Scholar
Seonghun Son
Google Scholar ID: R0J5dRUAAAAJ
Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
7
H-index
1
i10-index
0
Publications
6
Co-authors
6
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper “SMaCk: Efficient Instruction Cache Attacks via Self-Modifying Code Conflicts” accepted at ASPLOS '25; AMD acknowledged the attack with a security bulletin (AMD-SB-7024); received a Meta Bounty Award for reporting side-channel vulnerabilities; received a student travel grant from ASPLOS 25; poster “DefWeb: Defending User Privacy against Cache-based Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Intelligent Noise Injection” won the best poster award at Midwest Security Workshop 2024; paper “DefWeb: Defending User Privacy against Cache-based Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Intelligent Noise Injection” accepted at ACSAC 2023; poster on the security of Machine Learning models in collaboration with NSA accepted to the CAE symposium.
Research Experience
- Long-term research intern at Seagate Research Group’s Data Trust Team; collaborated with Purdue University on GPU-based side-channel attacks; research intern at PurSec Lab.
Education
- Ph.D. (ABD) in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, advised by Dr. Berk Gulmezoglu.
Background
- Research interests include hardware security, microarchitectural side channel attacks and AI-driven mitigations, cryptographic systems (including fully homomorphic encryption FHE), and machine learning security. Currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, and a long-term research intern at Seagate Research Group’s Data Trust Team.
Miscellany
- Quote: If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.
