Younghee Park

Younghee Park

Younghee Park
Associate Professor
Email: younghee.park@sjsu.edu
Office: ENG 263
Personal Website
 
Research Interests: Cybersecurity, AI Security, IoT Security, SDN/NFV, Blockchain, Biometric Security, Malware Detection, Security in Autonomous Vehicles, and Security in CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems).
 
Research Papers: Google Scholar
 
Funded Project Lists since 2020
Here is a recent list of projects. Note that you can check the full list on my personal project website. I have led more than 35 projects funded by the government and industry.
 
  • (Google) PI, "Fuzzing the Physical World to Identify Environmental Threats to AI-Based Autonomous Systems", supported by Google from Sep. 1, 2023 - June 30, 2025. (This research has collaborated with Alvaro A. Cardenas  at UC Santa Cruz.
  • (NSF) co-PI, "SaTC-EDU: Improving computer forensic curricula through hands-on hardware and software training and practical experience processing evidence from active criminal cases," supported by NSF, August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2026
  • (NSF) PI, "REU Site: Undergraduate Research Experience for Women in Machine Learning-based Cybersecurity," supported by NSF, April 1, 2023 - March 31, 2026
  • (ODNI) PI/co-PI, “National Intelligence Community,” at Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence funded by the Office for the Director of National Intelligence, 09/2020 - 08/2024.
  • (DoE) Senior Personnel for the DoE project ($5M), "Increasing Hispanic Student Success in STEM" at SJSU supported by the Department of Education (DoE). (Other Partner Institutes: San José City College, Evergreen Valley College, and Gavilan College), August 2021 – August 2026.
  • (NSF) Senior Personnel, “ADVANCE Partnership: Kindling Inter-university Networks for Diverse (KIND) Engineering Faculty Advancement in the California State University System” supported by NSF, 08/11/21 – 08/31/21 (1.25M)
  • (NSF) Lead PI, “SaTC: Enhancing Security Education through Transiting Research on Security in Emerging Network Technologies,” funded by NSF, NSF DGE Award #1723804, 09/2017 – 08/2020.
  • (NSF) Co-PI, "Creating a Community Infrastructure for Interoperable Emergency Connectivity by using SDN" (NSF Award ID: 1637371), 08/15/16-12/31/18

 

Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, SJSU, San Jose CA 08/2019 – Present
  • Associate Chair, Computer Engineering, SJSU, San Jose CA 05/2023 - Current
  • CMPE Program Director at Computer Engineering, SJSU 05/2021 – 05/2023
  • Vice Chair, IEEE Computer Society, Santa Clara Chapter 01/2021 – 12/2021
  • President/Founder, Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Institute 01/2020 - Present
  • Visiting Professor, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose CA USA 07/2019 – 08/2020
  • Cybersecurity certificate coordinator in Computer and Software Engineering 04/2016 - Present
  • Off-Campus Academic Program Coordinator (APC) for Cybersecurity Programs at SJSU and Cisco Cybersecurity Programs 08/2018 – 01/2020
  • Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering, SJSU, San Jose CA USA 08/2013 – 07/2019
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 08/2012 – 06/2013
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University, New York, USA 01/2012 – 01/2013
  • Research Assistant, Computer Science, North Carolina State University 05/2004 – 12/2011
  • Research Staff, National Security Research Institute (NSR) in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon, South Korea 02/2003 – 09/2003

 

Teaching Courses

  • CMPE 132 Information Security
  • CMPE 130 Advanced Data Structure
  • CMPE 180 Individual Studies
  • CMPE 189 Special Topics in Computer Engineering (Cybersecurity Clinics with HCI)
  • CMPE 210 Software-defined Networks and Network Functions Virtualization
  • (SDN/NFV)
  • CMPE 207 Networking Programming and Applications
  • CMPE 209 Network Security
  • CMPE 219 Cybersecurity Clinics with HCI
  • CMPE 299A/B Master Thesis I/II
  • CMPE 295A/B Master Project
  • CMPE 298i Computer/Software Engineering Internship
  • CMPE 297 Special Topics in Computer/Software Engineering (Advanced IoT Security)
  • CMPE 297 Special Topics (Software Defined Data Centers)

 

Professional Services

  • Journal review: IEEE TNSM, IEEE Computer, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE TIFS,  IEEE Cloud Computing, TDSC, IEEE/ACM ToN, IEEE System, IEEE communication magazine, ACM Trans. Security & Privacy, Elsevier COMNET, Elsevier Computer & Security, etc. 
  • Conference Committees: IEEE ICCCN, ACM ASIACCS, IEEE IPCCC, IEEE MASS, IEEE SVCC (PC Chairs and Founder), IEEE Bigdataservice, IEEE DAPPCON (PC Chairs and Founder), IEEE SDN/NFV, IEEE TRUST, etc.