Taesoo Kim
Professor & Vice President, Georgia Tech & Microsoft
Professor & Vice President, Georgia Tech & Microsoft
Taesoo Kim is a Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) and the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Georgia Tech, as well as Vice President at Microsoft. Taesoo leads Team Atlanta, which won first place in the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a competition to build autonomous cyber reasoning systems that detect and remediate software vulnerabilities in open source projects, earning a total award of $6 million prize. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award (2018), the Internet Defense Prize (2015), and several best paper/artifact awards at premier venues such as SOSP’21, USENIXSecurity’18, and EuroSys’17. Taesoo holds a BS from KAIST (2009), an SM (2011), and PhD (2014) from MIT.