Seong-Joong Kim

Seong-Joong Kim

Senior Researcher

I am currently a Senior Researcher at the Attached Institute of ETRI, where I focus on trustworthy cloud systems, including confidential computing. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST under the supervision of Prof. Seungwon Shin. Previously, I interned at Samsung Electronics as a Software Engineer. I was also a recipient of the Samsung Electronics Semiconductor Scholarship.

Research Interests

Computer systems, cloud computing, and computer security, with a focus on trustworthy and confidential cloud infrastructure

Publications

  • TDSnap: Enabling Secure Function-as-a-Service with Trusted Domain Snapshots
    Seong-Joong Kim, Seungwon Shin, and Myoungsung You
    ACM/IEEE DAC 2026 (accepted) (BK21+ Top conference)

  • AccelFaaS: Accelerating FaaS via Prewarmed Memory and Control Channel Offloading
    Seong-Joong Kim, Seungwon Shin, and Myoungsung You
    IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
    paper

  • CR-ATTACKER: Exploiting Crash-reporting Systems using Timing Gap and Unrestricted File-based Workflow
    Seong-Joong Kim, Myoungsung You, and Seungwon Shin
    IEEE Access, March 2025
    paper

  • Page-Oriented Programming: Subverting Control-Flow Integrity of Commodity Operating System Kernels with Non-Writable Code Pages
    Seunghun Han, Seong-Joong Kim, Wook Shin, Byung Joon Kim, and Jae-Cheol Ryou
    USENIX Security 2024, August 2024 (BK21+ Top conference)
    paper

  • Cryonics: Trustworthy Function-as-a-Service using Snapshot-based Enclaves
    Seong-Joong Kim, Myoungsung You, Byung Joon Kim, and Seungwon Shin
    ACM SoCC, October 2023 (BK21+ Top conference)
    paper

  • Appliance Recognition Unit for Home Energy Management System With UPnP Network
    Seong-Joong Kim
    IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 2794 - 2803, Dec. 2017
    paper

  • New virtualised AP for independent wireless network composition
    Seong-Joong Kim
    IET Electronics Letters, vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 562-564, Mar. 2016
    paper

Patents

  • Method and apparatus for handling network I/O device virtualization
    US patent: US10754679B2, KR patent: 1017167150000
    patent

  • Apparatus and method for collecting audit trail in virtual machine boot process
    US patent: US10776491B2, KR patent: 1020089520000
    patent

  • Apparatus for monitoring file access in virtual machine and method for the same
    US patent: US20190044946A1, KR patent: 1019317790000
    patent

  • Apparatus and method for storing audit trail in response to virtual-machine process execution
    US patent: US10802863B2, KR patent: 1019379350000
    patent

  • Apparatus and method for preventing security threat to virtual machine
    US patent: US20230016571A1
    patent

Talks

  • Lost Control: Breaking Hardware-Assisted Kernel Control-Flow Integrity with Page-Oriented Programming
    Seunghun Han, Seong-Joong Kim, and Wook Shin
    BlackHat USA 2023
    slides

  • Alcatraz : A Practical Hypervisor Sandbox to Prevent Escapes from the KVM/QEMU and KVM-Based MicroVMs
    Seunghun Han, Seong-Joong Kim, Gaksoo Lim and Byungjoon Kim
    BlackHat USA 2021
    slides

  • Demystifying Open Source Crash Reporter: An In-depth Security Analysis
    Seong-Joong Kim
    Open Source Summit Europe 2020, Linux Foundation, Virtual, Oct. 2020
    slides

  • Broken Fingers: A Deep Dive Into Open Source Fingerprint Authentication and its Security Issues
    Seong-Joong Kim
    Open Source Summit North America 2019, Linux Foundation, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2019
    slides