About Me
I am a PhD candidate at KAIST NSS Lab, advised by Professor Seungwon Shin. I received my master's and bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from KAIST. My research interests lie in the application of machine learning in cybersafety and scrutinizing its effects on cybersecurity. Privacy of individual clients in AI has been one of my focuses in research, and I am expanding my reach to understand the more imminent threats on the individual posed by the Web (e.g., malicious bots).
Having grown up in both South Korea and the US, I had the opportunity to experience both cultures as a student, resulting in bilingual proficiency and a playlist curation that ranges from Bruno Mars to BTS. In terms of programming languages I'm more versatile; my main programming languages (used in research) are Python, C, and Matlab and have adequate experience (e.g., projects, coursework) with Java, Scala, SQL, and Javascript.
If you are interested in working together, feel free to drop an email at any time!
Research
Access 2024
IEEE Access
IMC 2023
ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Evolving Bots: The New Generation of Comment Bots and their Underlying Scam Campaigns in YouTube
Seung Ho Na , Sumin Cho, Seungwon Shin
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Bib
@inproceedings{na2023evolving,
title={Evolving Bots: The New Generation of Comment Bots and their Underlying Scam Campaigns in YouTube},
author={Na, Seung Ho and Cho, Sumin and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference},
pages={297–312},
year={2023}
}
RAID 2023
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
Witnessing Erosion of Membership Inference Defenses: Understanding Effects of Data Drift in Membership Privacy
Seung Ho Na , Kwanwoo Kim, Seungwon Shin
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Bib
@inproceedings{na2023witnessing,
title={Witnessing Erosion of Membership Inference Defenses: Understanding Effects of Data Drift in Membership Privacy},
author={Na, Seung Ho and Kim, Kwanwoo and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses},
pages={250–263},
year={2023}
}
ACSAC 2022
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Closing the Loophole: Rethinking Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning from a Privacy Standpoint
Seung Ho Na , Hyeong Gwon Hong, Junmo Kim, Seungwon Shin
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Bib
@inproceedings{na2022closing,
title={Closing the Loophole: Rethinking Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning from a Privacy Standpoint},
author={Na, Seung Ho and Hong, Hyeong Gwon and Kim, Junmo and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Annual Computer Security Applications Conference},
pages={332–345},
year={2022}
}
JNCA 2022
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
Reconfigurable Regular Expression Matching Architecture for Real-time Pattern Update and Payload Inspection
Jaehyun Nam, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin, Taejune Park
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Bib
@article{nam2022reconfigurable,
title={Reconfigurable regular expression matching architecture for real-time pattern update and payload inspection},
author={Nam, Jaehyun and Na, Seung Ho and Shin, Seungwon and Park, Taejune},
journal={Journal of Network and Computer Applications},
volume={208},
pages={103507},
year={2022},
publisher={Elsevier}
}
CIKM 2022
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Meta-Path-based Fake News Detection Leveraging Multi-level Social Context Information
Jian Cui, Kwanwoo Kim, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin
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Bib
@inproceedings{cui2022meta,
title={Meta-Path-based Fake News Detection Leveraging Multi-level Social Context Information},
author={Cui, Jian and Kim, Kwanwoo and Na, Seung Ho and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management},
pages={325–334},
year={2022}
}
ACSAC 2021
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Reinhardt: Real-time Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for Regular Expression Matching in DPI
Taejune park, Jaehyun Nam, Seung Ho Na, Jaewoong Chung, Seungwon Shin
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Bib
@inproceedings{park2021reinhardt,
title={Reinhardt: Real-time Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for Regular Expression Matching in DPI},
author={Park, Taejune and Nam, Jaehyun and Na, Seung Ho and Chung, Jaewoong and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Annual Computer Security Applications Conference},
pages={620–633},
year={2021}
}
CCS 2018
ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference
[Poster] Knowledge Seeking on The Shadow Brokers
Seung Ho Na*, Kwanwoo Kim*, Seungwon Shin
*:Equally Contributed
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Bib
@inproceedings{na2018knowledge,
title={Knowledge Seeking on The Shadow Brokers},
author={Na, Seung Ho and Kim, Kwanwoo and Shin, Seungwon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
pages={2249–2251},
year={2018}
}
Experience
Worked as an intern in the research team. Was assigned a project on using deep learning for anomaly detection of faulty factory components, where I developed a hierarchical classification system that helped decrease false negative samples.
As an engineering student intern at a venture capital company, I had more familiarity in technology industries and conducted market research on IoT and renewable energy.
Education
KAIST
M.E. in Electrical Engineering
2018 - 2019
Under Professor Seungwon Shin, I was able to utilize my AI knowledge and apply it to CTI (cyber threat information) research. My Master’s thesis is research on a knowledge-powered cross-domain investigation of cyber-extortion operators. This work presents an analysis of Clop, a ransomware campaign, using a devised investigation framework that utilizes information from multiple domains.
KAIST
B.E. in Electrical Engineering
2014 - 2017
During my time at KAIST I dedicated much of my time in exploring what I wanted to do in life. After a broad selection of courses from various fields, several undergraduate research programs, and extracurricular activities, I found that learning and discovering new knowledge was what I enjoyed and decided to continue this in graduate school.
Awards
5th Financial Security Institute Paper Competition, Second Prize
제 5회 금융보안원 논문 공모전 최우수상
4th Financial Security Institute Paper Competition, First Prize
제 4회 금융보안원 논문 공모전 대상
A Little More About Me
Alongside my interests in AI and cybersafety, some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Watching and playing football; fan of Manchester City F.C.
- Occasional gaming (TFT, FIFA, and Pokemon Go)
- Exercising