✨ About me

I am a student in the CSSLAB (Computer System Security Lab) at UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea), under the supervision of Prof. Hyungon Moon.
My research interests are in confidential computing and secure storage systems.

In my free time, I enjoy swimming and am a big fan of the NC Dinos. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

📄 Research Interests

  • Confidential Computing and Trusted Execution Environments

    I study the design of secure systems built on hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) such as Intel SGX, Intel TDX, and AMD SEV-SNP. My focus is on leveraging these technologies to protect data confidentiality and integrity in untrusted environments, while addressing practical challenges in scalability and performance.

  • Secure and Distributed Storage Systems

    I am interested in building storage systems—particularly key-value stores (KVS)—that operate securely in cloud and distributed settings. My research explores how to integrate TEE-based protection into both single-node and distributed KVS architectures, ensuring secure data processing, replication, and access control without sacrificing performance.

  • Broadly Interested in Confidential Computing

    Beyond the areas above, I am open to any research topic in confidential computing, including attestation protocols, secure multi-party computation, privacy-preserving analytics, and emerging confidential workload architectures. I welcome collaboration on new problems in this space.

🔐 Research Goal

  • I want to make secure computer systems for everyone.

2023

  • JOK
    RTL 수준 프로세서 구현으로부터의 ISA 명세 자동 추출 기법
    (Extracting Instruction Set Architecture Semantics from a Processor Register-transfer Level)

    Seon Ha, Hyungon Moon

    정보과학회논문지 제50권 제10호 2023.10 827 - 835 (9page) 정보과학회논문지 Journal of KIISE (JOK)

    Paper link
  • WISA
    Protecting Kernel Code integrity with PMP on RISC-V

    Seon Ha, Hyungon Moon

    World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA) 2023

  • Access
    Kernel Code Integrity Protection at the Physical Address Level on RISC-V

    Seon Ha, Minsang Yu, Hyungon Moon, Jongeun Lee

    IEEE Access (Access) 2023

    Paper link

2022

  • KSC
    [우수논문] RTL 수준 프로세서구현으로부터의 ISA 명세 자동 추출 기법
    (Extracting ISA semantics from a processor RTL)

    Seon Ha, Hyungon Moon

    한국정보과학회 2022 한국소프트웨어종합학술대회 논문집 2022.12 891 - 893 (3page) KSC 2022

    Paper link
  • Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

    Ph.D. in Computer Science

    Ulsan, Korea

    Mar. 2021 - Present

  • Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

    Master of Science in Computer Science

    Ulsan, Korea

    Mar. 2019 - Feb. 2021

  • University of Science and Technology

    Master of Information Security Engineering

    Daejeon, Korea

    Mar. 2018 - Aug. 2018

  • Dalian Ocean University

    Exchange Student

    Dalian, China

    Aug. 2016 - Feb. 2017

  • Pukyong National University

    Bachelor of Engineering in information and communication engineering

    Busan, Korea

    Mar. 2013 - Feb. 2018

  • ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute)

    Software Engineer

    • Indoor Localization: We researched to improve the accuracy of beacon recognition indoors.
    Daejeon, Korea

    Jul. 2017 - Oct. 2017

🏆 Awards

  • KISBIC - Korea information security BOB Idea cup

    KETRI(Korea Information Technology Research Institute), Korea

    Create excellent information protection ideas and raise public awareness of security.

    Netizen special prize

    Feb. 2015

🎶 Activities

  • CERT-IS

    Pukyong National University Security Club

    Mar. 2014 - Feb. 2018

  • Microsoft Student Partners 8th

    Microsoft Korea

    Aug. 2014 - Aug. 2015

Last updated: Mar. 2026