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Hyun-chul Kim, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Software
Sangmyung University
31, Sangmyung University Road, Dong-nam-gu,
Cheonan, South Korea 31066
E-mail: hkim _at_ smu dot ac dot kr

Curriculum Vitae (as of Apr. 2026)

Publications

Received the ICML Gold Reviewer Award 2026 (top 25%), presented by the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) - a premier conference in machine learning and AI.
Our paper "'As Eastern Powers, I will veto.' : An Investigation of Nation-level Bias of Large Language Models in International Relations" has been accepted at AAAI 2026, Singapore, Jan. 2026. (Main Technical Track, acceptance rate 17.6%)
Received the IEEE INFOCOM Travel Grant Award by IEEE Communications Society, UK, May 2025.
Our paper "Exploring the Internet Routing Registries to Augment AS-level Topology" has been accepted at IEEE INFOCOM, London, UK, May 2025. (acceptance rate 18.6%)
Our paper "Optimal approximate computation of Euclidean distance in spiking neural P systems framework" has been accepted at Scientific Reports, vol. 15, May 2025.
Our paper "Low-resource noisy transliteration normalization using Large-scale Language Model" has been accepted at IEEE ACCESS, vol. 13, May 2025.
Our paper "Fraud Detection on Crowdfunding Platforms Using Multiple Feature Selection Methods" has been accepted at IEEE ACCESS, vol. 13, Mar. 2025.
Our paper "Channel Attention for Fire and Smoke Detection: Impact of Augmentation, Color Spaces, and Adversarial Attacks" has been accepted at Sensors, vol. 25, no. 4, Feb. 2025.
Our paper "Cyber5Gym: An Integrated Framework for 5G Cybersecurity Training" has been accepted at Electronics, vol. 13, no. 5, Feb. 2024.
Our paper "Backers beware: Characteristics and detection of fraudulent crowdfunding campaigns" has been accepted at Sensors, vol. 22, no. 19, Oct. 2022.
Our paper "A Systematic Review of Location Aware Schemes in the Internet of Things" has been accepted at Sensors, vol. 21, May 2021.
Our poster "Traffic Classification using Deep Learning: Being Highly Accurate is Not Enough" has been accepted at ACM SIGCOMM, New York City, Aug. 2020.
Our poster "AS Relationships Inference from the Internet Routing Registries" has been accepted at ACM SIGCOMM, New York City, Aug. 2020.
Prof. Hyun-chul Kim has been awarded an Overseas Research Professor Fellowship of the LG Yonam Cultural Foundation, Nov. 2019.
Our paper "Predicting content consumption from content-to-content relationships" has been accepted at Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol. 132, April 2019 (SCI, IF in 2018=5.173).
Our poster "Content-based Success Prediction of Crowdfunding Campaigns: A Deep Learning Approach" has been accepted at ACM CSCW, New York City's Hudson River (Jersey City), Nov. 2018.
Our paper "Privacy Leakage in Event-based Social Networks: A Meetup Case Study" has been accepted at ACM CSCW, New York City's Hudson River (Jersey City), Nov. 2018. (acceptance rate 25.5%)
Our poster "The Language of Deceivers: Linguistic Features of Crowdfunding Scams" has been accepted at WWW, Montreal, Canada, Apr. 2016.
Our paper "Measurement and Analysis of Online Gaming Services on Mobile WIMAX Networks" appears in Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCNC), vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1198-1211, May 2015 (SCI).
Our paper "Collecting, Organizing, and Sharing Pins in Pinterest: Interest-driven or Social-driven?" has been accepted at ACM SIGMETRICS, Austin, TX, Jun. 2014. (acceptance rate 16.8%)
Our paper "Strategic Bundling for Content Availability and Fast Distribution in BitTorrent" has been accepted at Computer Communications, vol. 43, pp. 64-73, May 2014 (SCI).
Our paper "AS-level Topology Collection through Looking Glass Servers" has been accepted at ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013. (acceptance rate 19.8%)
Our paper "A Comparative Study on IP Prefixes and their Origin ASes in BGP and the IRR" has been accepted at ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, vol. 43, no. 3, Jul. 2013.
Our paper "Internet Traffic Classification using Energy Time-Frequency Distributions" has been accepted at IEEE ICC, Budapest, Hungary, Jun. 2013.
Our paper "Bundling Practice in BitTorrent: What, How, and Why" has been accepted at ACM SIGMETRICS, London, UK, Jun. 2012. (acceptance rate 15.2%)
Our paper "Analysis of Context Dependence in Social Interaction Networks of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game" has been accepted at PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 4, Apr. 2012. (SCIE, IF = 4.411)
Our paper "Content Publishing and Downloading Practice in BitTorrent" has been accepted at IFIP Networking, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.

