Jung Hee Cheon (born 1969) is a South Korean professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the director of Industrial & Mathematical Data Analytics Research Center (IMDARC) at Seoul National University (SNU), and CEO of CryptoLab. His research interests include computational number theory, cryptology, and information security. He is one of the co-inventors of HEaaN.
Education and career Born in South Korea, Cheon received his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D, all in Mathematics from KAIST in 1991, 1993, and 1997, respectively.
Before joining SNU, he was a senior member of research staff at ETRI (1997–2000), a visiting scientist at Brown University (2000), and an assistant professor at ICU (2000-2003).
Dr. Jung Hee Cheon is also one of the inventors of braid cryptography,New Public-Key Cryptosystem Using Braid Groups a group-based cryptography scheme, and was previously known for his work on an efficient algorithm for the strong DH problem.Security Analysis of the Strong Diffie-Hellman Problem
Cheon is actively working on homomorphic encryptions and their applications, including machine learning,Logistic regression model training based on the approximate homomorphic encryption homomorphic control systems,Toward a Secure Drone System: Flying With Real-Time Homomorphic Authenticated Encryption and DNA computation on encrypted data.IDASH PRIVACY & SECURITY WORKSHOP 2020 - secure genome analysis competition
Awards 2023: Fellow of the IACR 2022: Order of Service Merit (Green Stripes)내달 1일 통계의날 기념식…"현실변화 반영한 새로운 통계 필요" 2022: Member of the KAST과학기술한림원 정회원에 천정희·김선정·김형범 교수 등 27명 2021: PKC Test-of-Time awardPKC Test-of-Time Award, 2021 2020: Asian Scientist 100, Asian ScientistAsian Scientist 100 2019: POSCO TJ Park Prize, POSCO TJ Park Foundation 2018: Scientist of the Month, Ministry of Science and ICT and National Research Foundation of Korea 2015: The best paper award in Eurocrypt34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques Eurocrypt 2015 April 26 to 30, Sofia, Bulgaria 2008: The best paper award in Asiacrypt14th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology & Information Security AsiaCrpyt 2008 Dec 7 to 11, 2008, Melbourne, Australia
Service Dr. Jung Hee Cheon has served as program chair and co-chair for multiple conferences, including ICISC 2008, ANTS-XI, Asiacrypt 2015/2016, MathCrypt 2013/2018/2019/2021, and PQC2021/2022.11th Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-XI August 6 to 11, 2014, GyeongJu, Korea 21st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security AsiaCrpyt 2015 Nov 29-Dec 3, 2015, Auckland, New Zealand He was one of the two invited speakers at Asiacrypt 2020.Asiacrypt 2020 invited talks He also contributes as an editor of the Journal of Cryptology.
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External links Faculty page at Seoul National University Department of Mathematical Sciences