Chung Hwan Kim (김충환)

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road, MS EC31, Richardson, TX 75080–3021

email / ECSS 3.201

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Software & Systems Security Laboratory (S3 Lab)

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Dallas, where I lead the S3 Lab. I have been honored with an NSF CAREER Award, a UT Dallas New Faculty Research Symposium Grant award, and recognition as a top 10 finalist for the CSAW Best Applied Research Paper Award.

I am actively seeking motivated students to join my research. If you are interested, please visit this page for more information.

Research Interests

Computer Systems Security, Cyber-Physical Security, Software Security and Reliability

Teaching [ recent / all ]

Operating Systems Concepts (CS/SE 4348): Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022

Software & Systems Security Seminar: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Spring 2021

Information Security (CS 6324): Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021

Special Topics in Computer Science - Security of CPS & IoT Systems (CS 6301): Fall 2021, Fall 2020

Publications [ recent / all ]

2025

TZ-DATASHIELD: Automated Data Protection for Embedded Systems via Data-Flow-Based Compartmentalization paper slides code bibtex
Zelun Kong, Minkyung Park, Le Guan, Ning Zhang, Chung Hwan Kim
In Proceedings of the 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2025)

2024

FreePart: Hardening Data Processing Software via Framework-based Partitioning and Isolation paper bibtex
Ali Ahad, Gang Wang, Chung Hwan Kim, Suman Jana, Zhiqiang Lin, Yonghwi Kwon
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2024)

2023

Building GPU TEEs using CPU Secure Enclaves with GEVisor paper slides code bibtex
Xiaolong Wu, Dave (Jing) Tian, Chung Hwan Kim
In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2023)

Confidential Execution of Deep Learning Inference at the Untrusted Edge with ARM TrustZone paper slides code bibtex
Md Shihabul Islam, Mahmoud Zamani, Chung Hwan Kim, Latifur Khan, Kevin Hamlen
In Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2023)

2022

DriveFuzz: Discovering Autonomous Driving Bugs through Driving Quality-Guided Fuzzing paper extended paper slides website code bibtex
Seulbae Kim, Major Liu, Junghwan "John" Rhee, Yuseok Jeon, Yonghwi Kwon, Chung Hwan Kim
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022)

Poster: Automated Discovery of Sensor Spoofing Attacks on Robotic Vehicles paper bibtex
Kyeongseok Yang*, Sudharssan Mohan*, Yonghwi Kwon, Heejo Lee, Chung Hwan Kim
In Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2022)
*Equal contribution

2021

PASAN: Detecting Peripheral Access Concurrency Bugs within Bare-metal Embedded Applications paper slides bibtex
Taegyu Kim, Vireshwar Kumar, Junghwan "John" Rhee, Jizhou Chen, Kyungtae Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Dongyan Xu, Dave (Jing) Tian
In Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2021)

Find My Sloths: Automated Comparative Analysis of How Real Enterprise Computers Keep Up with the Software Update Races paper slides bibtex
Omid Setayeshfar, Junghwan "John" Rhee, Chung Hwan Kim, Kyu Hyung Lee
In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA 2021)

2020

Vessels: Efficient and Scalable Deep Learning Prediction on Trusted Processors paper slides video bibtex
Kyungtae Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan "John" Rhee, Xiao Yu, Haifeng Chen, Dave (Jing) Tian, Byoungyoung Lee
In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC 2020)

Detecting Malware Injection with Program-DNS Behavior paper bibtex
Yixin Sun, Kangkook Jee, Suphannee Sivakorn, Zhichun Li, Cristian Lumezanu, Lauri Korts-Pärn, Zhenyu Wu, Junghwan Rhee, Chung Hwan Kim, Mung Chiang, Prateek Mittal
In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2020)

From Control Model to Program: Investigating Robotic Aerial Vehicle Accidents with MAYDAY paper slides bibtex
Taegyu Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Altay Ozen, Fan Fei, Zhan Tu, Xiangyu Zhang, Xinyan Deng, Dave (Jing) Tian, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2020)

CAFE: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Protecting Sensitive Cloud Application Logic Confidentiality bibtex
Sungjin Park, Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan Rhee, Jongjin Won, Taisook Han, Dongyan Xu
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 17(4), 2020

HFL: Hybrid Fuzzing on the Linux Kernel paper slides bibtex
Kyungtae Kim, Dae R. Jeong, Chung Hwan Kim, Yeongjin Jang, Insik Shin, Byoungyoung Lee
In Proceedings of the 27th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2020)

2019

Progressive Processing of System Behavioral Query paper slides bibtex
Jiaping Gui, Xusheng Xiao, Ding Li, Chung Hwan Kim, Haifeng Chen
In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2019)

RVFuzzer: Finding Input Validation Bugs in Robotic Vehicles through Control-Guided Testing paper slides bibtex
Taegyu Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan Rhee, Fan Fei, Zhan Tu, Gregory Walkup, Xiangyu Zhang, Xinyan Deng, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2019)

PoLPer: Process-Aware Restriction of Over-Privileged Setuid Calls in Legacy Applications paper slides bibtex
Yuseok Jeon, Junghwan Rhee, Chung Hwan Kim, Zhichun Li, Mathias Payer, Byungyoung Lee, Zhenyu Wu
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2019)

2018

SAQL: A Stream-based Query System for Real-Time Abnormal System Behavior Detection paper slides bibtex
Peng Gao, Xusheng Xiao, Ding Li, Zhichun Li, Kangkook Jee, Zhenyu Wu, Chung Hwan Kim, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni, Prateek Mittal
In Proceedings of the 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2018)
Top 10 Finalist for CSAW Best Applied Research Paper Award

Securing Real-Time Microcontroller Systems through Customized Memory View Switching paper slides video bibtex
Chung Hwan Kim, Taegyu Kim, Hongjun Choi, Zhongshu Gu, Byoungyoung Lee, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2018)

2017

RevARM: A Platform-Agnostic ARM Binary Rewriter for Security Applications paper slides bibtex
Taegyu Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Hongjun Choi, Yonghwi Kwon, Brendan Saltaformaggio, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2017)

J-Force: Forced Execution on JavaScript paper slides bibtex
Kyungtae Kim, I Luk Kim, Chung Hwan Kim, Yonghwi Kwon, Yunhui Zheng, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017)

2016

PerfGuard: Binary-Centric Application Performance Monitoring in Production Environments paper slides bibtex
Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan Rhee, Kyu Hyung Lee, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2016)

2015

Accurate, Low Cost and Instrumentation-Free Security Audit Logging for Windows paper slides bibtex
Shiqing Ma, Kyu Hyung Lee, Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan Rhee, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2015)

CAFE: A Virtualization-Based Approach to Protecting Sensitive Cloud Application Logic Confidentiality paper slides bibtex
Chung Hwan Kim, Sungjin Park, Junghwan Rhee, Jongjin Won, Taisook Han, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2015)

2014

IntroPerf: Transparent Context-Sensitive Multi-Layer Performance Inference using System Stack Traces paper slides poster bibtex
Chung Hwan Kim, Junghwan Rhee, Hui Zhang, Nipun Arora, Guofei Jiang, Xiangyu Zhang, Dongyan Xu
In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2014)