Hokeun Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor at Arizona State University

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Research

Areas of Interest

  • Internet/network security
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Real-time embedded systems
  • Computer architecture
  • Modeling and simulation of cyber-physical systems

Short Bio

Hokeun Kim is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) at Arizona State University (ASU). Before joining ASU, he was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electronic Engineering at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, and an assistant researcher in the Dept. of EECS at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 2017 with a focus on IoT security. After graduating from Berkeley, he spent four years in industry in Silicon Valley and continued research on the Internet and cloud security at Google before returning to academia in 2021. His research interests include computer security, the IoT, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, and computer architecture. He received the ACM/IEEE Best Paper Award and IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention for his research contributions to IoT and computer architecture research.

Contact

  • E-mail: hokeun (at) asu.edu

Education

Experience

Teaching

Arizona State University

Hanyang University

University of California, Berkeley

Seoul National University

  • Spring 2011        Teaching Assistant, Digital Signal Processing

Software Projects

  • SST: Secure Swarm Toolkit [Github repository]

    • An open-source local authentication and authorization software, Auth, for the security of the IoT

  • Lingua Franca [Github repository]

    • A polyglot coordination language for concurrent and possibly time-sensitive applications ranging from low-level embedded code to distributed cloud and edge applications

  • Cape Code [Project page]

    • A graphical environment for developing swarmlets (IoT applications)

Awards

  • Best Paper Award, In the 27th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2024), Stockholm, Sweden, September 2024

  • Honorable Mention, In the IEEE Micro Top Picks from the 2016 Computer Architecture Conferences, June 2017

  • ACM/IEEE Best Paper Award, In the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2017, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2017

  • Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, The Graduate Division and The Graduate Council Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs, University of California, Berkeley, May 2014

  • Scholarship for Doctoral Study Abroad, The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, August 2011

  • Excellence Award in Hardware IP Design Sector, Proactive Camera Tracking System Using USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Node) with Zigbee Communication, The 6th SoC Design Contest, Seoul National University Center of SoC and KAIST IDEC, December 2010

  • Best Term Paper Award in Subject for Liberal Education Courses, Faculty of Liberal Education, Seoul National University, August 2009

  • Employee of the Month, ESTsoft Corp., October 2008

  • Scholarship for Superior Academic Performance, Seoul National University, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2010

  • 3rd Place in Programming Contest, ESCamp, Hosted by Seoul National University and Nexon Corp., August 2004

  • National Scholarship for Science and Engineering, Korea Student Aid Foundation, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2009

Publications

Theses

Journal Articles

  1. Wonseo Choi, Dongha Kim, Sangmo Sung, Dohyung Han, Haeun Jo, Dongwook Choi, Jae-Il Jung, and Hokeun Kim, "Enhanced Wi-Fi Access Point Positioning using Hexagonal CNN with Mobile Data and Urban Information", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume: 11, Issue: 20, pp. 33820-33832, October 2024.

  2. Christian Menard, Marten Lohstroh, Soroush Bateni, Matthew Chorlian, Arthur Deng, Peter Donovan, Clément Fournier, Shaokai Lin, Felix Suchert, Tassilo Tanneberger, Hokeun Kim, Jeronimo Castrillon, Edward A. Lee, "High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca", ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Article 48, 29 pages, October 2023.

  3. Kibeom Park, Sangmo Sung, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, "Technology trends and challenges in SDN and service assurance for end-to-end network slicing", Computer Networks, vol. 234, p. 109908, October 2023.

  4. Sangmo Sung, Wonseo Choi, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, "Deep Learning-Based Path Loss Prediction for Fifth-Generation New Radio Vehicle Communications", IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 75295-75310, July 2023.

  5. Dongha Kim, Yeongbin Jo, Taekyung Kim, and Hokeun Kim, "SST v1.0.0 with C API: Pluggable security solution for the Internet of Things", SoftwareX, vol. 22, p. 101390, May 2023.

  6. Sangmo Sung, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, "Accurate Indoor Positioning for UWB-based Personal Devices using Deep Learning", IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 20095-20113, Feburary 2023.

