Overview
Background
Prospective Students
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Short Biography
Dr. Dan Dongseong Kim is Deputy Director of UQ Cybersecurity and an Associate Professor (in the commonwealth system, is broadly equivalent to a North American full professor) (continuing appointment) in Cyber Security at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia. Before UQ, he was a faculty member (permanent academic staff; Senior Lecturer 2015-2018, Lecturer 2011-2014) in Cyber Security in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Canterbury (UC), Christchurch, New Zealand from 2011 to 2018. From 2008 to 2011, he was a postdoc at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in the US. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland in the US in 2007. His research interests are in Cyber Security and Dependability for various systems and networks. Please visit his research team webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/dsteam/
Publications
- Google Scholars (6000+ citations, h-index: 40, i10-index: 111): https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dIIYVQkAAAAJ&hl=en
- DBLP (170+ publications): https://dblp.org/pid/k/DongSeongKim.html
Research Focus: Cyber G.A.M.E
- Graphical Models for Cyber Security: Model-based Cyber Security Risk Analysis
- AI for Cybersecurity & Cyber Security for AI: Securing AI systems and Cybersecurity using AI techniques
- Moving Target Defense (MTD): Resilient and Proactive Defence
- Evolving Attacks and Defense Automation: Red team and Blue team Automation and evaluation using AI
Professional Activities (selected)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor: 33.84 (2022-2023), #1 impact factor among all the IEEE journals), 2021 - present.
- Editorial Board Member, Elsevier Computers and Security (impact factor: 5.6 (2023)), 2019 - present.
- Editorial Board Member, Elsevier Computer Networks (impact factor: 5.6 (2023)), April 2022 - present.
- An Elected Member of the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance (2021 onwards).
- The IFIP WG 10.4 consists of over 60 experts in the field of fault-tolerance, dependable and secure computing.
- Steering committee member of IFIP/IEEE DSN, 2021-2025.
- Steering committee chair of IEEE PRDC, 2022-present.
- Steering committee member of IEEE PRDC, 2019-present.
- TPC member of international conferences including IFIP/IEEE DSN, SRDS, ISSRE, ICDCS, etc.
Selected publications
- Adversarial Machine Learning for Network Intrusion Detection Systems: A Comprehensive Survey, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (Impact factor in 2021: 33.84)
- Toward Proactive, Adaptive Defense: A Survey on Moving Target Defense, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2020 [Impact Factor 2018-19: 22.973]
- A Survey on Threat Situation Awareness Systems: Framework, Techniques, and Insights, ACM Computing Surveys, 2022 [Impact Factor 2021-22: 10.282, ranked 4/137 in Computer Science Theory & Methods]
- Evaluating the effectiveness of shuffle and redundancy MTD techniques in the cloud. Computers & Security (2021) [Impact factor: 4.438]
- Threat-Specific Security Risk Evaluation in the Cloud. IEEE Trans. Cloud Comput. 9(2): 793-806 (2021) [Impact factor: 4.714]
- Dynamic Security Metrics for Measuring the Effectiveness of Moving Target Defense Techniques, Computers & Security, Elsevier, 2018 [Impact factor: 4.438]
- Assessing the Effectiveness of Moving Target Defenses using Security Models. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), 2016. [CORE Rank A, Impact factor: 6.404]
- Recovery from software failures caused by Mandelbugs. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2016. [CORE Rank A, Impact factor: 2.79]
- Sensitivity Analysis of Server Virtualized System Availability. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 61(4): 994-1006, 2012. [CORE Rank A, Impact factor: 2.293]
- Scalable Optimal Countermeasure Selection using Implicit Enumeration on Attack Countermeasure Trees, IEEE/IFIP DSN 2012 [CORE Rank A*]
Research Sponsors (past and current)
- NSF (US), IBM T.J. Watson (US), US Army Research Lab. (US), NEC (Japan), Tait Comm. (NZ), MBIE (NZ), NPRP (Qatar), ADD (Republic of Korea), NRF (Republic of Korea), etc.
Recent Ph.D. graduates (selected)
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Kok Onn Chee (Ph.D., University of Queensland, 2024: Principal Advisor): Security Modelling and Analysis of Internet of Things against Evolving Attacks.
- Minjune Kim (Ph.D., , University of Queensland, 2023: Principal Advisor): Security and performance evaluation of software defined networking adopting moving target defenses (Research Engineer at CSRIO's Data61, Australia).
