News

Updates on research, entrepreneurship, and awards.

2026

KAIST entrepreneurship and cybersecurity recognition

Received the grand prize at the GRAVITY Startup Competition, won the KAIST-POSTECH Science War Cyber Security Competition, and received an award at the E5 KAIST Startup Competition.

June 27, 2026

AgentCardLeak presented at ICCCI 2026

Delivered an oral presentation on user-intent leakage through AI-agent discovery metadata at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and the Internet.

May 2026

R&D and AI policy research at the Ministry of Science and ICT

Began policy research and advisory activities in R&D and artificial intelligence at the Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea.

February 2026

Founded PatchOne Industries Inc.

Established PatchOne Industries Inc. as founder and CEO, building on venture and product work begun in 2025. The company spans cybersecurity, global compliance automation, and advanced aerospace and defense R&D.

2026

Started KAIST and MITx DEDP studies

Entered KAIST's undergraduate Freshman Program and began the MITx MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy.

December 2025

Korea Talent Award and Gyeongbuk Student Award

Received the Korea Talent Award, a Minister of Education's Commendation, and the 5th Gyeongbuk Student Award, a Superintendent of Education's Commendation.

November 2025

Grand prize at Hyundai AutoEver White Hat Hacker Competition

Received the Minister of Education Award as grand prize winner in the Hyundai AutoEver White Hat Hacker Competition.

November 7, 2025

Side-channel research presented at ACK 2025

Presented a paper on side-channel scenarios and countermeasures for national information warfare at the Annual Conference of the Korea Information Processing Society.

July 11, 2025

Invited research talk at CODEGATE 2025

Delivered “Side-Channel Attacks: Utility and Versatile Applications” at the CODEGATE Global Security Conference.

June–July 2025

APIC-IST presentation and KSII Young Scientist Award

Presented portable-OS memory-forensics research at APIC-IST on June 22 and received the KSII Young Scientist Award in July.

March 2025

Completed the BoB 13th cohort

Completed the Security Product Development Track as project manager for post-quantum secure communications on an AVR 8-bit CubeSat platform with 8 KB SRAM.