  7. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee, "Resilient Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things (IoT) Using Edge Computing", ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, March 2020.

  8. Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, and Schahram Dustdar, "Creating a Resilient IoT With Edge Computing", IEEE Computer, Volume: 52, Issue: 8, August 2019.

  9. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, and Edward A. Lee, "An Integrated Simulation Tool for Computer Architecture and Cyber-Physical Systems", Cyber Physical Systems. Design, Modeling, and Evaluation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, April 2019. (Note: Published as a journal version of CyPhy 2017 proceedings.)

  10. Marten Lohstroh, Hokeun Kim, John C Eidson, Chadlia Jerad, Beth Osyk, and Edward A. Lee, "On Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Important Things", IEEE Access, Volume: 7, February 2019.

  11. Christopher Brooks, Chadlia Jerad, Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Victor Nouvellet, Beth Osyk, and Matt Weber, "A Component Architecture for the Internet of Things", Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume: 106, Issue: 9, September 2018.

  12. Hokeun Kim and Edward A. Lee, "Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things", IEEE IT Professional, Volume: 9, Issue: 5, October 2017.

Refereed Conference Papers

  1. Dongha Kim, Chanhee Lee, and Hokeun Kim, "A Case Study of API Design for Interoperability and Security of the Internet of Things", (to appear) in Proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP). New Orleans, LA, November 7 - 8, 2024.

  2. Pawan Kumar and Hokeun Kim, "Cost-Effective Cyber-Physical System Prototype for Precision Agriculture with a Focus on Crop Growth", in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP). Raleigh, NC, October 3, 2024. [Talk Slides]

  3. Byeonggil Jun, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, "Efficient Coordination for Distributed Discrete-Event Systems", in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE'24). Raleigh, NC, October 3 - October 4, 2024. [Talk Slides]

  4. Chanhee Lee, Deeksha Prahlad, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, "Work-in-Progress: On-device Retrieval Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graphs for Personalized Large Language Models", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). Raleigh, NC, September 29 - October 4, 2024. [Talk Slides] [Poster]

  5. Hokeun Kim, Younghyun Kim, and Hoeseok Yang, "Platform Design for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning using Homomorphic Encryption", in Proceedings of the 27th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2024). Stockholm, Sweden, September 4-6, 2024. Best Paper Award [Talk Slides]

  6. Jonghyeon Nam, Jaeduk Han, and Hokeun Kim, "Low-Power Encoding for PAM-3 DRAM Bus", in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods, and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD). IEEE, Volos, Greece, July 2-5, 2024. [Talk Slides]

  7. Yeongbin Jo, Yunsang Cho, and Hokeun Kim, "Secure and Lightweight Access Control for Highly Decentralized and Distributed File Systems", in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Middleware for the Computing Continuum (Mid4CC '23). ACM, Bologna, Italy, December 11, 2023. [Talk Slides]

  8. Dongha Kim and Hokeun Kim, "Poster Abstract: Securing Edge-Based Real-Time IoT Systems", in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'23). Istanbul, Türkiye, November 15, 2023. [Poster]

  9. Soroush Bateni, Marten Lohstroh, Hou Seng Wong, Hokeun Kim, Shaokai Lin, Christian Menard, and Edward A. Lee, "Risk and Mitigation of Nondeterminism in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems", in Proceedings of the 21st ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE'23). Hamburg, Germany, September 21-22, 2023.

  10. Hokeun Kim, "Secure Programming Platform for Edge-Based IoT", in Proceedings of the 26th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2023). Turin, Italy, September 13-25, 2023. [Talk Slides]

  11. Byeong-Gil Jun, Dongha Kim, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, "Reliable Event Detection Using Time-Synchronized IoT Platforms", in Proceedings of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023 (CPS-IoT Week 2023), Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS). San Antonio, TX, May 9, 2023. [Talk Slides]

  12. Youri Su, Sanghun Lee, Eunji Song, Dongha Kim, Jaeduk Han, and Hokeun Kim, "Energy-Efficient Bus Encoding Techniques for Next-Generation PAM-4 DRAM Interfaces", in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2022). Lake Tahoe, CA, October 24-26, 2022. [Talk Slides]

