*Information for Prospective Students for DS group*

Please read carefully in order to be a member of my research groups.

0) If you are undergraduate students at UC.
You are always welcome to come by my office (Erskine 304) to chat with me :)

1) To be a postgraduate (PG) student.

- Before you could begin a PG study here (as a master or Ph.D. student), you would need to be formally accepted as a PG student at our university. Information about the enrollment procedure at our university, the academic and English language entry criteria, application forms etc. can be found at: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/intstud/admiss/

Information about UC's scholarships for PG students can be found at:

http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/intstud/scholarships/

*Please note that I cannot provide any funding for you unless I have external fundings.

2) To be a PG student under my supervision

- Before making any statement about me being your supervisor, I first need to get the following information:

Please MERGE the following documents into ONE Single PDF file and email to dongseong [dot] kim [at] canterbury [dot] ac [dot] nz.

I. Your C.V. (resume)

II. English Language Test score (IELTS, TOEFL, etc.) - you should meet the minimum requirement of UC.

English requirements

III. Academic transcript(s), GPA and rank in your class/department.

IV. Published (or accepted) papers (journal papers, papers in conference proceeding, technical reports, etc) if any.

V. Funding plan (self, government, external, etc).

scholarships

VI. Your research interest: please state it as specific as possible.

I am interested in ''REASSURE'' (REliability, Availability, Security, SUrvivability and REsiliency) quantification and enhancement of a variety of systems and networks.
- Intrusion Prevention, Detection, Tolerance (survivability, resiliency), and Response techniques and systems
- Security and Dependability of Cloud computing and Virtualized Data centers
- Security and survivability for critical infrastructures (cyber physical systems, e.g., Smart Grid, water distribution, SCADA, independancy analysis)
- Security modeling and Analysis using analytic models, simulation, and controlled experiments
- Security and dependability (Reliability/availability) for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

I am open to work/collaborate with any other topics not mentioned above, we can discuss possibilities if topics are interesting.

More information on my research w.r.t sub-topics is at: here

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last update: May, 2012.