Younggi Park

I am a CS Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Lingming Zhang. My research interests include AI for software engineering and security, aiming to build systems that fully automate the program development cycle that encompasses code generation, program testing, and patching.

In the recent days, I am focusing on automatically producing efficient and correct program patches for found bugs.

Aside from my academic pursuits, I also enjoy exploring practical techniques called “Hacking”. I personally believe that hacking is like a comprehensive art as it requires a deep understanding of diverse fields within computer science. So, study of hacking taught me a lot about program analysis, and (more importantly) thinking outside the box.