Publications

(* Corresponding author, _ My Advisee(s))

2020

1. Simon S. Woo*, "How do we Create a Fantabulous Password?", The 29th Web Conference (WWW), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020 (Accepted, BK Computer Science IF=4, Acceptance Rate=19%)
2. Simon S. Woo*, Hanbin Jang, Woojung Ji and Hyoungshick Kim, "(Short paper) I've Got Your Packages: Harvesting customers' delivery order data using package tracking number enumeration attacks", The 29th Web Conference (WWW), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020 (Accepted, BK Computer Science IF=3, Acceptance Rate=19%)
3. Jihye Woo, Ji Won Choi, Soyoon Jeon, Joon Han, Hyoungshick Kim, and Simon S. Woo*, "Tale of Two Browsers: Understanding Users' Web Browser Choices in South Korea", AsiaUSEC, 2020.
4. Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, and Simon S. Woo*, "CANTransfer -- Transfer Learning based Intrusion Detection on a Controller Area Network using Convolutional LSTM Network," The 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Brno, Czech Republic, March 2020. (Accepted, BK Computer Science IF=1)




2019

5. Jelena Mirkovic and Simon S. Woo, "Designing for fallible humans," 2019 IEEE Humans and Cyber Security (HACS) workshop in conjunction with IEEE CogMI (Cognitive Machine Intelligence), IEEE CIC (Collaboration and Internet Computing) and IEEE TPS (Trust, Privacy and Security of Intelligence Systems, and Applications) Los Angeles, California, USA, December 14, 2019. (Invited Paper)
6. Junyaup Kim, Siho Han, and Simon S. Woo*, "Poster: Classifying Genuine Face images from Disguised Face Images," 2019 IEEE International conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2019), Los Angeles, CA, USA
7. Joon Kuy Han, Hyoungshick Kim and Simon S. Woo*, "Poster: Nickel to Lego: Using Foolgle to Create Adversarial Examples to fool Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API," The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, London, UK, 2019
8. Keeyoun Kim, Byeongrak Seo, Sang-Hoon Rhee, Seungmoon Lee, and Simon S. Woo*, "Deep Learning for Blast Furnaces: Skip-Dense Layers Deep Learning Model to Predict the Remaining Time to Close Tap-holes for Blast Furnaces", CIKM'19, Beijing, China, Nov, 2019. (Acceptance rate=21%, BK Computer Science IF=3)
9. Hyeon Seong Jeon, Young Oh Bang, and Simon S. Woo*, "FakeTalkerDetect: Effective and Practical Realistic Neural Talking Head Detection with a Highly Unbalanced Datase", 10th International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding (HBU), held in conjunction with ICCV'19 Nov, 2019 - Seoul, S. Korea
10. Youjin Shin, Sangyup Lee, Shahroz Tariq, and Simon S. Woo*, "Tensor Decomposition for Anomaly Detection in Space", Workshop on Tensor Methods for Emerging Data Science Challenges (TMEDSC), held in conjunction with KDD'19 Aug 5, 2019 - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
11. Jinwoo Cho, Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, Young Geun Kim, Jeong-Han Yun, Jonguk Kim, Hyoung Chun Kim and Simon S. Woo*, "Contextual Anomaly Detection by Correlated Probability Distributions using Kullback-Leibler Divergence", 5th Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series, held in conjunction with KDD'19 Aug 5, 2019 - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
12. Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, Youjin Shin, Myeong Shin Lee, Okchul Jung, Daewon Chung, and Simon S. Woo*, "Detecting Anomalies in Space using Multivariate Convolutional LSTM with Mixtures of Probabilistic PCA", SIG KDD, Alaska, USA, 2019. (Accepted, BK Computer Science IF=4)
13. Yuri Son, Geumhwan Cho, Hyoungshick Kim and Simon S. Woo, "Understanding Users Risk Perceptions about Personal Health Records Shared on Social Networking Services", ASIACCS: The 12th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Auckland, New Zealand, 2019. (Acceptance Rate = 22.5%, BK Computer Science IF=1)
14. Pratik Musale, Duin Baek, Nuwan Werellagama, Simon S. Woo, and Bong Jun Choi, "You Walk, We Authenticate: Lightweight Seamless Authentication based on Gait in Wearable IoT Systems," IEEE Access, Early Access, 2019. (SCIE Q1 IF= 3.557)
15. Youjin Shin and Simon S. Woo*, "(Short paper) What Is in Your Password? Analyzing Memorable and Secure Passwords using a Tensor Decomposition" (Short Paper), The Web Conference (WWW), May 2019 (Acceptance Rate 19.9%, BK Computer Science 우수학회 IF=3)
16. Simon S. Woo*, Le Xiao, Ron Artstein, Elsi Kaiser, and Jelena Mrikovic “Using Episodic Memory for User Authentication,” ACM Transactions on Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), January 2019 (SCIE Q1 IF=2.1)
17. Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, Youjin Shin, Ho Young Kim, and Simon S. Woo*, "GAN is a Friend or Foe? A Framework to Detect Various Fake Face Images," ACM SAC Cyprus April 2019, (Acceptance Rate 25%, BK Computer Science 우수학회 IF=1)



