Jinwoo Kim

I was born in Seoul, South Korea, in one of the very cold early mornings of January, 1967. My first visit to the United States was during summer break in my college freshman year when NY Mets were having fantastic season with Strawberry and Gooden. Yes, it was 1986 when they won the World Series. I have become diehard Mets fan since then and still waiting for another great season for them. Sorry, Yankee fans.
Anyway, I first came to Los Angeles that summer and traveled all the way to New York and went down south to Florida and headed north to Niagara Falls. I felt so many things during those 2 months and decided to come to Big Apple once I finish my undergraduate program.
After I received my BS degree majoring in Computer Science and Statistics at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, I came to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University to continue my study. After I got the Master's degree in Computer Science at NYU, I decided to continue my study in the PhD program. I met my PhD advisor, Dr. Palem, at the ReaCT-ILP (Real Time Compilation and Instruction Level Parallel Processing) Lab at NYU and had a wonderful time doing research with great faculties and colleagues.
I remember Christmas-eve of 1999 was unseasonably warm and it was a turning point in my life. I drove down to Atlanta, GA that night to join Dr. Palem opening an exciting new research center called CREST(Center for Research on Embedded Systems and Technology) at Georgia Institute of Technology. I spent three and half years in Atlanta conducting research funded by Department of Defense, HP labs and State of Georgia and received my doctoral degree in computer science from Georgia Tech at May, 2003.
I joined Mathematics and Computer Science Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice as an assistant professor, September, 2003 after I found out exciting new graduate program in Forensic Computing at the College. Computer crime and digital evidence together pose the most vexing technological challenge facing law enforcement and security agencies today and my current research interest include digital forensics, security in embedded systems and network security.