Rate My Professor Kyu Lee

Kyuin Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computer Information Systems and Information System Security in the Department of Information Science & Technology at the University of Houston. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016. Lee directs the UH Smart Systems Security Lab, focusing on practical security solutions for smart systems. His research specializations include embedded systems security, Internet-of-Things security, and novel authentication and pairing methods for wireless devices using ambient physical signals such as power line noise, vibrations, and electromagnetic radiation. He contributes to the Cybersecurity graduate program and the Computer Information Systems undergraduate program.

Lee has published several papers in prestigious venues. Key publications include 'Voltkey: Continuous secret key generation based on power line noise for zero-involvement pairing and authentication' (2019, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, co-authors N. Klingensmith, S. Banerjee, Y. Kim), 'Syncvibe: Fast and secure device pairing through physical vibration on commodity smartphones' (2018, IEEE 36th International Conference on Computer Design, co-authors V. Raghunathan, A. Raghunathan, Y. Kim), 'Ivpair: Context-based fast intra-vehicle device pairing for secure wireless connectivity' (2020, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless & Mobile Networks, co-authors N. Klingensmith, D. He, S. Banerjee, Y. Kim), 'Aerokey: Using ambient electromagnetic radiation for secure and usable wireless device authentication' (2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, co-authors Y. Yang, O. Prabhune, A.L. Chithra, J. West, K. Fawaz, N. Klingensmith et al.), 'Moonshine: An online randomness distiller for zero-involvement authentication' (2021, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, co-authors J. West, S. Banerjee, Y. Kim, G.K. Thiruvathukal, N. Klingensmith), and 'Pedro: Secure pedestrian mobility verification in v2p communication using commercial off-the-shelf mobile devices' (2021, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy, co-authors Y. Yang, Y. Kim, K. Fawaz). These works address secure connectivity challenges in IoT, vehicular, and pedestrian environments.