Profile
Chung-Kuan Chen is currently the security research director in CyCraft, and responsible for organizing the research team, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Soochow Uiniversity, Taiwan. He earned his PHD degree of Computer Science and Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU). His research focuses on cyber attack and defense, machine learning, software vulnerability, malware and program analysis. He tries to utilize machine learning to assist malware analysis and threat hunting, and build automatic attack and defense systems. He has published several academic journal and conference papers, and has been involved in many large research projects from digital forensic, incident response to malware analysis. He also dedicates to security education. Founder of NCTU hacker research clubs, he trained students to participate in world-class security contests, and has experience of participating DEFCON CTF (2016 in HITCON Team and 2018 as coach in BFS team). He organized the BambooFox Team to join some bug bounty projects and discover some CVEs in COTS software and several vulnerabilities in campus websites. Besides, he has presented technical presentations in technique conferences, such as BlackHat, HITCON, CHITB, RootCon, CodeBlue, JSAC, FIRST and VXCON. As an active member in Taiwan security community, he is the chairman of HITCON review committee as well as director of Association of Hacker In Taiwan, and member of CHROOT - the top private hacker group in Taiwan.