Jeonghwan Kang

Jeonghwan Kang

PhD Candidate @ CSLab

Jeonghwan Kang


PhD Candidate @ CSLab
Email: jeonghwan[at]pusan[dot]ac[dot]kr

🔍 Open to 2027 postdoctoral opportunities.
I expect to complete my Ph.D. in February 2027 and am seeking postdoctoral researcher positions in systems security starting in early 2027.

Education

  • PhD Program in Computer Engineering (ABD), Pusan National University
  • BS in Electronics and Information Engineering, Korea Aerospace University

Experience

  • (2021-2027) Graduate Student @ CSLab
  • (2019-2021) Undergraduate Researcher @ DSLab

Research Interests

  • System & Software Security: Spatial and temporal memory safety, hardware-assisted security mechanisms, and low-overhead protection for resource-constrained environments.
  • Robotics & CPS Security: Secure middleware frameworks, anomaly detection, and remote attestation for distributed robotic platforms (ROS 2 and micro-ROS).
  • Compiler Instrumentation: Automated security enforcement techniques using LLVM compiler instrumentation and optimization to balance security and performance.

Skills

  • Programming  C, C++, Python, Arm Assembly
  • Systems & Toolchains  Clang/LLVM, Linux, Arm Cortex-M, RTOSes
  • Robotics  ROS 2, micro-ROS, DDS and Micro XRCE-DDS
  • Security  Memory Safety and Sanitizers, Fuzzing, Remote Attestation, Anomaly Detection

Conferences

[TOP-TIER] tag is used to mark the paper that appears in one of the top CS conferences selected by csrankings.org

  1. SubSan: Efficient Memory Error Detection via Subtraction Checks (to appear)
    Jeonghwan Kang, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon,
    [TOP-TIER] ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Nov. 2026.

  2. ELK: Effective Lock-and-Key Technique for Temporal Memory Safety on Embedded Devices in ARMv8-M
    Jeonghwan Kang, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon,
    IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2025.

  3. Look Before You Access: Efficient Heap Memory Safety for Embedded Systems on ARMv8-M
    Jeonghwan Kang, Jaeyeol Park, Jiwon Seo, and Donghyun Kwon,
    [TOP-TIER] ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun. 2024.

Journals

  1. SERA: Secure Micro XRCE-DDS Establishment with Remote Attestation for micro-ROS
    Jeonghwan Kang, Seungmin Kang, Euijun Kim, Jaeseon Park, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon,
    IEEE Access, Jan. 2026.

  2. Watch Your Callback: Offline Anomaly Detection using Machine Learning in ROS 2
    Jeonghwan Kang, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon,
    IEEE Access, Apr. 2025.

  3. ROSec: Intra-Process Isolation for ROS Composition with Memory Protection Keys
    Jiwon Seo, Martin Kayondo, Jeonghwan Kang, Kyeongryong Lee, Donghyun Kwon, and Yunheung Paek,
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Jan. 2025.

  4. Real-Time Attack Detection System Using Event-Based Runtime Monitoring in ROS 2
    Jeonghwan Kang, Minseong Seo, Jae Yeol Park, and Donghyun Kwon,
    Journal of The Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology, Dec. 2022.

  5. Bratter: An Instruction Set Extension for Forward Control-Flow Integrity in RISC-V
    Seonghwan Park, Dongwook Kang, Jeonghwan Kang, and Donghyun Kwon,
    MDPI Sensors, Feb. 2022.