Jeonghwan Kang

Jeonghwan Kang

PhD Candidate @ CSLab

Jeonghwan Kang


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

πŸ” Open to 2027 opportunities.
I expect to complete my Ph.D. in February 2027 and am looking for full-time positions in systems security starting in early 2027.

Military service (Korea) β€” I am currently serving as Technical Research Personnel (μ „λ¬Έμ—°κ΅¬μš”μ›). The two-year doctoral portion of my service is complete and one year remains. As an automatic-transfer (당연전직) candidate, joining a designated employer does not consume that employer's TRP allocation (TO).

Education

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

Experience

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

Research Interests

  • System Security, Software Security
  • Embedded Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems

Selected Papers

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

  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, January 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), December 2025

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

  4. 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 (T-ASE), January 2025

  5. 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), June 2024

Patents

  1. Method for Ensuring Heap Memory Spatial Safety of Embedded System and Embedded System for Using the Same
    GRANTED KR Patent No. 10-2902870, December 2025

  2. Method and Device for Detecting Fault in Robot Operating System 2 Environment Using Machine Learning
    PENDING KR Patent Application No. 10-2024-0139454, filed October 2024

Skills

  • Programming Β C, C++, Python, Arm Assembly
  • Systems & Toolchains Β Clang/LLVM, Linux, Arm Cortex-M, RTOSes
  • Robotics Β ROS 2, micro-ROS, DDS and Micro XRCE-DDS
  • Security Β Memory Safety and Sanitizers, Fuzzing, Remote Attestation, Anomaly Detection
  • Languages Β Korean (Native), English β€” OPIc Intermediate High (IH)