2018

18. Simon S. Woo*, "Design and Evaluation of 3D CAPTCHAs", Elsevier Computers & Security, December 2018 (SCIE Q1 IF=2.86)


19. Joonkyu Han and Simon S. Woo*, "Poster: Memorability and Security of Image and Text Integrated Authentication System," The 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Puerto Rico, USA, 2018


20. Soyoon Jeon, Jihye Woo, Ji Won Choi, Hyoungshick Kim, and Simon S. Woo*, "Evaluating and Breaking Naver’s Audio CAPTCHA using Off-the-Shelf Speech-to-text APIs," Conference on Information Security and Cryptography 2017 Winter (CISC-W 2018), Seoul, Korea, 2018


21. Jihye Woo, Soyoon Jeon, Ji Won Choi, Hyoungshick Kim, and Simon S. Woo*, "Understanding Users’ Perception on Digital Certificate and Their Web Browser Usages in Korea," Conference on Information Security and Cryptography 2017 Winter (CISC-W 2018), Seoul, Korea, 2018 (Best Paper, 국보연 원장상)


22. H. Choi, J. Jeong, Simon S Woo, K. Kang, and J. Hur, "Password typographical error resilience in honey encryption", Elsevier Computers & Security, October 2018 (SCIE Q1 IF=2.86)


23. Yimin Zhu and Simon S. Woo* "Poster: Adversarial Product Review Generation with Word Replacements," 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2018), Toronto, USA, 2018


24. Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, Huy Kang Kim, and Simon S. Woo* "Detecting In-Vehicle CAN Message Attacks using Heuristics and RNNs," 3rd International workshop on Information & Operational Technology (IT & OT) security systems (IOSec 2018), co-located with 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2018), Crete, Greece, Sept 2018


25. Shahroz Tariq, Sangyup Lee, Youjin Shin, Ho Young Kim, and Simon S. Woo* "Detecting Both Machine and Human Created Fake Face Images In the Wild," 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Privacy and Security (MPS 2018), co-located with 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2018), Toronto, USA, 2018


26. Simon S. Woo* and Jelena Mirkovic "GuidedPass: Guiding users to create both more memorable and strong passwords", 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2018), Crete, Greece, Sept 2018 (Acceptance Rate 22.8%, BK우수학회 IF=2).


27. Ameya Hanesamgar, Simon S. Woo*, Chris Kanich, and Jelena Mirkovic, "Poster: Leveraging Semantic Transformation to Investigate Password Habits and Their Causes," Usenix The Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2018), Baltimore, USA, 2018


28. Keeyoung Kim and Simon S. Woo*, "When George Clooney is not George Clooney: Using GenAttack to Deceive Amazon’s and Naver’s Celebrity Recognition APIs", 33rd IFIP TC-11 SEC 2018 International Conference on Information Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP-SEC), Poznan, Poland, Sept 2018 (Acceptance Rate 36%, BK우수학회 IF=1, Best Student Paper Nominated).


29. Keeyoung Kim and Simon S. Woo*, "Generating Adversarial Images using Genetic Algorithm", The Second International Workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS2018) In conjunction with the IEEE CVPR 2018 , Salt Lake City, USA, June 2018.


30. Jusop Choi, Taekkyung Oh, William Aiken, Simon S. Woo and Hyoungshick Kim, “Poster: I can’t hear this because I am human: A novel design of audio CAPTCHA system”, The 11th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS), Incheon, Korea, 2018


31. Simon S. Woo*, "Benefits and Challenges of Long Term Self-Tracking to Prevent Lonely Deaths and Detect Signs of Life," A Short Workshop on Next Steps Towards Long Term Self Tracking at ACM SIG CHI2018, April, 2018, Montreal, Canada (pdf)


32. Ameya Hanesamgar, Simon S. Woo*, Chris Kanich, and Jelena Mirkovic, "Leveraging Semantic Transformation to Investigate Password Habits and Their Causes," ACM SIG CHI2018, April, 2018, Montreal, Canada (Acceptance Rate 25.7%, BK우수학회 IF=4)(pdf)


33. Simon S. Woo*, and Jelena Mirkovic, "Memorablity and Security of Different Passphrase Generation Methods,"Review of KIISC (정보보호학회지), Feb. 2018 (pdf)


34. Simon S. Woo*, Kyeong Joo Jung, and Bong Jun Choi, "Survey on Current Password Composition Policies,"Review of KIISC (정보보호학회지), Feb. 2018 (pdf)



2017

35. Pratik Musale, Duin Baek, Simon S. Woo, Bong Jun Choi, “Lightweight Authentication for IoT,” Proc. ACM CoNEXT, Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 2017. (Student Workshop)


36. Simon S. Woo, Wenzhi Li, and, Hyeran Jeon, “Toward Machine Generated Passwords,” Conference on Information Security and Cryptography 2017 Winter (CISC-W), Seoul, Korea, Dec. 2017 (Best paper (우수 논문상))


37. Simon S. Woo*, "Computer Vision Attacks against 3D CAPTCHAs", The First International Workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS2017) In conjunction with the IEEE CVPR 2017 , Honolulu, USA, July 2017 (pdf).


