Hello there!

I am Youngil Kim, a forth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Irvine, who loves traveling, cooking, and reading. I am working in the security group SPROUT, under the supervision of Prof. Gene Tsudik.

I am currently looking for 2024 summer internship positions for Security/Software Research/Engineering.

Research Interests

My research interests involve resolving Security and privacy issues in computing systems. Currently, I am working on security and privacy concerns in Embedded systems and Cellular networks. Also, I am highly interested in Formal verification and Trusted execution environment(TEE).

Education

  • Ph.D. 2020.09 ~
    Computer Science, UC Irvine

  • M.S. 2013.03 ~ 2015.02
    Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University

  • B.S. 2006.03 ~ 2013.02
    Mathematics, Sungkyunkwan University

Work Experience

  • Research Engineer @ LG Electronics
    2014.12 - 2020.10 (5years 10months)
    Develop a firmware of Mobile SoC
    Research on Security of Automotive system

  • Intern - Research internship @ KAIST
    2022.06 - 2022.09 (3months)
    Research on Privacy-enhanced Cellular network