I'm Taeyeon Kim, known as Aplace.
Currently in senior of Computer Science & Engineering Department @ POSTECH.
- โ๏ธ Reverse engineering (Mainly) and system hacking
- โ Symbolic & Concolic Execution
- ๐ค Compilers!
- โ๏ธ Code analysis & rewriting for reducing potential vulnerability.
- ๐ฆน Motion capture acting & engineering.
- ๐ง gdb scripting and plugins to speed-up binary analysis.
Ongoing experiences are marked as BOLD font.
- 2024.09 ~ : Undergrad. Research intern at POSTECH CompSecLab
- 2025.02 ~ 2025.06: [CSED499I - Research Project] CFG Analysis Based Open-Source Library Vulnerability Management
- 2024.06 ~ 2024.06: Internship at AUTOCRYPT
- Developed OP-TEE OS fuzzer.
- 2024.02 ~ : Member of G-POS, the game development club in POSTECH.
- 2023.10 ~ 2024.10: President of PLUS
- 2022.09 ~ : Member of PLUS, the cybersecurity researching club in POSTECH.
- 2021.03 ~ 2022.02: Vice President of MAD (AI study group @ Jeonbuk Science High School)
- Held seminars.
- Data analysis project: Relation between amount of leftover foods and name of school meal menu.
- 2019.03 ~ 2022.02: Member of CRACK (Developer's club and Algorithm study club @ Jeonbuk Science High School)
- Developed student's board app.
- 2025 DEF CON CTF Quals
Cold Fusion, 8th Place - 2025 SSU CTF
PLUS, 2nd place ๐ฅ - 2024 HITCON CTF
Cold Fusion, 6th Place - Hack The Drone 2024 Final
CompSec, Technical Award - 2024 POSTECH-KAIST Science War
PLUS, 2nd Place ๐ฅ - Hack The Drone 2024 Qualifier
CompSec, 2nd Place ๐ฅ - 2024 DEF CON CTF
Cold Fusion, 9th Place - .HACK 2024
Aplace, Finalist - 2024 DEF CON CTF Quals
Cold Fusion, 6th Place - LINE CTF 2024
Cold Fusion, 7th Place - 2023 HITCON CTF
ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จํธ๋ชจ์ฐ, 4th Place - Balsn CTF 2023
PLUS :flag_kr:, 8th Place - 2023 POSTECH-KAIST Science War
PLUS, 2nd Place ๐ฅ - 2023 HITCON CTF Quals
ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จํธ๋ชจ์ฐ, 6th Place - SSTF 2023
Cy + Kr, 3rd Place ๐ฅ - Hacktheon 2023
์ธ์ข ์ฒญ์ฌํต๊ทผ๋ฒ์คํํฌ๋น๋ฐ, Finalist