  13. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee, "An Architectural Mechanism for Resilient IoT Services", in Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017). Delft, The Netherlands, November 5, 2017. [Talk Slides]

  14. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, and Edward A. Lee, "An Integrated Simulation Tool for Computer Architecture and Cyber-Physical Systems", in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyPhy'17). Seoul, Korea, October 19, 2017. [Talk Slides]

  15. Marten Lohstroh, Hokeun Kim, and Edward A. Lee, "Contextual callbacks for resource discovery and trust negotiation on the internet of things: work-in-progress", in Proceedings of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). Seoul, Korea, October 15–20, 2017.

  16. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, Edward A. Lee, and David Broman, "A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things", in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI). Pittsburgh, PA, April 18-21, 2017. ACM/IEEE Best Paper Award [Talk Slides]

  17. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, Benjamin Mehne, and Edward A. Lee, "A Secure Network Architecture for the Internet of Things Based on Local Authorization Entities", in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud). Vienna, Austria, August 22-24, 2016. [Talk Slides]

  18. Donggyu Kim, Adam Izraelevitz, Christopher Celio, Hokeun Kim, Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Jonathan Bachrach, and Krste Asanović, "Strober: Fast and Accurate Sample-Based Energy Simulation for Arbitrary RTL", in Proceedings of the 43rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Seoul, Korea, June 18-22, 2016. Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks '17 [Talk Slides]

  19. Hokeun Kim, Yan Zhao, and Lihua Zhao, "Process-Level Modeling and Simulation for HP's Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing Technology", in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). Vienna, Austria, April 12, 2016. [Talk Slides]

  20. Armin Wasicek, Edward A. Lee, Hokeun Kim, Lev Greenberg, Akihito Iwai, and Ilge Akkaya, "System simulation from operational data", in Proceedings of the 52nd Design Automation Conference (DAC). San Francisco, CA, June 2015.

  21. Hokeun Kim, David Broman, Edward A. Lee, Michael Zimmer, Aviral Shrivastava, and Junkwang Oh, "A Predictable and Command-Level Priority-Based DRAM Controller for Mixed-Criticality Systems", in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS). Seattle, WA, April 13-16, 2015. [Talk Slides]

  22. Hokeun Kim, Liangpeng Guo, Edward A. Lee, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, "A Tool Integration Approach for Architectural Exploration of Aircraft Electric Power Systems", in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA). Taipei, Taiwan, August 19-20, 2013. [Talk Slides]

  23. David Broman, Michael Zimmer, Yooseong Kim, Hokeun Kim, Jian Cai, Aviral Shrivastava, Stephen A. Edwards, and Edward A. Lee, "Precision Timed Infrastructure: Design Challenges", in Proceedings of the Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference (ESLsyn). Austin, TX, May 31-June 1, 2013.

  24. Chanhee Lee, Hokeun Kim, Hae-woo Park, Sungchan Kim, Hyunok Oh, and Soonhoi Ha, "A Task Remapping Technique for Reliable Multi-core Embedded Systems", in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS). 2010, pp.307-316, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2010.

Patents

  1. Yan Zhao, Hokeun Kim, Lihua Zhao, and Jun Zeng. "Three-dimensional (3D) Object Printing Simulator", US10866575B2, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Registered in December 2020.

  2. Soonhoi Ha, Hokeun Kim and Boyung Lee. "Position Tracking System and Apparatus Using Signal Strength of Wireless Signal", KR101176141B1, Korean Intellectual Property Office, Registered in August 2012.

Preprints

  1. Peter Donovan, Erling Jellum, Byeonggil Jun, Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, Shaokai Lin, Marten Lohstroh, and Anirudh Rengarajan, "Strongly-Consistent Distributed Discrete-event Systems", arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12117, May 2024.

  2. Christian Menard, Marten Lohstroh, Soroush Bateni, Matthew Chorlian, Arthur Deng, Peter Donovan, Clément Fournier, Shaokai Lin, Felix Suchert, Tassilo Tanneberger, Hokeun Kim, Jeronimo Castrillon, and Edward A. Lee, "High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca", arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02444, January 2023.

