Jihye Kim M.Sc.

Introduction:

Jihye's research addresses real-world challenges in network security, with a particular focus on protecting the Internet and its critical infrastructure against evolving DDoS threats. Her work focuses on analyzing vulnerabilities in core Internet protocols (e.g., NTP, DNS, HTTP/S) and exploring how emerging technologies can be leveraged to develop "Protocol-aware and adaptive DDoS defense framework."  Prior to her academic career, she served in various leadership and operational roles in the cyber domain within the Republic of Korea Army, including as a full-time lecturer (assistant professor) at the Korea Army Academy. She holds dual master’s degrees in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School and the Korea National Defense University.

Seminar/Bachelor/Master Thesis Topics:

Cross-dataset DDoS attack profiling

  - Profiling DDoS attacks across real-world datasets (including military infrastructure)

  - Temporal-, protocol-, and target-level analysis

NTP DDoS attacks and defenses

  - Attack taxonomy and real-world measurement analysis

  - Implementation and evaluation of XDP/eBPF filters for NTP DDoS mitigation

DNS DDoS attacks and defenses

  - Design of XDP/eBPF filters for DNS DDoS mitigation

  - DNS abuse detection using LLMs   

    > Attack taxonomy and synthetic traffic generation framework

    > Integration of DNS Abuse Domain Intelligence

    > Traffic feature clustering for attack pattern discovery 

    > Model comparison and evaluation

If you have a topic idea that aligns with my research interests, I’d be happy to discuss and support your work. 

Publications:

Please refer to my ORCID profile.