Hyungon Moon (문현곤)

Associate Professor with Tenure
Department Head
Computer Systems Security Lab
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
UNIST

hyungon@unist.ac.kr
hyungon.moon@gmail.com

Building 106, Room 701-6
50 UNIST-gil
Eonyang-eup, Ulju, Ulsan, South Korea, 44919

Openings

Please visit the CSSL webpage to learn more about the current openings.

Publications (Fold)

2026

ASE

Safe Multi-Site Binary Instrumentation of Running x86-64 Programs.
Jihun Baek, Sanghoon Han, and Hyungon Moon.
International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE). (Accepted). Vulnerability RepairSoftware EngineeringSoftware Security
ICS

FaaSlim: Partial Caching of Snapshot-based VMs for Serverless Computing.
Sanghyeon Eom, Chanyoung Park, Gihong Lee, Hyungon Moon, and Young-ri Choi.
International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS). Operating SystemsCloud Computing
ICSE

Rethinking the Capability of Fine-Tuned Language Models for Automated Vulnerability Repair.
Woorim Han, Yeongjun Kwak, Miseon Yu, Kyeongmin Kim, Younghan Lee, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). Machine LearningAutomated Vulnerability RepairSoftware Engineering
ASPLOS

HEPIC: Private Inference over Homomorphic Encryption with Client Intervention.
Kevin Nam, Youyeon Joo, Seungjin Ha, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Homomorphic EncryptionOperating SystemsPrivacy

2025

ESORICS

Identifying Potential Timing Leakages from Hardware Design with Precondition Synthesis.
Minu Chung and Hyungon Moon.
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). Hardware SecurityModel CheckingProgramming Languages
Security

LOHEN: Layer-wise Optimizations for Neural Network Inferences over Encrypted Data with high Performance or Accuracy.
Kevin Nam, Youyeon Joo, Dongju Lee, Seungjin Ha, Hyunyoung Oh, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
USENIX Security Symposium (Security). Homomorphic EncryptionPrivacyCrypto
SP

Defeating Use-After-Free Bugs Using Memory Sweeper Without Stop-the-World.
Junho Ahn, KangHyuk Lee, Chanyoung Park, Hyungon Moon, and Youngjin Kwon.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Software SecurityOS
TDSC

Efficient Use-After-Free Prevention with Pooling, OS-assisted, and Opportunistic Page-Level Sweeping.
Chanyoung Park, Yeongjun Kwak, and Hyungon Moon.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). Software SecurityOS
FAST

Selective On-Device Execution of Data-Dependent Read I/Os.
Chanyoung Park, Minu Chung, and Hyungon Moon.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). OSStorage

2024

Security

MetaSafe: Compiling for Protecting Smart Pointer Metadata to Ensure Safe Rust Integrity.
Martin Kayondo, Inyoung Bang, Yeongjun Kwak, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
USENIX Security Symposium (Security). Software SecurityRustCompiler
NDSS

Efficient Use-After-Free Prevention with Opportunistic Page-Level Sweeping.
Chanyoung Park and Hyungon Moon.
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Software SecurityOS

2023

SoCC

KVSEV: A Secure In-Memory Key-Value Store with Secure Encrypted Virtualization.
Junseung You, Kyeongryong Lee, Hyungon Moon, Yeongpil Cho, and Yunheung Paek.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). Confidential ComputingOSCloud
ICCAD

Hyperdimensional Computing as a Rescue for Efficient Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning-as-a-Service.
Jaewoo Park, Chenghao Quan, Hyungon Moon, and Jongeun Lee.
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Homomorphic EncryptionPrivacyCrypto
Protecting Kernel Code integrity with PMP on RISC-V.
Seon Ha and Hyungon Moon.
World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA). OS
Security

TRust: A Compilation Framework for In-process Isolation to Protect Safe Rust against Untrusted Code.
Inyoung Bang, Martin Kayondo, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
USENIX Security Symposium (Security). Software SecurityRustCompiler
Kernel Code Integrity Protection at the Physical Address Level on RISC-V.
Seon Ha, Minsang Yu, Hyungon Moon, and Jongeun Lee.
IEEE Access (Access). OS SecurityOSArch
TMC

Ambassy: A Runtime Framework to Delegate Trusted Applications in an ARM/FPGA Hybrid System.
Dongil Hwang, Sanzhar Yeleuov, Jiwon Seo, Minu Chung, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Confidential ComputingOSAccelerator

2022

ICCAD

Accelerating N-bit Operations over TFHE on Commodity CPU-FPGA.
Kevin Nam, Hyunyoung Oh, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Homomorphic EncryptionPrivacyAccelerator
ESORICS

Precise Extraction of Deep Learning Models via Side-Channel Attacks on Edge/Endpoint Devices.
Younghan Lee, Sohee Jun, Yungi Cho, Woorim Han, Hyungon Moon, and Yunheung Paek.
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). Machine Learning
DATE

XtenStore: Extensible Secure In-memory Key-Value Store on a Hybrid x86-FPGA System.
Hyunyoung Oh, Maja Malenko, Dongil Hwang, Myunghyun Cho, Hyungon Moon, Marcel Baunach, and Yunheung Paek.
Design, Automation \& Test in Europe (DATE). Interactive Presentation. Confidential ComputingCloudAccelerator
FAST

