courses at Oregon State University (median course evaluation score attached, max 6.0):
- CS 499/579: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Winter 2023, 50 students, 6.0/6.0)
- CS 370: Introduction to Security (Fall 2022, 89 students, 5.9/6.0)
- CS 444/544: Operating Systems II (Fall 2022, 193 students, 5.8/6.0)
- CS 444/544: Operating Systems II (Fall 2021, 203 students, 5.9/6.0)
- CS 499/579: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Fall 2021, 26 students, 5.8/6.0)
- CS 499/579: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Spring 2021, 32 students, 5.9/6.0)
- CS 444/544: Operating Systems II (Fall 2020, 199 students, 5.3/6.0)
- CS 444/544: Operating Systems II (Spring 2020, 204 students)
- CS 505: Cyber Security Seminar (Winter 2020, 6 students, 6.0/6.0)
- CS 419/579: Systems Security (Fall 2019, 22 students, 6.0/6.0)
- CS 419/579: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Fall 2019, 40 students, 5.9/6.0)
- CS 444/544: Operating Systems II (Spring 2019, 136 students, 5.8/6.0)
- CS 519: Advanced Operating Systems (Winter 2019, 7 students, 5.8/6.0)
- CS 419/519: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Fall 2018, 25 students, 5.7/6.0)
- CS 419/519: Systems Security (Spring 2018, 18 students, 5.7/6.0)
- CS 419/519: Cyber Attacks and Defense (Winter 2018, 19 students, 6.0/6.0)
To review how I teach at OSU, you can visit my Ratemyprofessor Profile.
Advising
I am fortunate to advise the following great researchers and students at Oregon State University:
- Ping-Jui Liao (MS, Fall 2018 – present)
- Jonathan Keller (MS, Spring 2022 – present)
- Lucas Ball (BS, Winter 2022 – present)
Alumni of my research group are:
- Akshith Gunasekaran (PhD, co-advised with Dr. Rakesh Bobba, Spring 2018 – Spring 2023)
- Casey Colley (BS, Fall 2022 – Spring 2023)
- Rudy Peralta (BS, Spring 2022 – Fall 2022)
- Philiph Lee (MS, Winter 2021 – Fall 2022)
- Kihwan Kim (Ph.D. Student Intern from KAIST, Winter 2022 – Spring 2022)
- Changil Lim (Ph.D. Student Intern from KAIST, Winter 2022 – Spring 2022)
- Taehyun Kim (Ph.D. Student Intern from KAIST, Winter 2022 – Spring 2022)
- Ryan Kennedy (MS, Fall 2020 – Jun 2022)
- Lyell Read (BS, Honors College, Summer 2019 – Spring 2022)
- Andrew Quach (MS, Summer 2019 – Winter 2022)
- Cody Holliday (MS, Fall 2018 – Fall 2021)
- Hadi Rahal-Arabi (MS, Winter 2019 – Fall 2021)
- Phillip Mestas III (MS, Spring 2019 – Summer 2021)
- Zander Nead-Work (BS, RELU, Summer 2019 – Summer 2021)
- Khuong Luu (BS, Honors College, Spring 2019 – Fall 2020)
- Jangha Kim (Researcher at NSRI, Spring 2019 – Spring 2020)
- Sera Lee (Ph.D. Student Intern from KAIST, Winter 2019 – Summer 2019)
- Travis Whitehead (Faculty Research Assistant, Fall 2019 – Summer 2020)