Prof. Jaewook Lee, awared a 10-year Most Frequently Cited Paper Award
- Paper about the circuit technology which generates secret key for computer security … applies to IoT of Samsung Electronics


▲ Prof. Jaewook Lee of Seoul National University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
 

Seoul National University (Dean Kunwoo Lee) announced that Prof. Jaewook Lee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was awarded 10-Year Most Frequently Cited Paper Award on IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (hereafter VLSI symposium), which is the best symposium in the field of semiconductor field design.

VLSI symposium is the most prestigious academic conference in the field of semiconductor circuit design, which is organized by the USA IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the largest academic group in the IT field. This award was awarded to the most cited papers of over 900 papers published in the last 10 years from 2000 to 2009, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the conference.

The awarded paper, which was published in the June 204 VLSI Symposium by Prof. Lee as the first author, “A Technique to Build a Secret Key in Integrated Circuits for Identification and Authentication Applications”, was cited more than 1,000 times. The paper is about the circuit technology that generates ‘Physical Unclonable Function (PUF)’, which is a secret key that can not be duplicated for computer security. The technology has been widely used for RFID tag for camera activation of Canon, Japan and Samsung IoT processor for security enhancement.

Prof. Lee said “It is a very glorious achievement as a researcher. I thank all the researchers from all over the world who have contributed to the further development of the PUF technology through subsequent research.”

Meanwhile, the awards ceremony will take place at the ceremony of the 30th anniversary of the VLSI symposium held in Kyoto, Japan on June 6.