Yoon In-soo, a professor at KAIST, advances to the final of the ‘AI Cyber Challenge’.

Members of ‘Team Atlanta’ are taking a commemorative photo. (Provided by KAIST)/News1,
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, “(Daejeon=News1) Reporter Kim Tae-jin = The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on the 21st that the union team ‘Team Atlanta,’ which includes Professor Yoon In-soo’s research lab in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, has been selected as the only team from a domestic university to advance to the finals of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cyber Challenge scheduled to be held in August 2025.”,
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, “‘Team Atlanta’ is a union team of KAIST, Samsung Research, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), and Georgia Institute of Technology, with members mainly from the research lab of Professor Kim Tae-soo of Georgia Institute of Technology who is currently working as an executive at Samsung Research.”,
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, “The team name originates from the city of Atlanta in the United States where Georgia Institute of Technology is located.”,
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, “Professor Yoon In-soo of KAIST in Team Atlanta is a world-renowned professor in white-hat hacking, having won first place twice at the world’s top hacking competition ‘DEF CON CTF’ and received awards at the U.S. hacking competition ‘Pwn2Own 2020.'”,
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, “Professor Yoon has also been consistently presenting research at top security conferences academically, and has been recognized for the excellence of his research by winning the Best Paper Award at the international conferences ‘USENIX Security 2018’ and ‘USENIX OSDI 2018.'”,
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, “The AI Cyber Challenge is a competition where each team’s AI-based Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) competes, with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) presenting problems involving real software such as Linux with past vulnerabilities or artificial vulnerabilities, and each team’s CRS automatically analyzing and identifying vulnerabilities in the software and performing patch work.”,
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, “DARPA then evaluated each CRS by considering factors such as the number and diversity of vulnerabilities discovered, and the accuracy of the patches.”,
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, “In the preliminary round where a total of 91 teams registered globally and 39 teams participated, Team Atlanta was selected as one of the 7 teams to advance to the finals.”,
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, “Team Atlanta’s CRS also achieved results in discovering new vulnerabilities unintentionally in the famous software SQLite3 presented in the preliminary round.”,
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, “This demonstrates the potential for innovation brought by AI in the security field and is evaluated as an important achievement that is in line with the goal of the AI Cyber Challenge.”,
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, “As a result of this, Team Atlanta will receive research funding of $2 million (approximately 2.7 billion won) and will compete in the final competition held in August 2025 at DEF CON to determine the ultimate winner.”,
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, “Professor Yoon In-soo commented, ‘I am very pleased to advance to the finals with good results in a competition we have been preparing for a long time.’ He also said, ‘I believe this result demonstrates that South Korea’s security research capabilities, including KAIST, have reached an excellent level globally.'”,
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, “He added, ‘In the next year, we will try more innovative and proactive methods, lead innovation in the integration of AI and security, and do our best to win this competition.'”]