Mingi Cho

Yonsei University NMH #110 • imgc@yonsei.ac.kr

Security Researcher

Education

Yonsei University

Ph.D., Information Security • March 2017 — August 2022

Pusan National University, Busan, Korea

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering • March 2012 — February 2017

Research Interests

  • Software security
  • System security
  • Program analysis
  • Vulnerability analysis

Publications

  1. Mingi Cho, Jaedong Jang, Yezee Seo, Seyeon Jeong, Soochang Chung, and Taekyoung Kwon, “Towards Bidirectional LUT-level Detection of Hardware Trojans,” Computers & Security, Elsevier, Vol.104, May. 2021.

  2. Mingi Cho, Seoyoung Kim, and Taekyoung Kwon, “Intriguer: Field-Level Constraint Solving for Hybrid Fuzzing,” In Proc. the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019), pp. 515-530, Nov. 2019.

  3. Seoyoung Kim, Seyeon Jeong, Mingi Cho, Soochang Chung, and Taekyoung Kwon, “POSTER: Evaluating Code Coverage for System Call Fuzzers,” In Proc. the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019), London, UK, Nov. 2019.

Talks

  1. Intriguer: Field-Level Constraint Solving for Hybrid Fuzzing. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), London, UK, November, 2019.

  2. Diving into OS Kernels to Trigger Deeper Bugs (poster), USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), Carlsbad, CA, USA, October, 2018.

Awards

K-Cyber Security Chanllenge

Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea • 2020

1st place (team 평범한 대학원생과 직장인)

Hacking Competition Experiences

  1. Finalist, DEF CON CTF 26, 2018.

  2. Finalist, DEF CON CTF 25, 2017.

  3. Finalist, Whitehat Hacking Contest, 2016.

Social Links

  • Github: https://github.com/mingi