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Dilli P. Sharma (Ph.D., University of Canterbury, 2020; senior supervisor at UC, -> co-supervisor at UQ): Software-defined networking based moving target defenses. (Postdoc at U. of New Brunswick, Canada -> Postdoc at the University of Toronto, Canada).
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Taehoon Eom (Ph.D., 2020, KAU, Korea, co-supervisor): Security modeling and analysis for performance enhancement in software defined network (Researcher at KAU-> Research Professor at KAU -> Artificial Intelligence Industry Cluster Agency (AICA), South Korea).
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Hooman Alavizadeh (Ph.D., Massey University, NZ, 2019, co-supervisor): Effective Security Analysis for Combinations of MTD Techniques on Cloud Computing (a Postdoc, Massey University -> Postdoc at UNSW Canberra->Lecturer at U of Sydney-> Lecturer (continuing academic staff), La Trobe University, Australia).
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Kieran Morris (Ph.D., ECE, University of Canterbury, NZ, 2019, co-supervisor): Reliability and resilience evaluation of distribution automation (first employment: Tait communications, NZ-> Noted Ltd ).
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Simon (Enochson) Yusuf (Ph.D., Computer Science, NZ, University of Canterbury, Dec 2018, senior supervisor): Dynamic Cyber Security Modeling and Analysis (Postdoc at UQ-> Lecturer (continuing academic staff) at Federal University Kashere (FUK), Gombe, Nigeria -> Lecturer at Whitecliffe College, New Zealand. )
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Mengmeng Ge (Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Canterbury, 2018; senior supervisor): Graphical security modeling and assessment for the Internet of things (Lecturer (continuing academic) in Cybersecurity at Deakin University -> RMIT University, Australia -> Deloitte New Zealand-> Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury, New Zealand).
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Iman Elmir (Ph.D., Hassan 1st Univ. Morocco, 2017, co-supervisor): Security Modeling and Analysis of Intrusion Tolerant Data Centers
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Jin B. Hong (Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Canterbury, April 2015, senior supervisor): Scalable and Adaptable Security Modeling and Analysis. (First employment: Postdoc, UC, NZ -> Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Cybersecurity at U of Western Australia)
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Nguyen Tuan Anh (Ph.D., August 2015, KAU, co-supervisor): Availability Modeling and Analysis of Data Center Systems using Stochastic Reward Nets. (Postdoc, Kunkuk University, South Korea -> an Academic Research Professor, Kunkuk University, South Korea)
Cyber Security Research Experience
Dan Dongseong Kim has been working on various topics in computer and network security since 2001. Dan started his research with crypto algorithms design, implementation, and testing for hardware devices such as FPGA/ASICs. Then, he worked on machine learning/data mining approaches for (host-based, network-based) intrusion detection from 2001 onward. His master's thesis was a machine learning (ML)-based network intrusion detection. He worked on various computer and network security topics such as an intelligent SIEM (it was called enterprise security management at that time), authentication protocols for RFID systems, security and privacy for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), etc. His Ph.D. topics were security and privacy for WSNs. He spent one year as a visiting scholar at The University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, Maryland in the US in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Virgil D. Gligor.
He started working on dependability more seriously in addition to Cyber Security in 2008 when he started his postdoc research at Duke University under the supervision of the Hudson Chaired Professor Kishor S. Trivedi. He worked on research projects funded by the US NSF, NEC Japan, and IBM T.J. Watson in the area of dependability (availability/performance) of data centers/cloud computing and cybersecurity modeling & analysis.
Since he became a faculty member at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand in August 2011, he explored deeply the area of graphical models for cybersecurity, metrics, measurement, and efficient evaluation methods for automated cybersecurity modeling and analysis and applied those key ideas to Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Moving Target Defenses (MTD), cyber deception, and automated cyber-attacks generation. He worked with diverse groups of people from various countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Mongolia, Morocco, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, USA, UK, and Vietnam.
Academic Genealogy
As for his academic genealogy, his Ph.D. thesis advisor was
- Jong-Sou Park (Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1994); his one was
- Paul Thomas Hulina (Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., 1969); then it runs back through
- Jon Gustav Bredeson (Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1967),
- Seifollah Louis Hakimi (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Ph.D., 1959),
- Mac Van Valkenburg (Stanford University, Ph.D., 1952),
- Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr. (Stanford University, Ph.D., 1949),
- Frederick Emmons Terman (widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1924, Sc.D.) and
- Vannevar Bush (Jointly Harvard/MIT, D. Eng., 1916) to
- Arthur Edwin Kennelly (Professor at Harvard/MIT) (who was working in Thomas Edison's West Orange Laboratory from December 1887 to March 1894) and Dugald C. Jackson.
