About me!

• ASU Computer Science Ph.D Student
• Google Scholar

Education

• 03/2022 - Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Arizona State University (ASU) (Transferred from Hanyang University in 07/2023)
• 03/2016 - 02/2022 B.S. in Electronical Engineering, Hanyang University

Awards

• Winner (1st place) of ESWEEK 2025 “Embedded System Software Competition (ESSC)” Winner, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2025 - Carlos Beltran Quinonez, Dongha Kim, Hokeun Kim, “SST Testbed: An Extensible Platform for Experimenting Attacks and Defenses for Networked Embedded Systems” (Sep. 2025)
• ASU Graduate College Travel Award $300 (Sep. 2025)
• ASU School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) conference funding $250 (Aug. 2025)
• ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) Travel Grant $950 (Jun. 2025)
• University Graduate Fellowship (UGF) $4594 from Arizona State University (ASU) School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence (SCAI) (Spring. 2025)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) EAI SmartSP 2024 Student Travel Grants $1000 (Nov. 2024)
• Academic Achievement Award from Hanyang University (Feb. 2022)
• Full Tuition Scholarships from Hanyang University for 3 semesters (Spring, Fall 2016, Spring 2017)

Publications

Journal Articles

• Dongha Kim and Hokeun Kim, “Deterministic Modeling and Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Software”, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (Early Access), August 2025. (To be presented) in Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS) Workshop at ESWEEK 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2, 2025.

• Wonseo Choi, Dongha Kim, Sangmo Sung, Dohyung Han, Haeun Jo, Dongwook Choi, Jae-Il Jung, and Hokeun Kim, “Enhanced Wi-Fi Access Point Positioning using Hexagonal CNN with Mobile Data and Urban Information” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume: 11, Issue: 20, pp. 33820-33832, October 2024.

• Dongha Kim, Yeongbin Jo, Taekyung Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “SST v1.0.0 with C API: Pluggable security solution for the Internet of Things”, SoftwareX, vol. 22, p. 101390, May 2023.

Conference Papers

• Viraj Thakkar*, Dongha Kim*, Yingchun Lai, Hokeun Kim, and Zhichao Cao, “SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage”, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD). Berlin, Germany, June 22 - 27, 2025. (* Equally contributed lead authors.) [Talk Slides] [Poster] [Code]

• Deeksha Prahlad, Chanhee Lee, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “Personalizing Large Language Models using Retrieval Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph”, in Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW). Sydney, NSW, Australia, April 28 - May 2, 2025. [Poster] [Video] [Code] [Dataset]

• Dongha Kim, Chanhee Lee, and Hokeun Kim, “A Case Study of API Design for Interoperability and Security of the Internet of Things”, Proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP). New Orleans, LA, November 7 - 8, 2024.

• Chanhee Lee, Deeksha Prahlad, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “Work-in-Progress: On-device Retrieval Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graphs for Personalized Large Language Models”, Proceedings of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). Raleigh, NC, September 29 - October 4, 2024.

• Dongha Kim and Hokeun Kim, “Poster Abstract: Securing Edge-Based Real-Time IoT Systems”, in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’23), Istanbul, Turkiye, November 15, 2023.

• Byeong-Gil Jun, Dongha Kim, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, “Reliable Event Detection Using Time-Synchronized IoT Platforms”, in Proceedings of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023 (CPS-IoT Week ‘23), Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS), San Antonio, TX, May 9, 2023.

• Yunsang Cho, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “Performance Analysis of Federated Learning Using Flower Framework” Summer Annual Conference of The Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers (IEIE), Jeju, Korea, June 28-30, 2023.

• Youri Su, Sanghun Lee, Eunji Song, Dongha Kim, Jaeduk Han, and Hokeun Kim, “Energy-Efficient Bus Encoding Techniques for Next-Generation PAM-4 DRAM Interfaces”, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2022), Lake Tahoe, CA, October 24-26, 2022.

Competitions

• ESWEEK 2025 Embedded System Software Competition (ESSC), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2025 - Carlos Beltran Quinonez, Dongha Kim, Hokeun Kim, “SST Testbed: An Extensible Platform for Experimenting Attacks and Defenses for Networked Embedded Systems”

Teaching Experience

Arizona State University

• 2024 Fall: Teaching Assistance (TA) for CSE522 Real-Time Embedded Systems
  • Create HW and Exam problems with solutions, including grading.
  • Hold office hours and assist students with programming assignments.

Hanyang University

• 2023 Spring: Lab instructor of Embedded Systems Design
  • Lead 2-hour lab sections with exercises on Lingua-Franca framework
  • Developed new course materials from scratch

Academic Services

Secondary Reviewer

• Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC 2026)
• Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE 2023, 2024, 2026)
• Design Automation Conference (DAC 2024-2025)
• ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT 2023-2024)

Current Interest

• System Level Security
• Embedded Systems
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Large Language Models
• Blockchain

Undergraduate Projects

• Detecting Electric Kickboard On Jetson Nano
• Implement 2048 on Java