Jaehyun Nam, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Engineering, Dankook University, Republic of Korea
namjh@dankook.ac.kr • https://boanlab.com
🚀 Introduction
Jaehyun Nam is an assistant professor in Department of Computer Engineering, College of SW Convergence, Dankook University. He is also maintaining a CNCF sandbox project, KubeArmor. He received his Ph.D. in School of Computing (advisor, Professor Seungwon Shin) from KAIST. He previously received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Sogang University and his M.S. in Graduate School of Information Security (advisor, Professor KyoungSoo Park) from KAIST. Before joining Dankook University, he was a principal scientist at AccuKnox and designed various security solutions for today’s cloud and edge computing systems.
Research Keywords:
- Cloud Observability and Security
- Secure Cloud Infrastructure
- AI Security Automation
- Adaptive Policy Synthesis
🏛 Professional Experience
Dankook University | Nov 2025 – Present
- Director, Open-Source SW Center, SW-Centered University Program
- Coordinate research and education programs focused on open source SW.
- Build and operate the on-premise private cloud infrastructure known as SOLID Cloud.
Dankook University | Sept 2022 – Present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, SW Convergence College
AccuKnox | Jul 2020 – Aug 2022
- Principal Scientist
- Lead of a CNCF project, KubeArmor, for cloud-native runtime security enforcement.
- Researched system/network security for cloud/edge computing (Runtime security, anomaly detection using eBPF & ML/DL).
KAIST | Mar 2020 – Jun 2020
- Post-doctoral Researcher (Supervisor: Seungwon Shin)
- Research on container network security using XDP/eBPF.
SRI International | Multiple Terms
- Research Observer (May 2019 – Aug 2019): Security-enforcement network stack for container networks.
- International Fellow (Sept 2018 – Nov 2018): Reinforcement learning system for cloud resource management.
- Research Observer (Dec 2017 – Mar 2018): Secure container architecture & vulnerability analysis.
- International Fellow (Jun 2016 – Aug 2016): International SDN testbed for security evaluation.
- Research Observer (Dec 2015 – Feb 2016): Composable SDN Control Plane.
Republic of Korea Army | Apr 2007 – Mar 2008
- Information Security Technician (CERT)
🎓 Education
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| Ph.D. in School of Computing |
KAIST (2015 – 2020) |
- Thesis: Architectural Approaches to Enhancing the Performance and Security of Cloud Networks
- Advisor: Seungwon Shin
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| M.S. in Information Security |
KAIST (2013 – 2015) |
- Thesis: Scaling the Performance of Intrusion Detection System on Many-Core Processors
- Advisor: Kyoungsoo Park
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| B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering |
Sogang University (2010 – 2013) |
📝 Publications
2026
- [INFOCOM] RDNet: An RDMA-aware Container Network Interface for Cloud Environments
- Myoungsung You, Minjae Seo, Seungwon Shin, and Jaehyun Nam
- [NDSI] HybridMesh: A Hardware-software Hybrid Approach for Accelerating Service Mesh Ingress
- Myoungsung You, Jaehyun Nam, Minjae Seo, Taejune Park, and Seungwon Shin
2025
- [Sensors] Aquila: Efficient In-Kernel System Call Telemetry for Cloud-Native Environments
- Juyong Shin, Jisu Kim, and Jaehyun Nam
- [SIGCOMM Short] HardMesh: Enabling High-performance Service Mesh Ingress Processing with SmartNICs
- Myoungsung You, Jaehyun Nam, Minjae Seo, Taejune Park, and Seungwon Shin
2024
- [Sensors] On the Analysis of Inter-Relationship between Auto-Scaling Policy and QoS of FaaS Workloads
- Sara Hong, Yeeun Kim, Jaehyun Nam, and Seongmin Kim
- [ICDCS] HardWhale: A Hardware-isolated Network Security Enforcement System for Cloud Environments
- Myoungsung You, Jaehyun Nam, Hyunmin Seo, Minjae Seo, and Seungwon Shin
- [TCC] Hyperion: Hardware-based High-performance and Secure System for Container Networks
- Myoungsung You, Minjae Seo, Jaehan Kim, Seungwon Shin, and Jaehyun Nam
- [TIFS] Ambusher: Exploring the Security of Distributed SDN Controllers through Protocol State Fuzzing
- Jinwoo Kim, Minjae Seo, Seungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Nam, and Seungwon Shin
- [JCC] Optimus: Association-based Dynamic System Call Filtering for Container Attack Surface Reduction
- Seungyong Yang, Brent Byunghoon Kang, and Jaehyun Nam
- [Computer Networks] Enhancing security in SDN: Systematizing attacks and defenses from a penetration perspective
