Jung Hee Cheon
{{Short description|South Korean cryptographer}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Jung Hee Cheon
| native_name = 천정희
| image = Cheon, Jung Hee.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|6|11}}
| birth_place = South Korea
| fields = Mathematics, Cryptology
| workplaces = Seoul National University
| alma_mater = KAIST
| thesis_title = The order of the reduction of a point in the Mordell-Weil group of an elliptic curve
| thesis_year = 1997
| thesis_url =
| doctoral_advisor = Sang-Geun Han
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = the CKKS scheme, the 4th generation FHE
| awards =
| website = {{URL|https://web.math.snu.ac.kr/~jhcheon/}}
}}
Jung Hee Cheon (born 1969) is a South Korean professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, the director of Industrial & Mathematical Data Analytics Research Center (IMDARC) at Seoul National University (SNU), and CEO of CryptoLab. His research interests include computational number theory, cryptology, and information security. He is one of the co-inventors of HEaaN.
Education and career
Born in South Korea, Cheon received his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Science, and Ph.D, all in Mathematics from KAIST in 1991, 1993, and 1997, respectively.
Before joining SNU, he was a senior member of research staff at ETRI (1997–2000), a visiting scientist at Brown University (2000), and an assistant professor at ICU (2000-2003).
Dr. Jung Hee Cheon is also one of the inventors of braid cryptography,[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-44598-6_10 New Public-Key Cryptosystem Using Braid Groups] a group-based cryptography scheme, and was previously known for his work on an efficient algorithm for the strong DH problem.[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11761679_1 Security Analysis of the Strong Diffie-Hellman Problem]
Cheon is actively working on homomorphic encryptions and their applications, including machine learning,[https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12920-018-0401-7 Logistic regression model training based on the approximate homomorphic encryption] homomorphic control systems,[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8325268 Toward a Secure Drone System: Flying With Real-Time Homomorphic Authenticated Encryption] and DNA computation on encrypted data.[http://www.humangenomeprivacy.org/2020/agenda.html IDASH PRIVACY & SECURITY WORKSHOP 2020 - secure genome analysis competition]
Awards
- 2023: Fellow of the IACR{{Cite web |url=https://iacr.org/fellows/2023/cheon.html|title=Jung Hee Cheon, 2023 IACR Fellow}}
- 2022: Order of Service Merit (Green Stripes)[https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20220831057600002 내달 1일 통계의날 기념식…"현실변화 반영한 새로운 통계 필요"]
- 2022: Member of the KAST[https://www.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=50722 과학기술한림원 정회원에 천정희·김선정·김형범 교수 등 27명]
- 2021: PKC Test-of-Time award[https://www.iacr.org/meetings/pkc/test_of_time_award/ PKC Test-of-Time Award, 2021]
- 2020: Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist[https://www.asianscientist.com/as100/#2020 Asian Scientist 100]
- 2019: POSCO TJ Park Prize, POSCO TJ Park Foundation{{Cite web |url=https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/ngo/882057.html|title=Posco science prize|date=13 February 2019 }}{{cite web |url=https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=266617 |title= 2019 POSCO TJ Park Prize |author= Nam Hyun-Woo |date= 5 May 2019 |website= The Korea Times |publisher= |access-date= 23 November 2023 |quote= }}
- 2018: The Scientist of the month by Korean government{{Cite web |url=https://dl.dongascience.com/magazine/view/M201901N007 |script-title=ko:"천정희 교수 이 달의 과학인 상 수상", math news |access-date=2021-09-07 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221041659/https://dl.dongascience.com/magazine/view/M201901N007 |url-status=dead }}
- 2015: The best paper award in Eurocrypt[https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/eurocrypt_2015/program.shtml 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques Eurocrypt 2015 April 26 to 30, Sofia, Bulgaria]
- 2008: The best paper award in Asiacrypt[https://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2008/ 14th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology & Information Security AsiaCrpyt 2008 Dec 7 to 11, 2008, Melbourne, Australia]
Service
Dr. Jung Hee Cheon has served as program chair and co-chair for multiple conferences, including ICISC 2008, ANTS-XI, Asiacrypt 2015/2016, MathCrypt 2013/2018/2019/2021, and PQC2021/2022.{{Cite web |url=http://www.icisc.org/icisc08/asp/02.html |title=11th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology ICISC 2008 Dec 3-5, 2008, Seoul, Korea |access-date=2015-04-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071032/http://www.icisc.org/icisc08/asp/02.html |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}[https://archive.today/20150404110820/http://open.nims.re.kr/new/event/event.php?workType=home&Idx=113 MathCrypt 2013 July 4 to 5, 2013, Busan, Korea][https://ants2014.kookmin.ac.kr/ 11th Algorithmic Number Theory Symposium ANTS-XI August 6 to 11, 2014, GyeongJu, Korea] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928025512/https://ants2014.kookmin.ac.kr/ |date=September 28, 2013 }}[https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~sgal018/AC2015/index.html 21st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security AsiaCrpyt 2015 Nov 29-Dec 3, 2015, Auckland, New Zealand]{{Cite web |url=https://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2016/www.asiacrypt2016.org/indexc583.html?page_id=28 |title=AsiaCrypt2016}}{{Cite web |url=https://crypto.iacr.org/2018/affevents/mathcrypt/page.html |title=MathCrypt2018}}{{Cite web |url=http://imdarc.math.snu.ac.kr/MathCrypt2019 |title=MathCrypt2019}}{{Cite web |url=http://lab.algonics.net/temp/mathcrypt/mathcrypt.html |title=MathCrypt2021}}{{Cite web |url=https://pqcrypto2021.kr/ |title= PQC2021}}{{Cite web |url=https://2022.pqcrypto.org/ |title= PQC2022}} He was one of the two invited speakers at Asiacrypt 2020.[https://asiacrypt.iacr.org/2020/invitedtalks.php Asiacrypt 2020 invited talks] He also contributes as an editor of the Journal of Cryptology.{{Cite web |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/145/editorial-board |title=Journal of Cryptology editorial board |access-date=2025-03-07 |archive-date=2025-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250307020547/https://link.springer.com/journal/145/editorial-board |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.math.snu.ac.kr/bbs/page.php?hid=professor Faculty page] at Seoul National University Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Category:20th-century South Korean mathematicians
Category:21st-century South Korean mathematicians