I am a first-year PhD student in CSE at the University of Michigan, under the guidance of Prof. Paul Grubbs in the Applied Cryptography Group. My research interest lies at applying cryptography in systems to enhance security and privacy; specifically, I am interested in secure messaging and zero-knowledge proof.

Before diving into a PhD program, I worked three and half years in the software industry. I was a software engineer at Kakao Corporation, the largest social media company in South Korea with 60M+ users. Additionally, I also worked as a researcher at Samsung SDS Blockchain Research Lab.

I received a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and B.A. in History Education from Seoul National University in 2020.