Minwoo Jang
Ph.D. Student

Research Interests

  • Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses (e.g. Spectre, Meltdown, Invisible Speculation)
  • Microarchitectural Side Channels (e.g. Flush+Reload, Prime+Probe, MSHR Contention)
  • Secure Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design
  • Hybrid Memory and ML Accelerators (previous)

Education

  • 2017~, B.S–M.S–Ph.D. Integrated Course, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, DGIST
  • 2014~2018, Bachelor of Convergence engineering, School of Basic Science, DGIST

Hobbies

  • Tetris
  • Brewing Chinese tea

Publications

* Corresponding Author
CAL | SCI | Security
ResidualEvil: Exploiting Post-Squash MSHR Contention for Transient Execution Attacks

Minwoo Jang, Hyosang Kim, Sungju Kim, and Daehoon Kim*

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2026

CAL | SCI | Architecture Security
Nighthawk: Zero-Copy Cache Quarantine for Invisible Speculation

Minwoo Jang, Sungju Kim, and Daehoon Kim*

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2026

CAL | SCI | Architecture Memory System
RoPIM: A Processing-in-Memory Architecture for Accelerating Rotary Positional Embedding in Transformer Models

Yunhyeong Jeon, Minwoo Jang, Hwanjun Lee, Yeji Jung, Jin Jung, Jonggeon Lee, Jinin So, and Daehoon Kim*

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), 2025

Access | SCI | Architecture Security
Defending Against Flush+Reload Attack With DRAM Cache by Bypassing Shared SRAM Cache

Minwoo Jang, Seungkyu Lee, Jaeha Kung, and Daehoon Kim*

IEEE Access (Access), 2020

DAC-WIP | Major | Security
Exploiting DRAM Cache for Defending Against Flush+Reload Attack

Minwoo Jang, Seungkyu Lee, Jaeha Kung, and Daehoon Kim*

IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference WIP (DAC-WIP), 2020