Seonghun Son advancing hardware and systems security
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Author: Cyclone Engineering
Award Title: Advancing Hardware and Systems Security
Award Category: Recognition Award
Award Description: ECpE grad student Seonghun Son (Hun) is advancing hardware and systems security with papers at top-tier conferences and industry recognition. In joint work with his advisor Dr. Berk Gulmezoglu, Hun’s paper was accepted to ASPLOS 2025 with a 19 percent rate. He made a connection with Purdue University and discovered security vulnerabilities in AR and VR devices; this work was accepted to NDSS 2026. Seonghun also received a Meta Bug Bounty in June 2025 for reporting AR/VR vulnerabilities in Meta’s AR/VR devices. Moreover, he won the Best Poster Award at the Midwest Security Workshop in October 2024 by presenting AI AI-based mitigation method. Son served as a long-term former tutor for the CyMath program at Iowa State.
- S. Son, D. Moghimi, and B. Gulmezoglu, “SMaCk: Efficient Instruction Cache Attacks via Self-Modifying Code Conflicts”, Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, (ASPLOS), 2025 (acceptance rate: 137/720=19%)
- S. Son, C Mukherjee, RM Aburas, B Gulmezoglu, ZB Celik, “Side-channel Inference of User Activities in AR/VR Using GPU Profiling”, The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 2026 (acceptance rate ~ 16%)
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Submitted by: Namrata Vaswani