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.

doctoral publications

  1. SecDev 2025
    Exploiting Intent-Flow State Vulnerabilities in Intent-Based Networking
    Angela Yan, Jiwon Kim, Benjamin E Ujcich, and Dave (Jing) Tian
    IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev’25), Oct 2025
  2. 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%)
  3. 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%)
  4. CACM 2024
    Security Challenges of Intent-Based Networking
    Jiwon Kim, Hamed Okhravi, Dave (Jing) Tian, and Benjamin E Ujcich
    Communications of the ACM, Jul 2024
  5. 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%)