Kyuwon Cho

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SSLAB, Sungkyunkwan University

Suwon, South Korea

kyuwon.cho@skku.edu

I am currently a Ph.D. student at SSLAB (System Security Lab), Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, advised by Hojoon Lee.

Research Interests

My research interests include, but are not limited to:

  • Software testing (fuzzing, sanitizers, etc.)
  • Hardware-accelerated security (e.g., ARM PAC, MTE)
  • Programming languages
  • Compilers for security
  • Systems security (kernel, hypervisor)

More detailed information is available in my CV and my Google Scholar profile.

news

Sep 19, 2026 Our papers RunaSan and DVSR were accepted to appear at ATC 2026. 🎉
Jul 01, 2026 Our paper eMPAC was accepted to appear at ESORICS 2026. 🎉
Aug 14, 2024 RustSan was presented at USENIX Security 2024.
Nov 30, 2023 Our paper Capacity received a Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS 2023. 🏆

publications

2026

  1. ATC '26
    RunaSan: A Rust-Native Sanitizer for Precise and Context-Sensitive Sanitization
    Jongyoon Kim, Kyuwon Cho, Hojoon Lee
    ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2026 (To appear)
  2. ATC '26
    Hardening Programs with Data Value Space Randomization of Semantically Arbitrary Values
    Jaeyoon Kim, Hajeong Lim, Kyuwon Cho, Hojoon Lee
    ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2026 (To appear)
  3. ESORICS'26
    eMPAC: Unlocking Full Potential of Pointer Authentication in Microcontrollers with Fat Pointers
    Sungsoo Kim, Jihoon Kim, Kyuwon Cho, Hojoon Lee
    European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2026
    Full paper

2024

  1. SEC '24
    RustSan: Retrofitting AddressSanitizer for Efficient Sanitization of Rust
    Kyuwon Cho, Jongyoon Kim, Kha Dinh Duy, Hajeong Lim, Hojoon Lee
    33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), 2024
    Full paperSlidesPresentation

2023

  1. CCS '23
    Capacity: Cryptographically-Enforced In-process Capabilities for Modern ARM Architectures
    Kha Dinh Duy, Kyuwon Cho, Taehyun Noh, Hojoon Lee
    ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023, Distinguished Paper Award
    Full paperAward certificate