ah reum kang Welcome to my homepage! I am a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York working with Professor Marina Blanton. Before joining UB, I was a student at Korea University, in Seoul, South Korea, where I obtained my Ph.D. in Information Security from Graduate School of Information Security. Between my time at graduate school and undergraduate studies, I spent four years as a software engineer at SoftCamp (a company specializing in security software development).

During my Ph.D., I worked on online game security, botnets, security of the Internet of Things (IoT), security of HTML5, and fraud detection systems. At UB, while still pursuing those topics, I also work on DNS security and privacy. More on my current projects is below.

Research Projects

  • Secure Multi-party Computation, Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Genomic Computation
  • DNS Security, Privacy, Operation and Transparency (DNS-SPOT)
  • Energy-aware security services in the Internet of Things (IOT-EASS)
  • Network science and analytics for bot detection (NSA-Bot)
  • Online game security, User behavior analysis, Fraud detection, Network science

In the Press

Recent Publications

  1. I Would Not Plant Apple Trees If the World Will Be Wiped: Analyzing Hundreds of Millions of Behavioral Records of Players During an MMORPG Beta Test to the Games
    Ah Reum Kang, Jeremy Blackburn, Haewoon Kwak, Huy Kang Kim
    In the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017.
  2. Transparency in the New gTLD Era: Evaluating the DNS Centralized Zone Data Service
    Ah Reum Kang, Seong Hoon Jeong, Steve Ko, Kui Ren, Aziz Mohaisen
    In IEEE HotWeb, 2016.
  3. Assessing DNS Privacy under Partial Deployment of Special-Use Domain Names
    Ah Reum Kang, Aziz Mohaisen
    In IEEE CNS, 2016. (extended abstract)
  4. Transparency of the new gTLD's Centralized Zone Data Service: A Measurement Study
    Ah Reum Kang, Aziz Mohaisen
    In IEEE CNS, 2016. (extended abstract)
  5. Automatic Alerts Annotation for Improving DDoS Mitigation Systems
    Ah Reum Kang, Aziz Mohaisen
    In IEEE CNS, 2016. (extended abstract)
  6. A User Study of the Effectiveness of Typosquatting Techniques
    Jeffrey Spaulding, Ah Reum Kang, Shambhu Upadhyaya, Aziz Mohaisen
    In IEEE CNS, 2016. (extended abstract)
  7. WHAP: Web-Hacking Profiling Using Case-Based Reasoning
    Mee Lan Han, Hee Chan Han, Ah Reum Kang, Byung Il Kwak, Aziz Mohaisen, Huy Kang Kim
    In IEEE CNS, 2016. (extended abstract)
  8. Towards Evaluating Domain Name System Privacy under Pervasive Adversaries
    Ah Reum Kang, Kui Ren, Aziz Mohaisen
    University at Buffalo, Technical report, 2016.
  9. Does Query Blocking Improve DNS Privacy?
    Ah Reum Kang, Kui Ren, Aziz Mohaisen
    In the 17th World Conference on Information Security and Applications (WISA), 2016.
  10. Leakage of .onion at the DNS Root: Measurements, Causes, and Countermeasures
    Aziz Mohaisen, Ah Reum Kang, Kui Ren
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016. (Accepted with revisions)
  11. A Longitudinal Analysis of .i2p Leakage in the Public DNS Infrastructure
    Seong Hoon Jeong, Ah Reum Kang, Joongheon Kim, Huy Kang Kim, Aziz Mohaisen
    ACM SGICOMM Computer Communication Review, 2016. (extended abstract; AR: 39/102 = 38.2%)
  12. Multimodal game bot detection using user behavioral characteristics
    Ah Reum Kang, Seong Hoon Jeong, Aziz Mohaisen, Huy Kang Kim
    SpringerPlus 2016. (SCIE IF: 0.982)
  13. A Statistical-based Anomaly Detection Method for Connected Cars in Internet of Things Environment
    Mee Lan Han, Jin Lee, Ah Reum Kang, Sungwook Kang, Jung Kyu Park, Huy Kang Kim
    In the 2nd International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV), 2015.
  14. Rise and Fall of Online Game Groups: Common Findings on Two Different Games
    Ah Reum Kang, Juyong Park, Jane E. Lee, Huy Kang Kim
    In SIMPLEX 2015 (with WWW 2015) – Best paper runner up!
  15. Analysis of Game Bot’s Behavioral Characteristics in Social Interaction Networks of MMORPG
    Seong Hoon Jeong, Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2015. (extended abstract; AR: 48/112 = 42.8%)
  16. Altruism in Games: Helping Others Help Themselves
    Ah Reum Kang, Hana Kim, Jiyoung Woo, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    In ACM NetGames, 2014.
  17. Moneymakers and Bartering in Online Games: The Social Network Factors
    Jane E. Lee, Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim, Juyong Park
    In the 5th Workshop on Complex Networks (CompleNet), 2014.
  18. The Contagion of Malicious Behaviors in Online Games
    Jiyoung Woo, Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2013.
  19. Loyalty or Profit? Early Evolutionary Dynamics of Online Game Groups
    Ah Reum Kang, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    In ACM NetGames, 2013.
  20. Online Game Bot Detection based on Party-play Log Analysis
    Ah Reum Kang, Jiyoung Woo, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    Elsevier Computers & Mathematics with Application, 2013. (SCI IF: 1.398)
  21. Who is Sending a Spam Email: Clustering and Characterizing Spamming Hosts
    Jiyoung Woo, Hyun Jae Kang, Ah Reum Kang, Hyukmin Kwon, Huy Kang Kim
    In the Int. Conf. on Info. Sec. and Cryp. (ICISC), 2013.
  22. Information and Moneymakers in Bartering in Online Games: The Network Factors
    Jane E. Lee, Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim, Juyong Park
    In Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), 2013.
  23. Analysis of Context Dependence in Social Interaction Networks of a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
    Seokshin Son, Ah Reum Kang, Hyun-chul Kim, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    PLoS ONE, 2012. (SCIE IF: 3.057)
  24. Chatting Pattern Based Game BOT Detection: Do They Talk Like Us?
    Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim, Jiyoung Woo
    KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS), 2012. (SCIE IF: 0.56)
  25. Modeling of Bot Usage Diffusion across Social Networks in MMORPGs
    Jiyoung Woo, Ah Reum Kang, Huy Kang Kim
    In WASA: Workshop at ACM SIGGRAPH, 2012.
  26. Multi-Relational Social Networks in a Large-Scale MMORPG
    Seokshin Son, Ah Reum Kang, Hyun-chul Kim, Ted "Taekyoung" Kwon, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2011. (extended abstract; AR: 24/86 = 27.9%)
  27. Data and Text Mining of Communication Patterns for Game Bot Detection
    Ah Reum Kang, Jiyoung Woo, Huy Kang Kim
    In the 3rd Int. Conf. on Internet (ICONI), 2011.
  28. Online Game Bot Detection based on Party-play Log Analysis
    Ah Reum Kang, Jiyoung Woo, Juyong Park, Huy Kang Kim
    In the Int. Symp. on Advances in Crypto., Sec. and App. for Future Computing, 2011.

Services

  • TPC Member: SIMPLEX 2016 (with IEEE INCP), iThings 2016
  • External reviewer: IEEE INFOCOM 2017, IEEE TDSC 2016, IEEE IJIS 2016, IEEE HotWeb 2016, ICSSA 2016, SECURECOMM 2016, WISA 2015, ICCCT 2012

Contact

Ah Reum Kang, Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of CSE - SUNY Buffalo
301C Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY, 14260-2500 USA
e-mail: ahreumka at buffalo dot edu