Kisung Park

Kisung Park

Assistant Professor

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the department of Smart Security @ Gachon University. Prior to joining GCU, I was a Researcher @ Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). I received the BS and MS degrees in electronics engineering, and the PhD degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Kyungpook National University (KNU), South Korea, in 2015, 2017, and 2021, respectively.

My research interests include trustworthy AI, AI/ML security, authentication, blockchain, network security, decentralized identifier, internet of things, privacy-preserving techniques, post-quantum cryptography, VA/FANET, and information security.

My lab is always open to highly motivational, enthusiastic and proactive graduate/ undergraduate students. I am also looking for postdocs to work with our researches.

Interests

  • Trustworthy AI
  • Applied Cryptography
  • Security and Privacy
  • AI/ML Security
  • Metaverse/Blockchain Security
  • Post-quantum Cryptography

Education

  • PhD in EE, 2021

    Kyungpook National University

  • MS in EE, 2017

    Kyungpook National University

  • BS in EE, 2015

    Kyungpook National University

Recent News

Jan 2026
Two papers accepted to IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics on decentralized privacy-preserving schemes for medical IoT and agricultural consumer electronics.
Nov 2025
Paper on 6G space-terrestrial handover authentication accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS).
2025
Selected as a Technical Program Committee member for IEEE ICC 2026 and a Program Committee member for IEEE SecDev (2024–2026).
2024
The Information Security & Privacy (ISNP) Lab was established at Gachon University. We are recruiting motivated graduate / undergraduate students and postdocs — please contact with your CV.

Publication

Bold = ISNP Lab · showing 8 most recent
SCIE Journals: 44 · International Conferences: 6
26
CEE
A post-quantum enabled signcryption scheme for securing Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks

Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 139, art. no. 111428, Nov. 2026

26
TCE
CARBON-Lyapunov: Carbon-Aware Edge–Cloud Collaboration with Lyapunov Optimization for Agricultural Consumer Electronics

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, accepted Mar. 2026

26
TCE
Full Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Data Access Control in Smart Consumer Electronic Devices for Medical IoT

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, accepted Jan. 2026

25
Access
PSL-AKA: Physically Secure and Lightweight Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol for Wearable Devices

IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 206138-206154, Dec. 2025

25
TIFS
An Efficient Handover Authentication Scheme for 6G-Enabled Space-Terrestrial Integrated Networks With Mobile Edge Computing

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 12157-12172, Nov. 2025

25
IoTJ
A Machine Learning Attack-Resistant PUF-based Robust and Efficient Mutual Authentication Scheme in Fog-enabled IoT Environments

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 20652-20669, Jun. 2025

25
TITS
BAPS-DITS: Blockchain-Enabled Accountable Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Decentralized Intelligent Transportation Systems

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 6749-6763, May 2025

Members

I am fortunate to work with the following members of the ISNP Lab

Current Members

  • Joohyun Kim | Research Intern — Blockchain, Cryptographic Protocol
  • Dongyeon Yoo | Research Intern — AI Security
  • Kyubin Park | Research Intern — Post-Quantum Cryptography, Applied Cryptography

Join us

  • The lab is always open to highly motivated graduate / undergraduate students and postdocs. Please contact Prof. Park with your CV.

Projects

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
2024 – present
Gachon University (Dept. of Smart Security)
Seongnam, S. Korea
 
 
 
 
 
Researcher
2021 – 2024
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Daejeon, S. Korea

Teaching

Courses at Gachon University (2026)

2026 Fall

  • Blockchain
  • Data Processing Programming
  • Data Communications

2026 Spring

  • Cryptographic Protocols
  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • Programming for Artificial Intelligence

Services

I am involved with the following services

Program / Technical Program Committee

IEEE SecDev (2024–2025), ACM SecDev (2026), IEEE INFOCOM 2023 (DroneCom), IEEE ICC (2026)

Reviewer

IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE TITS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TMC, and other IEEE/Elsevier SCIE journals

Contact

If you are interested in joining our member, please contact me with your CV or information.

  • kisung@gachon.ac.kr
  • +82-31-750-5699
  • #748 AI Engineering B/D, Gachon University (Global Campus), (13120) 1342 SeongnamDaero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea