Dr. Jiyeon Lee is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungpook National University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2021, where she focused on security defects and client-side countermeasures for emerging web technologies. Dr. Lee has extensive research experience in web security, software security, and side-channel attacks. She has held positions as a postdoctoral researcher at Soongsil University and as a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia. Her research has been widely published in high-impact journals and conferences, and she has contributed to significant advancements in the field of cyber security.
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Suitability for Researcher Awards: Jiyeon Lee
Summary of Suitability for the Award:
Jiyeon Lee’s track record of pioneering research in the field of cybersecurity, her leadership in academic collaborations, and the recognition of her work through awards and publications, make her an outstanding candidate for a Best Researcher Award. Her focus on emerging threats and innovative solutions in web and software security align well with the goals of prestigious research awards.
🎓Education:
Dr. Jiyeon Lee earned her Ph.D. in the School of Computing from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2021. Her doctoral research focused on identifying security defects and developing client-side countermeasures for emerging web technologies, under the supervision of Professor Insik Shin. Through this work, she addressed critical vulnerabilities in web-based systems, contributing valuable insights and solutions to enhance the security of modern web environments.
🏢Work Experience:
Dr. Jiyeon Lee is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Kyungpook National University, a position she has held since 2023. Prior to this, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MISYS Lab at Soongsil University, South Korea, from September 2021 to February 2023, where her research focused on dependable autonomous vehicles and WebVR side-channel attacks under the guidance of Professor Kilho Lee. In 2019, Dr. Lee completed a research internship at Microsoft Research Asia in China, where she worked on edge intelligence in the Intelligent Cloud and Edge Group, mentored by Yunxin Liu.
🏅Awards:
In recognition of her outstanding research, Dr. Jiyeon Lee received the Best Paper Runner-up Award at the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) held in Rome, Italy, in December 2014. This accolade highlights her significant contributions to the field of real-time systems, particularly for her work on fluid model-based mixed-criticality scheduling on multiprocessor platforms.
Publication Top Notes:
“Tracking WebVR User Activities through Hand Motions: An Attack Perspective”
“Data-similarity-based IoT node selection for UAV trajectory optimization”
“VRKeyLogger: Virtual keystroke inference attack via eavesdropping controller usage pattern in WebVR”
“Spy in Your Eye: Spycam Attack via Open-Sided Mobile VR Device”
“Exploiting Missing Value Patterns for a Backdoor Attack on Machine Learning Models of Electronic Health Records: Development and Validation Study”