Yeongjin Jang

• Developing cyber safeguards for Gemini. • Evaluating model’s cyber capability • Conducting comprehensive cyber risk assessments to ensure safe advancement toward AGI. • Conducting threat Intelligence in AI surface.

At Samsung Research America, I focused on advancing autonomous software vulnerability discovery using Generative AI technologies. My work involved analyzing Java open-source projects to identify and patch vulnerabilities, significantly improving software security. I contributed to the recognition of our team as the DARPA/ARPA-H AIxCC winner ($4MM prize), underscoring our commitment to innovation in the field.

Advising the last batch of graduate students

During my tenure at Oregon State University, I focused on bridging the gap between academia and industry in secure system design. My research areas included automated vulnerability discovery and exploit mitigation, which aimed to enhance the security of systems in real-world applications. I also explored trusted execution environments and architectural side-channel attacks, contributing valuable insights to the field.

Submitted grant proposals to government funding agencies (NSF, etc.)

Finished Ph.D. under the guidance of awesome advisors, Prof. Wenke Lee and Prof. Taesoo Kim

Built an iOS app for enabling end-to-end secure file storage and an Android app for enabling end-to-end searchable-encrypted messaging (at UI Layer) that works universally on underlying applications (e.g., WhatsApp, Gmail, etc.)

Built a KVM-based storage sandboxing solution for defense-grade applications

Built a Xen-based storage sandboxing solution for defense-grade applications

$0 contract voluntary work, working concurrently while working as a Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology

Built a virtual-machine introspection (VMI on Xen) based secure systems for external I/O devices (e.g., DoD CAC card)

Graduate Research Assistant in the Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) under the supervision of Dr. Wenke Lee

Built a platform-based horizontal scrolling game with a physics-modeling game engine

Served the mandatory military service for South Korea as a Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army (KATUSA). Received the Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM) and was a PT Master (300+).

Built Korean-localized cryptographic module (SEED-128) for Playstation Portable at SCEK

Research area: secure system design, automated vulnerability discovery, exploit development, exploit mitigation, trusted execution environment, architectural side-channel attacks, UI security in system's aspect, crypto-system co-design

MSCS degree with a specialty in Computing Systems