Dr. Yeongjin Jang is an assistant professor of Computer Science and studies Cybersecurity. He hacks CPU, OS, iPhone, IoT devices, and anything that is operated by computers. He is interested in trustworthy computing, vulnerability discovery and analysis, side-channel attack and defense, developing new exploit primitives, mobile security, practical applied cryptography, jailbreaking, and ‘buidl’ing defense mechanisms.
You can read more about his ‘hacking’ story at here.
His prior research projects covered in popular media including: MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Reuters, CNN, CBS News, Wired, Telegraph, and many more.
In addition to the academic works, he has been enjoying playing capture-the-flag (CTF) contests. He is fortunate to be an advisor of OSUSEC, the team advanced to the DEF CON 30 CTF Final in 2022, and he received the Black Badge(s) from DEF CON, as the winner (team DEFKOR) of DEF CON 23 CTF (2015) and the winner (team DEFKOR00t) of DEF CON 26 CTF (2018).
You can watch demo videos of my hacks from below:
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2017
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. in Computer Science, 2016
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. in Computer Science, 2010
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
I have been teaching the following courses at Oregon State University (median course evaluation score attached, max 6.0):
To review how I teach at OSU, you can visit my Ratemyprofessor Profile.
I am fortunate to advise the following great researchers and students at Oregon State University:
Alumni of my research group are: