Jiwon Kim

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at Purdue University.

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kim1685@purdue.edu

250 N University St

West Lafayette, IN 47907

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. I work in PurSec Lab under the supervision of Prof. Dave (Jing) Tian. My research interests lie in the field of computer and network security. In particular, I am interested in secure architectures for future networks and systems, including cloud networking, software-defined networking (SDN), intent-based networking (IBN), and programmable networking with P4. Before joining Purdue, I worked in the industry for almost 4 years as a research engineer to design and develop SDN and cloud networking products.

news

Jul 10, 2025 Our paper with my mentored undergrad student on finding new IBN vulnerabilities has been accepted at IEEE SecDev 2025! :sparkles:
May 14, 2025 Our paper on fuzzing P4 network infrastructure presented at IEEE S&P 2025! :fire:
Feb 13, 2025 I will work as a SWE intern at Meta for Summer 2025 :star:
Oct 14, 2024 Our collaborated paper on finding temporal vulnerabilities in Intent-Based Networking presented at ACM CCS 2024! :fire:
Jun 21, 2024 Our research article on security challenges in Intent-Based Networking posted in Communications of the ACM! :fire:

latest posts

selected publications

  1. Chimera: Fuzzing P4 Network Infrastructure for Multi-Plane Bug Detection and Vulnerability Discovery
    Jiwon Kim, Dave (Jing) Tian, and Benjamin E Ujcich
    46th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P ’25), May 2025
    (acceptance rate: 257/1740 = 14.8%)
  2. Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-Based Networking
    Ben Weintraub, Jiwon Kim, Ran Tao, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Hamed Okhravi, Dave (Jing) Tian, and Benjamin E Ujcich
    31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ’24), Oct 2024
    (acceptance rate: 331/1964 = 16.9%)
  3. Intender: Fuzzing Intent-Based Networking with Intent-State Transition Guidance
    Jiwon Kim, Benjamin E Ujcich, and Dave (Jing) Tian
    32nd USENIX Security Symposium (Security ’23), Aug 2023
    (acceptance rate: 442/1444 = 29.2%)