Publications

Conference Papers

1. EMNLP

   COIN: A Live, Large-scale Benchmark for Semantics-to-Input Code Reasoning

   Jiho Kim, Cen Zhang, Youngjoon Kim, and 4 more authors

   In The 31st Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 26). To appear , 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kim2026coin,
     title = {COIN: A Live, Large-scale Benchmark for Semantics-to-Input Code Reasoning},
     author = {Kim, Jiho and Zhang, Cen and Kim, Youngjoon and Kim, Dongkwan and Lee, Brian Junekyu and Jeong, Dae R. and Kim, Taesoo},
     booktitle = {The 31st Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 26)},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. ASE

   CtxFuzz: Context-Aware Directed Fuzzing via Runtime Fuzzer–Agent Cooperation

   Jiho Kim, Dongkwan Kim, HyungSeok Han, and 6 more authors

   In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 26). To appear , 2026

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{kim2026ctxfuzz,
     title = {CtxFuzz: Context-Aware Directed Fuzzing via Runtime Fuzzer–Agent Cooperation},
     author = {Kim, Jiho and Kim, Dongkwan and Han, HyungSeok and Kim, Youngjoon and Park, Soyeon and Ji, Sangwoo and Wang, Joshua and Jeong, Dae R. and Kim, Taesoo},
     booktitle = {IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 26)},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. SEC

   SoK: DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC): Competition Design, Architectures, and Lessons Learned

   Cen Zhang, Younggi Park, Fabian Fleischer, and 18 more authors

   In 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 26), 2026

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{zhang2026sok,
     title = {SoK: DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC): Competition Design, Architectures, and Lessons Learned},
     author = {Zhang, Cen and Park, Younggi and Fleischer, Fabian and Fu, Yu-Fu and Kim, Jiho and Kim, Dongkwan and Kim, Youngjoon and Xu, Qingxiao and Chin, Andrew and Sheng, Ze and Zhao, Hanqing and Pelican, Michael and Musliner, David J. and Huang, Jeff and Silliman, Jon and Mcdaniel, Mikel and Casavant, Jefferson and Goldthwaite, Isaac and Vidovich, Nicholas and Lehman, Matthew and Kim, Taesoo},
     booktitle = {35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 26)},
     year = {2026},
   }

4. WOOT

   OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security

   Andrew Chin, Dongkwan Kim, Yu-Fu Fu, and 7 more authors

   In 20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 26), 2026

   Bib HTML Code

   @inproceedings{chin2026osscrs,
     title = {OSS-CRS: Liberating AIxCC Cyber Reasoning Systems for Real-World Open-Source Security},
     author = {Chin, Andrew and Kim, Dongkwan and Fu, Yu-Fu and Fleischer, Fabian and Kim, Youngjoon and Han, HyungSeok and Zhang, Cen and Lee, Brian Junekyu and Zhao, Hanqing and Kim, Taesoo},
     booktitle = {20th USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 26)},
     year = {2026},
   }

5. SEC

   Logs In, Patches Out: Automated Vulnerability Repair via Tree-of-Thought LLM Analysis

   Youngjoon Kim, Sunguk Shin, Hyoungshick Kim, and 1 more author

   In 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 25). Hyoungshick Kim and Jiwon Yoon are corresponding authors , 2025

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{kim2025logs,
     title = {Logs In, Patches Out: Automated Vulnerability Repair via Tree-of-Thought LLM Analysis},
     author = {Kim, Youngjoon and Shin, Sunguk and Kim, Hyoungshick and Yoon, Jiwon},
     booktitle = {34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 25)},
     year = {2025},
   }

6. ICLR

   Enhancing Graph of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control

   Sunguk Shin and Youngjoon Kim

   In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Youngjoon Kim is the corresponding author , 2025

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{shin2025enhancing,
     title = {Enhancing Graph of Thought: Enhancing Prompts with LLM Rationales and Dynamic Temperature Control},
     author = {Shin, Sunguk and Kim, Youngjoon},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
     year = {2025},
   }

7. RAID

   SCVMON: Data-oriented attack recovery for RVs based on safety-critical variable monitoring

   Sangbin Park, Youngjoon Kim, and Donghoon Lee

   In Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2023

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{park2023scvmon,
     title = {SCVMON: Data-oriented attack recovery for RVs based on safety-critical variable monitoring},
     author = {Park, Sangbin and Kim, Youngjoon and Lee, Donghoon},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID)},
     year = {2023},
   }