A Log-Structured Merge Tree-aware Message Authentication Scheme for Persistent Key-Value Stores.
Igjae Kim, J. Hyun Kim, Minu Chung, Hyungon Moon, and Sam H. Noh.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). OSStorageConfidential Computing

2019

ATC

libmpk: Software Abstraction for Intel Memory Protection Keys (Intel MPK).
Soyeon Park, Sangho Lee, Wen Xu, Hyungon Moon, and Taesoo Kim.
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Software SecurityOS
SP

Fuzzing File Systems via Two-Dimensional Input Space Exploration.
Wen Xu, Hyungon Moon, Sanidhya Kashyap, Po-Ning Tseng, and Taesoo Kim.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Software SecurityOSTesting
TDSC

KI-Mon ARM: A Hardware-assisted Event-triggered Monitoring Platform for Mutable Kernel Object.
Hojoon Lee, Hyungon Moon, Ingoo Heo, Daehee Jang, Jinsoo Jang, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek, and Brent Byunghoon Kang.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). OS SecurityOSArch

2018

RAID

Hardware-Assisted Randomization of Data.
Brian Belleville^***, Hyungon Moon^***, Jangseop Shin, Dongil Hwang, Joseph Michael Nash, Seonhwa Jung, Yeoul Na, Stijn Volckaert, Per Larsen, Yunheung Paek, and Michael Franz.
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID). ^***: joint first authors, contributted equally. Software SecurityArchCompiler

2017

Architectural Supports to Protect OS Kernels from Code-Injection Attacks and Their Applications.
Hyungon Moon, Jinyong Lee, Dongil Hwang, Seonhwa Jung, Jiwon Seo, and Yunheung Paek.
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES). OS SecurityOSArch
TDSC

Detecting and Preventing Kernel Rootkit Attacks with Bus Snooping.
Hyungon Moon, Hojoon Lee^***, Ingoo Heo, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek, and Brent Byunghoon Kang.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). ^***: co-first author. OS SecurityOSArch

2016

Architectural Supports to Protect OS Kernels from Code-Injection Attacks.
Hyungon Moon, Jinyong Lee, Dongil Hwang, Seonhwa Jung, Jiwon Seo, and Yunheung Paek.
Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy (HASP). OS SecurityOSArch
SP

HDFI: Hardware-Assisted Data-Flow Isolation.
Chengyu Song, Hyungon Moon, Monjur Alam, Insu Yun, Byoungyoung Lee, Taesoo Kim, Wenke Lee, and Yunheung Paek.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). Software SecurityArchCompiler

2015

DATE

Extrax: Security Extension to Extract Cache Resident Information for Snoop-based External Monitors.
Jinyong Lee, Yonje Lee, Hyungon Moon, Ingoo Heo, and Yunheung Paek.
Design, Automation \& Test in Europe (DATE). OS SecurityOSArch
Efficient Kernel Integrity Monitor Design for Commodity Mobile Application Processors.
Ingoo Heo, Daehee Jang, Hyungon Moon, Hansoo Cho, Seungwook Lee, Brent Byunghoon Kang, and Yunheung Paek.
Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science (JSTS). OS SecurityOSArch

2013

Security

KI-Mon: A Hardware-assisted Event-triggered Monitoring Platform for Mutable Kernel Object.
Hojoon Lee, Hyungon Moon, Daehee Jang, Kihwan Kim, Jihoon Lee, Yunheung Paek, and Brent Byunghoon Kang.
USENIX Security Symposium (Security). OS SecurityOSArch

2012

CCS

Vigilare: Toward Snoop-based Kernel integrity Monitor.
Hyungon Moon, Hojoon Lee, Jihoon Lee, Kihwan Kim, Yunheung Paek, and Brent Byunghoon Kang.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). OS SecurityOSArch

Some Program Committee Activities

USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST): 2023, 2025, 2026
ACM EuroSys: 2025, 2026
USENIX Security Symposium: 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027

Teaching

2026 Fall: Building Customized Computers (CSE302)
2025 Fall: Building Customized Computers (CSE302)
2024 Spring: Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE511)
2023 Fall: Principles of Programming Languages (CSE271)
2023 Spring: Advanced Operating Systems (CSE514)
2022 Fall: Building Customized Computers (CSE302)
2022 Spring: Software Hacking and Defense (UNI204)
2022 Spring: Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE511)
2021 Fall: Computer Architecture (CSE261)
2021 Fall: Principles of Programming Languages (CSE271)
2021 Spring: Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE511)
2020 Fall: Advanced Computer Architecture (CSE511)
2020 Fall: Principles of Programming Languages (CSE341)
2020 Spring: Computer Security (CSE467)
2019 Fall: Special Topics in CSE Ⅱ (Software and Systems Security) (CSE481)
2019 Spring: Data Structures (CSE221)
2019 Spring: System Programming (CSE251)
2018 Fall: Special Topics in CSE Ⅱ (Computer Systems Security) (CSE481)