Summary
Junghwan Rhee is a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma whose research spans system security, distributed system debugging, virtualization, and malware detection. Based in Edmond, Oklahoma, he blends academic leadership with industrial R&D experience, including advancing from Researcher to Senior Researcher at NEC Laboratories America (2011–2020) and an earlier stint as a research intern at IBM Watson Research Center. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, an MS in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin, and a BE in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Korea University. Since 2020 he has progressed from Associate Professor to Professor at UCO, shaping curricula and mentoring the next generation of security researchers. His work sits at the intersection of practical security engineering and foundational research, addressing malware detection and the debugging challenges of distributed systems in virtualized environments.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Sciences, MS, Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea University
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Purdue University