Yeongjin Jang
Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYeongjin Jang is a staff research scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in systems security, automated vulnerability discovery, and GenAI security and privacy. Currently at Google DeepMind, he focuses on preventing misuse of AI models in cyberattacks, building on prior work at Samsung Research America where he led generative-AI-driven tools that found and helped patch vulnerabilities in Java open-source projects. His background spans static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, exploit development, trusted execution environments, and architectural side-channel research from both academic (PhD, Georgia Tech; assistant professor at Oregon State) and industry perspectives. He was a core contributor to a DARPA/ARPA-H AIxCC-winning team and has practical product-facing experience building secure apps and sandboxing solutions. Based in Mountain View, he combines rigorous research with hands-on engineering to translate cutting-edge security ideas into deployable defenses.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (8)
science10
computer-science10
react10
ranking10
exploit2
gdb1
python1
pwntools1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
blue9057/config
Sep 2014 - Jan 2022
Contributions:79 commits, 108 pushes in 7 years 5 months
idforweb/idforweb.github.io
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:320 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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