His postdoc advisor is Professor Kishor S. Trivedi (UIUC, Ph.D., 1974) who is a Life Fellow of IEEE and the Hudson Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, USA. Please visit the academic tree from Duglad C. Jackson up to the ancestors at the academic tree (link).
Availability
- Associate Professor Dan Kim is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy of Computer Engineering, Korea Aerospace University (Hankuk Aviation University)
Research interests
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) for cyber security
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Adversarial attacks to AI and countermeasures
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Cybersecurity Modeling and Analysis: Models, Metrics, Measurement and Visualisation
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Interpretable, dependable and secure machine learning/deep learning
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Internet of Things/Edge security
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Moving target defense
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Privacy preserving machine learning/deep learning
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Security and Performability of Moving Target Defenses
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Software Defined Networking security
Research impacts
- Secure and Safe networking environment
- Resilient systems and networks
- Trustworthy AI systems
Works
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2015
Journal Article
Statistical calibration and validation of mathematical model to predict motion of paper helicopter
Kim, Gil Young, Yoo, Sung Bum, Kim, Dong Young, Kim, Dong Seong and Choi, Joo Ho (2015). Statistical calibration and validation of mathematical model to predict motion of paper helicopter. Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers, A, 39 (8), 751-758. doi: 10.3795/KSME-A.2015.39.8.751
2015
Conference Publication
Security modeling and analysis of a SDN based web service
Eom, Taehoon, Hong, Jin B., Park, Jong Sou and Kim, Dong Seong (2015). Security modeling and analysis of a SDN based web service. ICA3PP International Workshops and Symposiums, Zhangjiajie, China, 18-20 November 2015. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27161-3_68
2015
Conference Publication
Scalable Network Intrusion Detection and Countermeasure Selection in Virtual Network Systems
Hong, Jin B., Chung, Chun-Jen, Huang, Dijiang and Kim, Dong Seong (2015). Scalable Network Intrusion Detection and Countermeasure Selection in Virtual Network Systems. 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Zhangjiajie Peoples R China, 18-20 November 2015. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27161-3_53
2015
Conference Publication
Towards automated generation and visualization of hierarchical attack representation models
Jia, Fangcheng, Hong, Jin B. and Kim, Dong Seong (2015). Towards automated generation and visualization of hierarchical attack representation models. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 26 - 28 October 2015. New York, NY, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM.2015.255
2015
Conference Publication
A Framework for Modeling and Assessing Security of the Internet of Things
Ge, Mengmeng and Kim, Dong Seong (2015). A Framework for Modeling and Assessing Security of the Internet of Things. 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems ICPADS, Melbourne VIC Australia, 14-17 December 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICPADS.2015.102
2014
Journal Article
A comprehensive availability modeling and analysis of a virtualized servers system using stochastic reward nets
Nguyen, Tuan Anh, Kim, Dong Seong and Park, Jong Sou (2014). A comprehensive availability modeling and analysis of a virtualized servers system using stochastic reward nets. The Scientific World Journal, 2014 165316, 1-18. doi: 10.1155/2014/165316
2014
Conference Publication
Scalable security models for assessing effectiveness of moving target defenses
Hong, Jin B. and Kim, Dong Seong (2014). Scalable security models for assessing effectiveness of moving target defenses. 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Atlanta GA, United States, 23-26 June 2014. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/DSN.2014.54
2014
Conference Publication
What vulnerability do we need to patch first?
Hong, Jin B., Kim, Dong Seong and Haqiq, Abdelkrim (2014). What vulnerability do we need to patch first?. 2014 44th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Atlanta, GA, United States, 23 - 26 June 2014. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/dsn.2014.68
2014
Journal Article
Foreword
Wada, Hiroshi and Kim, Dong Seong (2014). Foreword. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series.
