Prof. Heejo Lee

Professor

Short Biography

Heejo Lee is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea, and the director of Center for Software Security and Assurance (CSSA). Before joining Korea University, he was at AhnLab, Inc. as a CTO from 2001 to 2003. From 2000 to 2001, he was a Postdoctorate Researcher at the Department of Computer Science and CERIAS at Purdue University. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at CyLab/CMU.

Dr. Lee received his B.S., M.S., Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH, Pohang, Korea. Dr. Lee serves as an editor of IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Journal of Communications and Networks, and International Journal of Network Management. He has been working on the consultation of the cyber security in the Philippines (2006), Uzbekistan (2007), Vietnam (2009), Myanmar (2011), Costa Rica (2013) and Cambodia (2015). He is a recipient of the ISC^2 ISLA award and got the most prestigious recognition of the asia-pacific community service star in 2016.

The IoTcube open platform has been developed from 2015 to enable non-security professionals to analyze security vulnerabilities professionally, which is available freely at https://iotcube.net. As an enterprise solution of IoTcube, Labrador detects the open source components of target software and examines security vulnerabilities and license violations, and provides the management of software bill of materials (SBoM). He is a founding member and co-CEO of Labrador Labs Inc., which is a spin off of CSSA, Korea University.

Professional Activities

  • Advisory Member of Korea Internet & Security Agency (2004~)
  • Advisory Committee Member for Digital Forensics, Korea Supreme Prosecutor's Office (2007~)
  • Advisory Committee Member, Korea National Police Agency (2018~)
  • Member of Internet Intrusion Response Technology Research Center, ITRC (2004~2011)
  • Technical Committee on Nat'l Planning for Cyber Attack Responses, 2003
  • Consultant of Electronic Arts (EA Games), 2005

Recent education and conference service records