Hello, my name is Minsun Shim. I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at University of California, Irvine. My advisor is Prof. Zhou Li.

My current research focus is Agent Privacy & Security, where I study privacy and security risks in LLM agents, with a focus on principled defenses such as information flow control. I also have a prior experience in large-scale network security measurement.

Before joining UC Irvine, I received my Master’s degree in Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC), and was part of the STEEL lab in USC/ISI, advised by Prof. Jelena Mirkovic. Also, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Security at Seoul Women’s University (SWU).


News

  • Sep. 2025: Started my PhD journey at UC Irvine!

Publications

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Confuse the Model, Control the Flow: Understanding and Mitigating Privacy Leakage from LLM Agents with Information Flow Control

Minsun Shim, Ramisha Raida Karim, Ruthwik Jakkula, Kaiwen Zhou, Xin Liu, Xin Eric Wang, Zhou Li

Preprint, 2026

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Intelligent Detection of IoT Botnets Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Jiyeon Kim, Minsun Shim, Seungah Hong, Yulim Shin, Eunjung Choi

Applied Sciences, 2020

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CNN-Based Network Intrusion Detection against Denial-of-Service Attacks

Jiyeon Kim, Jiwon Kim, Hyunjung Kim, Minsun Shim, Eunjung Choi

Electronics, 2020

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Awards and Scholarships

  • UC Irvine Graduate Dean’s Recruitment Fellowship (2025)
  • KOFAC Undergraduate Research Award (2021)
  • KISA K-Cyber security challenge Award (2020)