- Jinwoo Kim, Minjae Seo, Seungsoo Lee, Jaehyun Nam, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Guofei Gu, and Seungwon Shin
2023
- [SoCC] HELIOS: Hardware-assisted High-performance Security Extension for Cloud
- Myoungsung You, Jaehyun Nam, Minjae Seo, and Seungwon Shin
- [IEEE Access] Kunerva: Automated Network Policy Discovery Framework for Containers
- Seungsoo Lee and Jaehyun Nam
2022
- [ToN] Secure Inter-Container Communications using XDP/eBPF
- Jaehyun Nam, Seungsoo Lee, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Seungwon Shin
- [JNCA] Reconfigurable Regular Expression Matching Architecture for Real-time Pattern Update and Payload Inspection
- Jaehyun Nam, Seung Ho Na, Seungwon Shin, Taejune Park
- [ToN] A Framework for Policy Inconsistency Detection in Software-Defined Networks
- Seungsoo Lee, Seungwon Woo, Jinwoo Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, and Seungwon Shin
2021
- [ACSAC] Reinhardt: Real-time Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for Regular Expression Matching for DPI
- Taejune Park, Jaehyun Nam, Seung Ho Na, Jaewoong Chung, and Seungwon Shin
- [TIFS] BottleNet: Hiding Network Bottlenecks using SDN-based Topology Deception
- Jinwoo Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Suyeol Lee, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, and Seungwon Shin
2020
- [USENIX ATC] BASTION: A Security Enforcement Network Stack for Container Networks
- Jaehyun Nam, Seungsoo Lee, Hyunmin Seo, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Seungwon Shin
2019
- [Computer Networks] SODA: A Software-defined Security Framework for IoT Environments
- Yeonkeun Kim, Jaehyun Nam, Taejune Park, Sandra Scott-Hayward, and Seungwon Shin (* equal contribution)
- [ToN] Operator-defined Reconfigurable Network OS for Software-Defined Networks
- Jaehyun Nam, Hyeonseong Jo, Yeonkeun Kim, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Seungwon Shin
2018
- [INFOCOM] Barista: An Event-centric NOS Composition Framework for Software-Defined Networks
- Jaehyun Nam, Hyeonseong Jo, Yeonkeun Kim, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Seungwon Shin
- [SOSR] Probius: Automated Approach for VNF and Service Chain Analysis in Software-Defined NFV
- Jaehyun Nam, Junsik Seo, and Seungwon Shin
- [SCN] NOSArmor: Building a Secure Network Operating System
- Hyeonseong Jo, Jaehyun Nam, and Seungwon Shin
2015
- [RAID] Haetae: Scaling the Performance of Network Intrusion Detection with Many-core Processors
- Jaehyun Nam, Muhammad Jamshed, Byungkwon Choi, Dongsu Han and KyoungSoo Park
🏆 Honors & Awards
- Nov 2025: President Award, NIA (Best Paper at ACK 2025)
- May 2025: President Award, ETRI (Best Paper at ASK 2025)
- Nov 2024: President Award, KISA (Best Paper at ACK 2024)
- May 2024: President Award, NIPA (Best Paper at ASK 2024)
- Sept 2023: Grand Prize, Cyber Security Paper Award
- Sept 2022: Excellence Prize, Cyber Security Paper Award
- Feb 2020: Silver Prize, Samsung Human-tech Paper Award
- Nov 2018: NAVER Ph.D. Fellowship Award
- Oct 2016: Best SDN Solution Showcase Award (SDN World Congress)
- Dec 2015: Prize from Ministry of The Interior (Best Paper at CISC)
🔬 Research Projects
- Development of High Available and High Performance 6G Cross Cloud Infrastructure Technology (IITP, Jan 2025 - Present)
- Research on Cloud-Native Crypto Agility (Samsung SDS, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024)
- Cloud Continuum for Enabling Large Scale AI Services (IITP, July 2023 - Present)
- Cloud-native Workload Observability and Runtime Security Enforcement (NRF, Mar 2023 – Present)
- Development of SDN Security Technologies (IITP, Aug 2018 – Dec 2019)
- Network Security Enhancement using SDN/NFV (Samsung Electronics, Apr 2017 – Dec 2017)
- Korea-US Collaborative Research on SDN/NFV Security/Network Management (IITP, Jun 2015 – May 2017)
- Research on DPI/IDS Technology with Many-Core NICS (SK Telecom, Sept 2013 – Feb 2014)
🏫 Teaching
Dankook University (Since 2022)
- Computer Architecture, Cloud Virtualization, SW Architecture (Spring)
- Software Engineering, Distributed Computing, Infrastructure Design (Fall)
KAIST (TA)
- Network Systems and Security, Information Security, Advanced Theory for InfoSec
🛠 Skills
| Category |
Technology Stack |
| Languages |
C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Linux Shell Scripting |
| Cloud & DevOps |
Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, CloudStack |
| Core Tech |
eBPF/XDP, System Security, Network Security |
Last updated: Feb. 2026