Datasets

Pinterest dataset, as in our paper "Collecting, Organizing, and Sharing Pins in Pinterest: Interest-driven or Social-driven?", ACM SIGMETRICS, Austin, TX, Jun. 2014.
Looking glass server list and AS link data sets, as in our paper "AS-level Topology Collection through Looking Glass Servers", ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 2013.
BitTorrent dataset, as in our paper "Bundling Practice in BitTorrent: What, How, and Why", ACM SIGMETRICS, London, UK, Jun. 2012.
Internet traffic data sets, as in our paper "Internet Traffic Classification Demystified: Myths, Caveats and the Best Practices", ACM CoNEXT, Madrid, Spain, Dec. 2008.

Projects and Grants

Explainability in Graph Neural Networks for Internet Traffic Classification, sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Ministry of Science and ICT, PI, 2023.06.~2025.02 (~$150K).
Virtualization-based 5G Mobile Network Interconnection and Cyber Threats Research, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2023.04.~2023.10 (~$50K).
Deep Learning based Internet Traffic Classification: Myths, Realities, and their Explainability, sponsored by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), Ministry of Science and ICT, PI, 2022.06~2023.02 (~$58K).
A Virtualization-based Cybersecurity Training Environment for 5G Mobile Communication Networks, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2022.04.~2022.10 (~$50K).
Automated Software Vulnerabiliry Detection using AI, an Industry-Academic Cooperation/Collaboration sub-project, National Program of Excellnence in Sotware, sponsored by Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea, PI, 2021.04-2020.11 (~$20K).
Profiling Cyber Security Experts (continued), sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2021.4~2021.10 (~$50K).
Profiling Cyber Security Experts, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2020.6~2020.11 (~$40K).
DeepScanning: AI-based Automated Software Scanning, an Industry-Academic Cooperation/Collaboration sub-project, National Program of Excellnence in Sotware, sponsored by Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea, PI, 2020.04-2020.12 (~$30K).
Multi-modal data-driven Explainable AI systems and the Future of Digital Finance, sponsored by the National Research Foundataion, Korea, PI, 2019.9~2022.2 (~260K/3 years).
Towards Explainable AI in Next-Generation Intrusion Detection systems, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2019.4~2019.10 (~$50K/7 months).
Statistics-based Network Behavior Modeling, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2018.5~2018.10 (~$40K/6 months).
Traffic Measurement in Anonymity Networks, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2017.4~2017.10 (~$35K/6 months).
Characterization and Automatic Labeling of Malicious Traffic in Control System Networks, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2017.4~2017.10 (~$30K/6 months).
Development of Side Awning Tents using Environmentally-aware and DTP (Digital Textile Printing) Technologies, sponsored by Small and Medium Business Adminstration, Korea, 2016.12-2017.11 (~$100K/year).
Towards social context aware, secure and safe Information-Centric Networking, Basic Science Research Program, through the NRF, by the MoE, Korea, PI, 2016.11~2019.10 (~$150K/3 years).
Network Traffic Classification for Intrusion Detection, sponsored by National Security Research Institute, Korea, PI, 2015.6~2015.12 (~$35K/6 months).
Towards social context aware Information-Centric Networking, Basic Science Research Program, through the NRF, by the MoE, Korea, PI, 2013.6~2016.5 (~$150K/3 years).

Professional Activities

Technical Program Committee member
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2026-2027, NeurIPS 2026, and ICML 2026 (Gold Reviewer Award)
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2025, 2026, 2027
- ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Social Networking and Media Analysis Track) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
- ACM SIGCOMM Workshop Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Data Communication Networks (Big-DAMA) 2017, 2018, 2019
- IFIP Networking 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
- ICNC 2014 - CQSM (International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications - Communication QoS and System Modeling Symposium), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- AINTEC (Asian Internet Engineering Conference) 2006, 2013, 2014
- IEEE ICC Workshop on TRICANS (Traffic Identification and Classification for Advanced Network Services and Scenarios) 2013, 2014
- IEEE MASCOTS 2013
- TMA (Traffic Measurement and Analysis) Workshop 2012, 2013
- APNOMS (Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium) 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017
- IEEE E2EMon 2007, 2008

Publicity Co-Chair, ACM CoNEXT 2018
Program Co-chair, ACM CoNEXT 2011 Student Workshop

Teaching

Best Teaching Award, 1st-3rd in College of Engineering, Sangmyung University, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012.
'The past 5 semesters (2.5 yrs) of mine @Sangmyung Univ.': visualized based on students' evaluation results on my lectures, collected from 2012 Spring to 2014 Spring (words containing year, semester info., course names, my name are all pre-excluded. available in korean only. :).

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Advisees

Sangmyung University Advisees (2012~current)
Seoul National University Advisees (Co-advised with Prof. T. Kwon, Y. Choi, and C. Kim at SNU CSE Dept., 2008~2012)

Prof. Akmal Khan (now at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur)
Prof. Jinyoung Han (at SKKU)
Mr. Seokshin Son (at NCSoft)
Prof. Seungbae Kim (at University of South Florida)
Prof. Suchul Lee (at Korea National University of Transportation)
Prof. Taejoong Chung (at Virginia Tech)
Prof. Xiaofei Wang (at Tianjin University)
Dr. Yeonsup Lim (at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

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Last Updated: 2026.07.29