Hi! I am Seungju Lee,

A Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University working on network security and privacy. I am advised by Professor Prateek Mittal. I am particularly interested in the intersection of QUIC with security and privacy. My work has been recognized by the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award. For the first two years of my graduate studies, I was supported by the Global Korea Scholarship for Study Abroad.

I received my Bachelor’s degree from the College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University where I majored in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. I wrote senior theses for each major advised by Professors Wan Choi (ECE) and Myungjoo Kang (Math). I also worked with Professors Hyungbo Shim (ECE) and Seongcheol Kim (ECE) as an undergraduate intern. The interdisciplinary nature of the College of Liberal Studies also led me to work on an independent research project on analyzing facial expressions in Korean election posters with Professor Yunkyu Sohn (Sociology).

Outside of research, I am a Student Ambassador for Princeton University Concerts and an active participant of a wide variety of events on/around campus.

News

[Nov ‘25] I am serving on the AEC at USENIX Security ‘26.
[Oct ‘25] I am serving on the PC at FOCI ‘26.
[Oct ‘25] QUICstep has won the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at PETS ‘26!
[Oct ‘25] I will be giving a talk on QUICstep at the MadS&P Seminar in the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
[Aug ‘25] I will be participating in the inaugural IMC ‘25 Student Workshop to present my early stage work on fingerprinting QUIC clients.
[Aug ‘25] QUICstep has been accepted to PETS ‘26 in cycle 1. It is one of 3/144 submissions accepted after round 2.