Dr. Lee is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science Technology at University of Houston. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2022. His research interests broadly lie in the security of embedded systems including mobile computing, cyber-physical systems, and IoT. Among many challenges, he mainly focuses on developing secure and usable device authentication mechanisms leveraging various environmental contexts to prove coexistence of devices. He also actively works on the projects related to the field of hardware security and secure V2X network systems. He is a recipient of Cyber-Physical Systems Rising Star 2022, ECE Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship from UW-Madison, Best Demonstration Award at 2018 SIGDA University Demo. He has (co-)authored several papers published in UbiComp, IPSN, ICCD, WiSec, etc. 

• University of Houston     Houston TX

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Information Science Technology (Sep 2022 – Present)

• Samsung Research America     Mountain View CA​

  • Research Intern, KNOX Security Team (May 2016 – Aug 2016)

• University of Wisconsin–Madison     Madison WI 

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (May 2022)

    • Advisor: Prof. Younghyun Kim

• ​​Carnegie Mellon University     Pittsburgh PA ​​

  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (May 2017)

    • Advisor: Prof. Anthony Rowe

  • B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering​ (May 2016)

• Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Rising Star, CPS–VO @ NSF, 2022

• ECE Fall Dissertator Travel Award, UW–Madison, 2021

• Student Research Grants Competition, UW–Madison, 2019

• Richard Newton Young Fellow Award, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2022

• NSF Travel Grant, International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2018

• Best Demonstration Award in SIGDA University Demo, Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2018

• ECE Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, UW–Madison, 2017

• Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Award, Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium, 2017

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• University of Houston, Department of Information Science Technology (IST)

  • CIS 2337 Fundamentals of Information Security​ (Instructor) – F22, F23, S23, S24

  • CIS 6321 Principles of Cybersecurity (Instructor) – F23

  • CIS 4357 Digital Forensics (Instructor) – S24

  • Internet’s Impact of Export Controls – S23

  • Securing the Supply Chain via New Technologies – S23

• University of Wisconsin–Madison, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  • ​ECE 353 Introduction to Microprocessor Systems (Teaching assistant) – S19, S20

  • ECE 751 Embedded Computing Systems (Guest lecturer) – F20

• Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

  • ​18-549 Embedded Systems Design (Teaching assistant) – S17

  • 18-349 Real-Time Embedded Systems (Teaching assistant) – F16

• Kyuin Lee, "Internet’s Impact of Export Controls," "Securing the Supply Chain via New Technologies," Lecture @ Security and Strategic Trade Management Academy (SSTMA) by Department of State, Houston, TX, 2023

• Jakob Veselsky, Jack West, Isaac Ahlgren, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, Abhinav Goel, Wenxin Jiang, James Davis, Kyuin Lee, and Younghyun Kim, "Establishing trust in vehicle-to-vehicle coordination: a sensor fusion approach," Poster Session @ International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), Tempe, AZ, 2022
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• Kyuin Lee, "Secure and Usable Zero-interaction Pairing and Authentication Methods for the Internet-of-Things," CPS Rising Stars Workshop, Charlottesville, VA, 2022
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• Kyuin Lee, "Secure and Usable Zero-interaction Pairing and Authentication Methods for the Internet-of-Things," Ph.D. Forum @ Design Automation Conference (DAC), Virtual, 2021
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• Kyuin Lee, "Secure Pairing Methods for Ubiquitous IoT Devices," Richard Newton Young Student @ Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, 2018
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• Yongwoo Lee, and Kyuin Lee, "CamPUF: Physically Unclonable Function based on CMOS Image Sensor Fixed Pattern Noise," SIGDA University Demonstration @ Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, 2018
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• Kyuin Lee, and Shihan Wang, "Preventing Epidemics Via Sensing and Learning Mosquito Behaviors," Meeting of the Minds Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017

• Kyuin Lee, Younghyun Kim, Suman Banerjee, and Neil Klingenmith, “Pairing Apparatus Using Secret Key Based on Power Line Noise,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, US11700120B2, 2023
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• Kyuin Lee, Younghyun Kim, Suman Banerjee, and Neil Klingenmith, “Context-based Pairing Apparatus and Method Thereof,” U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, US11617085B2, 2023
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• Design Automation Conference, External Reviewer

• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, External Reviewer

• International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, External Reviewer

• Symposium on Applied Computing, External Reviewer

• International Conference on VLSI Design, External Reviewer

• The Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, External Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, External Reviewer