I am an Associate Professor of School of Computing at KAIST since August 2023. Before I joined KAIST in 2020, I had been an assistant professor of School of Computing at National University of Singapore since August 2016. My research interests lie broadly in the field of network and distributed systems security, blockchain security, cellular network security, and IoT system security.
I obtained my PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. I received BS and MS degrees in EECS at KAIST in 2006 and 2008, respectively.
Selected Publications:
"On Frontrunning Risks in Batch-Order Fair Systems for Blockchains"
Eunchan Park*, Tae Ung Yoon*, Hocheol Nam, Deepak Maram, Min Suk Kang
(*co-first authors)
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct 2025.
"Onions Got Puzzled: On the Challenges of Mitigating Denial-of-Service Problems in Tor Onion Services"
Jinseo Lee, Hobin Kim, Min Suk Kang
In Proceedings of USENIX Security (USENIX Security), Aug 2025.
"Understanding User Privacy Perceptions in Video Conferencing: Insights from a Feature-Specific User Study"
Hobin Kim, Wonho Song, Joseph Seering, and Min Suk Kang
In Proceedings of Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), July 2025.
"Fork State-Aware Differential Fuzzing for Blockchain Consensus Implementations"
Wonhoi Kim*, Hocheol Nam*, Muoi Tran, Amin Jalilov, Zhenkai Liang, Sang Kil Cha, and Min Suk Kang
(*co-first authors)
In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (IEEE/ACM ICSE), Apr 2025.
“A Stealthy Location Identification Attack Exploiting Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks.”
Nitya Lakshmanan, Nishant Budhdev, Min Suk Kang, Mun Choon Chan, and Jun Han.
In Proceedings of USENIX Security (USENIX Security), Aug 2021
[paper]
“A Stealthier Partitioning Attack against Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network.”
“Tuple Space Explosion: A Denial-of-Service Attack against a Software Packet Classifier”
Levente Csikor, Dinil Mon Divakaran, Min Suk Kang, Attila Korosi, Balazs Sonkoly, David Haja, Dimitrios Pezaros, Stefan Schmid, Gabor Retvari
In Proceedings of ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), December 2019. Acceptance rate: 16.8% (32 of 190)
[paper]
“On the Feasibility of Rerouting-based DDoS Defenses.”
“SPIFFY: Inducing Cost-Detectability Tradeoffs for Persistent Link-Flooding Attacks.”
Min Suk Kang, Virgil D. Gligor, and Vyas Sekar.
In Proceedings of Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2016. Acceptance rate: 15.4% (60 of 389)
Finalist for CSAW’16 Applied Research Competition.
“Routing Bottlenecks in the Internet: Causes, Exploits, and Countermeasures.”
“The Crossfire Attack.”
Services:
Program Committee for NDSS 2026
Program Committee for WiSec 2025
Program Committee for ACM CCS 2025
Program Committee for NDSS 2025
Program Committee for ACM CCS 2024
Program Committee for WiSec 2024
Program Committee for NDSS 2024
Program Committee for ACM CCS 2023
Program Committee for ACM CCS 2022
Program Committee for ACM WiSec 2022
Program Committee for WISA 2021
Program Committee for ACM CCS 2020
Program Committee for IEEE ICDCS 2020
Program Committee for ACM AsiaCCS 2020
Program Chair for ACM CoNEXT 2020 Poster Program
Committee for ACM AsiaCCS 2019
Program Committee for WISA 2018
Program Committee for WISA 2017
Reviewer of Major Journals (e.g., Transactions on Networking, Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Transactions on Mobile Computing, Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing)
People:
I'm extremely fortunate to work with many motivated and talented graduate students, research fellows, visitors, and internship students. Here is the list of their names and their current institutions (please email me if they are outdated):
(List below is easily outdated; please refer to the People tab)
PhD Students
Nitya Lakshmanan
Master Students
Akshaye Shenoi
Undergrad Interns
Michael Hu (at National University of Sinagpore)
Yong Woo Oh (at Sungkyunkwan University)
Byoungjoon Choi (at Joongang University)
JunSeoung Choi (at KAIST)
Wonhoi Kim (at KAIST)
Yonatan Gizachew (at KAIST)
PostDoc Researchers
Dr. Jehyun Lee (TrustWave)
Dr. Levente Csikor (Singtel Corp Lab)
Former members
Andre Pousinho
Xin Zhe Khooi (Singtel Corp Lab)
Anh V. Vu (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Gunwoo Kim (Postech)
Videet Singhai (Carnegie Mellon University)
Deli Gong (Zilliqa)
Waqar Ahmad (PhD student at Tsinghua University)
Inkyu Bang (Agency for Defense Development, South Korea)
Gi Jun Moon (Korea University)
Inho Choi (Yonsei University)
Jun Seung Lee (Seoul National University)
Junhee Lee (Sejong University)
Hyowan Park (Sejong University)
Seunghun Kim (Sejong University)
Soyeon Park (currently PhD at Georgia Tech)
Seunghoon Woo (currently PhD at Korea Univ)
Weichuan Tan (Master at NUS)
Victor Nguyen (Master at NUS)
Jungki Min (from Korea Univ)
Dong Sung Kim (from Korea Univ)