  3. Soroush Bateni, Marten Lohstroh, Hou Seng Wong, Rohan Tabish, Hokeun Kim, Shaokai Lin, Christian Menard, Cong Liu, and Edward A. Lee, "Xronos: Predictable Coordination for Safety-Critical Distributed Embedded Systems", arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09555, July 2022.

Academic Services

Session Chair

Organizing Committee and Program Committee of Conferences

Reviewer

  • Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS)" of IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL, 2024)

  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN, 2024)

  • IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC, 2024)

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC, 2023 - 2024)

  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS, 2023 - 2024)

  • IEEE Access (2021 - 2022, 2024)

  • IEEE IT Professional (2023)

  • IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS, 2022 - 2023)

  • Springer - The Journal of Supercomputing (2023)

  • Computers & Security (Elsevier Journal, 2018 - 2023)

  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2020)

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2019)

  • Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (2019)

  • Additive Manufacturing (Elsevier Journal, 2018 - 2019)

  • USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC, 2018)

  • IEEE Software (2017)

  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (2015 - 2016)

Secondary Reviewer

  • IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS, 2017 - 2018)

  • ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT, 2013, 2015 and 2018)

  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS, 2014 and 2016)

Invited Talks and Presentations

  1. Keynote Talk at IEEE 4th Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium 2024 (CARS'24), Grand Forks, ND (October 2024)
    2. "Security and Safety of Internet-Connected Cyber-Physical Systems"

  2. Guest Lecture at Summer School of Forum on specification & Design Languages (FDL) 2024, Stockholm, Sweden (September 2024)
    3. "Introduction to Lingua Franca, a polyglot coordination language and runtime for time-sensitive reactive systems"

  3. Dream Lecture (with The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies) at Cheongwon High School, Seoul, Korea (November 2022)
    4. "Present and Future of Internet of Things"

  4. Guest Lecture at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (October 2022)
    5. "Guest Lecture - Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science: Securing the Internet of Things"

  5. Seminar, Incheon National University, Incheon, Korea (June 2022)
    6. "The gem5 Simulator for Computer Architecture Research"

  6. UCR ECE Colloquium, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Riverside, CA (April 2022)
    7. "Securing the Internet of Things" [Flyer]

  7. Embedded Systems Week Tutorial Sessions, Virtual Conference (October 2021)
    8. "Deterministic Reactive Programming for Cyber-Physical Systems Using Lingua Franca"
    by Soroush Bateni, Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, Shaokai Lin, Marten Lohstroh, Christian Menard, and Efsane Soyer
    [Wiki Page] [Slides] [YouTube Playlist]

  8. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University ERICA Campus, Ansan, Korea (October 2019)
    9. "Authentication & Authorization for the IoT: Issues, Challenges, and Architecture"

  9. Anti-Abuse Seminar, LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, CA (December 2017)
    10. "Authentication & Authorization for the IoT: Issues, Challenges, and Architecture"

  10. Toyota InfoTechnology Center (ITC) USA, Mountain View, CA (November 2017)
    11. "Authentication and Authorization for the IoT: An Edge Computing-Based Approach"

  11. Dept. of Information System, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (October 2017)
    12. "Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things"

  12. SNU CSE BK21 Plus Seminar, Seoul National University, Korea (October 2017)
    13. "Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things"

  13. Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), A Xerox Company, Palo Alto, CA (August 2017)
    14. "Locally Centralized, Globally Distributed Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things"

  14. ECE Special Seminar, UNIST, Korea (January 2017)
    15. "A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"

  15. Dept. of ECE, Ajou University, Korea (January 2017)
    16. "A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"

  16. Dept. of CSE, Seoul National University, Korea (December 2016)
    17. "A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"

  17. HP Internet of Things (IoT) Virtual Community Monthly Call, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA (December 2016)
    18. "A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"

  18. Swarm - TerraSwarm Seminar, EECS, University of California, Berkeley, CA (December 2016)
    19. "Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things"