2014
Conference Publication
Scalable security analysis using a partition and merge approach in an infrastructure as a service cloud
Hong, Jin B., Eom, Taehoon, Park, Jong Sou and Kim, Dong Seong (2014). Scalable security analysis using a partition and merge approach in an infrastructure as a service cloud. 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Autonomic and Trusted Computing and 2014 IEEE 14th Intl Conf on Scalable Computing and Communications and Its Associated Workshops, Denpasar, Indonesia, 9-12 December 2014. New York, NY USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom.2014.94
2013
Journal Article
Dependability and security for wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks and their applications
Kim, Dong Seong, Lim, Sunho and Zhang, Wensheng (2013). Dependability and security for wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks and their applications. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 9 (7) 505313, 505313. doi: 10.1155/2013/505313
2013
Journal Article
System resiliency quantification using non-state-space and state-space analytic models
Ghosh, Rahul, Kim, DongSeong and Trivedi, Kishor S. (2013). System resiliency quantification using non-state-space and state-space analytic models. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 116, 109-125. doi: 10.1016/j.ress.2012.12.023
2013
Conference Publication
System availability assessment using stochastic models
Trivedi, Kishor S., Kim, Dong-Seong and Ghosh, Rahul (2013). System availability assessment using stochastic models. APARM 2010, Wellington, New Zealand, December 2010. Oxford, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/asmb.951
2013
Journal Article
Modeling and analysis of software rejuvenation in a server virtualized system with live VM migration
Machida, Fumio, Kim, Dong Seong and Trivedi, Kishor S. (2013). Modeling and analysis of software rejuvenation in a server virtualized system with live VM migration. Performance Evaluation, 70 (3), 212-230. doi: 10.1016/j.peva.2012.09.003
2013
Conference Publication
Scalable attack representation model using logic reduction techniques
Hong, Jin B., Kim, Dong Seong and Takaoka, Tadao (2013). Scalable attack representation model using logic reduction techniques. 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 16 - 18 July 2013. New York, NY, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/TrustCom.2013.51
2013
Conference Publication
Performance analysis of scalable attack representation models
Hong, Jin B. and Kim, Dong Seong (2013). Performance analysis of scalable attack representation models. 28th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2013, Auckland, New Zealand, 8-10 July 2013. New York NY United States: Springer New York. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-39218-4_25
2013
Conference Publication
Scalable security model generation and analysis using k-importance measures
Hong, Jin B. and Kim, Dong Seong (2013). Scalable security model generation and analysis using k-importance measures. 9th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2013, Sydney, NSW Australia, 25 - 28 September 2013. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-04283-1_17
2013
Conference Publication
Scalable security analysis in hierarchical attack representation model using centrality measures
Hong, Jin B. and Kim, Dong Seong (2013). Scalable security analysis in hierarchical attack representation model using centrality measures. 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop (DSN-W), Budapest, Hungary, 24-27 June 2013. Piscataway, NJ United States: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society : IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. doi: 10.1109/DSNW.2013.6615507
2012
Journal Article
A survivability model in wireless sensor networks
Parvin, Sazia, Hussain, Farookh Khadeer, Park, Jong Sou and Kim, Dong Seong (2012). A survivability model in wireless sensor networks. Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 64 (12), 3666-3682. doi: 10.1016/j.camwa.2012.02.027
2012
Journal Article
Quantitative intrusion intensity assessment for intrusion detection systems
Kim, Dong Seong, Lee, Sang Min, Kim, Tae Hwan and Park, Jong Sou (2012). Quantitative intrusion intensity assessment for intrusion detection systems. Security and Communication Networks, 5 (10), 1199-1208. doi: 10.1002/sec.419
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Dan Kim is:
- Available for supervision
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Available projects
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Cyber attacks to Machine/Deep Learning Techniques and Defences
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Privacy Preserving Deep Learning Techniques
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Graphical Security Models, Metrics and Measurements
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Moving Target Defences
Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
AI based intrusion detection and response system
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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Doctor Philosophy
Advanced Moving Target Defence against AI based Cyber Attacks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Guowei Yang
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Doctor Philosophy
Automated Penetration Testing using Advanced AI Techniques
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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Doctor Philosophy
Adversarial Cyber-Attacks and Defences for In-Vehicle Networks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Naipeng Dong
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Doctor Philosophy
A comprehensive framework for automated cybersecurity assessment, mitigation, and education using graphical security models
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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Doctor Philosophy
Adversarial AI Attacks and Defenses in Intrusion Detection System for IoT
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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Doctor Philosophy
Automated Testing of Deep Learning Systems
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Naipeng Dong, Dr Guowei Yang
Completed supervision
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Security Modelling and Analysis of Internet of Things against Evolving Attacks
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Security and Performance Evaluation of Software Defined Networking adopting Moving Target Defenses
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Ryan Ko
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2024
Master Philosophy
SAGA: A Secure Auto-configurable Gateway Architecture for Smart Home
Associate Advisor
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