38. Simon S. Woo, Jelena Mirkovic, Ron Artstein, and Elsi Kaiser, "Life-Experience Passwords (LEPs)", Usenix The Thirteenteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2017), Santa Clara, USA, July 2017.



2016

39. Simon S. Woo* and Jelena Mirkovic. "Improving Recall and Security of Passphrases Through Use of Mnemonics", Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passwords (Passwords), Bochum, Germany, 2016 (pdf).


40. Simon S. Woo, Jelena Mirkovic, Elsi Kaiser, and Ron Artstein "Life Experience Passwords (LEPs)", The 32nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Los Angeles, 2016 (Acceptance Rate 22.8%, BK우수학회 IF=2) (pdf)


41. Simon S. Woo*, Zuyao Li, and Jelena Mirkovic, "Good Automatic Authentication Question Generation", The 9th SIGGEN International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG), Edinburgh, 2016 (pdf)


42. Simon S. Woo, Jingul Kim, Duoduo Yu, and Beomjun Kim, "Exploration of 3D Texture and Projection for New CAPTCHA Design", The 17th World Conference on Information Security Applications (WISA), Jeju, 2016 (Best Conference Paper) (pdf)



2015

43. Simon S. Woo and Harsha Manjunatha, "Empirical Data Analysis on User Privacy and Sentiment in Personal Blogs", 2nd ACM SIGIR Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Information Retrieval, Chilie, 2015 (pdf)


44. Jelena Mirkovic, Aimee Tabor, Simon S. Woo, and Portia Pusey, "Engaging Novices in Cybersecurity Competitions: A Vision and Lessons Learned at ACM Tapia 2015", 2015 USENIX Summit on Gaming, Games, and Gamification in Security Education (3GSE), D.C, 2015 (pdf)



2014

45. Simon S. Woo and Jelena Mirkovic, "Optimal application allocation on multiple public clouds", Elsevier Computer Networks, February 2014. (SCIE Q1 IF=2.52) (pdf)


46. Simon S. Woo, Jelena Mikovic, Ron Artstein, and Elsi Kaiser, "Life-Experice Passwords", Who are you?! Adventures in Authentication: ACM SOUPS-WAY Workshop, 2014, Menlo Park, CA (pdf)


47. Simon S. Woo, and B. Kim, "3D Object CAPTCHA", Information Sciences Institute Graduate Student Symposium (ISI-GSS), Nov, 2014 (Best Student Paper)


48. Simon S. Woo*, B. Kim, W. Jun, and J. Kim, "3DOC: 3D Object CAPTCHA", 23rd International World Wide Web (WWW) Conference, 2014 (Poster)


49. Simon S. Woo, Jelena Mirkovic, and Elsi Kaiser, "Life Experience-Passwords", Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, Feb, 2014 (Poster)



2011

50. Simon S. Woo*, "Analysis of Proximity-1 Space Link Interleaved Time Synchronization Protocol", IEEE Globecom 2011, Houston, TX (Acceptance rate: 36%) (pdf)



2010

51. E. Jennings, J. Segui, and Simon S. Woo*, "MACHETE: A Protocol Evaluation Tool for Space- Based Networking Architecture and Simulation", AIAA SpaceOps 2010, Huntsville, AL (pdf)


52. Simon S. Woo, David Mills, and J. Gao, "Space Time Distribution and Synchronization Protocol Development for Mars Proximity Link", AIAA SpaceOps 2010 (Invited for Book Chapter) (pdf)



2009

53. E. Jennings, R. Borgen, C. Chevalier, E. Wesley, Sam Nguyen, John Segui, Tudor Stoenescu, Shin-Ywan Wang, and Simon S. Woo, "Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Network Simulation Tool Development and Its Use Cases", AIAA, Modeling and Simulation Technologies (AIAA MST) Conference, 2009 (pdf)


54. Simon S. Woo* and Tudor Stoenescu, "Efficient File Sharing by multicast - P2P protocol using network coding and rank based peer selection",IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC) 2009-Spring, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2009 (pdf)



2008

55. Esther H. Jennings, Sam P. Nguyen, Shin-Ywan Wang, and Simon S. Woo*, "Interfacing Space Communications and Navigation Network Simulation with Distributed System Integration Laboratories (DSIL)", AIAA SpaceOps 2008 (pdf)


56. Simon S. Woo* and Mike Cheng, "Prioritized LT codes", IEEE Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2008. (pdf)


57. Simon S. Woo, Esther Jennings, and Loren Clare, "A Simulation Tool for ASCTA Microsensor Network Architecture", IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March, 2008 (pdf)



2007

58. Mike Cheng, Simon S. Woo, Kar-Ming Cheung, Sam Dolinar, and Jon Hamkins, "Improved In Situ Communications Using Network Coding", Research and Technology Development Poster session, (R&TD), Pasadena, Nov, 2007



2006

59. Simon S. Woo and Jay Gao, "CFDP Performance Over Weather-Dependent Ka-Band Channel", AIAA SpaceOps 2006, Rome, Italy (pdf)