Dr. Taesoo Kim

Biography

Taesoo Kim is a Professor and Director of GTS3 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in systems security. He is focused on building computing systems whose underlying principles justify security, including the design, analysis, and implementation of secure systems, and the clear separation of trusted components. Kim seeks to develop tools that can automatically identify the parts of an operating system affected by cyberattacks, allowing system administrators to recover with minimal manual effort. Since arriving at Georgia Tech, Kim has secured numerous research grants from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has continued to earn numerous honors, including the 2015 Internet Defense Prize from USENIX and competing as a finalist in the inaugural DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge with Team Disekt. Kim completed his doctorate in 2014 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked under professors Nickolai Zeldovich and Frans Kaashoek, specializing in systems security. His thesis focused on detecting and recovering from attacks on computer systems, and he developed tools to detect intrusions and identify affected parts of operating systems, facilitating recovery from attacks with significantly reduced manual effort. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering from KAIST in 2009 and both an SM and a PhD from MIT in 2011 and 2014, respectively.

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